Tabolcloth
Tabol Brewing

Franconian style Volbier.

Our version, as always, utilizes a single decoction mash process, and natural carbonation. German breweries tend to use malt from as close to their facility as possible, if they don’t malt their grain in house, so the natural choice was to utilize Virginia grown grain.

We hopped this amber lager with Spalter Select & Saphir, giving it perhaps a little more hop aroma than what many of the German-brewed examples express. Finally, we fermented ‘Tabolcloth’ cold and slow with one of our favorite lager yeasts; the once lost Franconian strain, lending it a softness that we feel is perfectly suited for malt driven lagers. We get notes of apricot preserves spread over toasted rye bread, a crisp fall breeze, graham crackers, hiking through the Upper Franconia countryside, pretzel crust & blurry evenings at bierkellers.