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🚛 KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ | 5.2% | ITALIAN PILSNER | deVine Cellars Collaboration
Ten-four, good buddy. Last year we were Lookin’ Back on Track. This year there’s only one direction, and it’s forward.
Our annual collab with the legends at deVine Cellars is back. Inglewood and Noranda’s family-run bottle shop has been championing independent producers since 1995 and has the trophy cabinet to prove it (WA Liquor Retailer of the Year, again, in 2025). When people who taste that much beer keep asking for the same style, you listen. So: Italian Pilsner, round two.
An Italian Pilsner is a German Pils that went on holiday and came back with a dry hop habit. We’ve leaned into it. Proper Eraclea Pils malt from northern Italy lays down a clean, crackery base, with a handful of flaked corn to lighten the body and keep the whole thing rolling.
Then we swapped the noble hops for a Southern Hemisphere road crew. Motueka and Galaxy go in through the hot side and whirlpool, then again in the dry hop for that signature Italian Pils lift: lime zest, white grape, a hint of passionfruit, all sitting on top of a beer that’s still, at heart, a lager. Crisp, dry, snappy bitterness, and absolutely no hazy nonsense.
No destination, no detours. Just keep on truckin’.
Ingredients:
- Malt: Eraclea Pilsner Malt, Flaked Corn
- Hops: Motueka, Galaxy
- Adjuncts: Yeast (W34/70), Flaked Corn
- Allergens: Clarex for gluten reduction
- Fun Facts: “Keep on Truckin'” started life as a one-page Robert Crumb comic in 1968. Crumb spent the next decade trying to stop people slapping it on bumper stickers, and lost.