In recent years, you may have noticed a different type of tap in breweries and taprooms. They have a side pull and they can be used to control the amount of foam in a beer. Maybe you’ve even enjoyed a “milko” pour, a beer, usually a Czech-style lager, poured such that it is almost entirely foam.
These pours come from the Czech Republic’s long beer history and are finally being appreciated outside its borders. Making good beer doesn’t end when the beer is packaged.
Czech beer culture knows that the dispense of the beer enhances the beer, too.
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Guests
Eric Larkin is a beer enthusiast, who has worked in the brewing industry for just over 12 years. After swearing he would never open a brewery, he found himself captivated by the culture, history, and production methods of lager in the Czech Republic and opened Cohesion Brewing with his wife Lisa in 2021. Prior to that, Eric worked at a number of breweries also known for exploration of specific styles including New England IPAs at Odd13 Brewing in Lafayette, CO and Belgian styles at Allagash Brewing in Portland, ME. Now, he tries to find any excuse to explore beer across the US and Europe for what can be dubbed a “work trip”.
Magdaléna Hoppová was born in 1996 in the Czech Republic and studied as a geography teacher. She started as a homebrewer in 2018 and worked for 3 yeahttps://www.pult.ambi.cz/enrs in Dva kohouti craft brewery as a tapster and brewmaster. She has been working for the last two and a half years as a tapster at Pult in Prague, a lager focused beer bar. She is certified in beer sensory analysis and tap system sanitation. .
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Don Tse
Living near seven malthouses, Don Tse is a freelance beer and malt writer and consultant known globally as The Don of Beer. He has been active in craft beer for over 25 years and has famously sampled and written tasting notes on almost 27,000 different beers. He is the co-host of the All About Beer podcast. Don has also written for magazines and presented on beer in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ukraine and Singapore. Nobody in those countries thinks his jokes are funny.
Em Sauter
Em Sauter is an Advanced Cicerone®, cartoonist, author, beer reviewer, international beer judge and public speaker who runs the award winning website Pints and Panels, which focuses on visual beer education. Her first book "Beer is for Everyone! (of Drinking Age)" was published in 2017 by One Peace Books. Her second book "Hooray for Craft Beer!" was released in April 2022 with Brewers Publications. Em is also co-host of the All About Beer Podcast. She lives in New England with her husband Matt and two cats- Milbo and The Geen.