We’ve had the good fortunate to get to know Todd and the team at Good Word over the last four years and have been visiting their wonderful brewery and pub in Duluth, GA (at least) annually since - most recently for their Little Beer festival, as special a beer event as you’ll find in the country. Between Todd’s impeccable lager sensibilities and relentless quest for knowledge we knew we had a great partner in taking on the challenge of a Maibock.

A strong, spring lager often served at German May Day Celebrations (“Mai meaning May) Maibock rides a fine line between intensity and drinkability. Maltiness marked by honey sweetness is balanced by a bouquet of hop character – in this case, driven by staggered additions of German Hallertau Mittelfrüh (whole cone and pellets). Together we employed many of the tools in our lager tool chest. Our Maibock was single-decocted with a combination of two heirloom barley varieties Weyermann Isaria 1924 and @valleymalt Jalowetz Pilsner malt. It was spunded (if you know Good Word, you know), lagered for 9 weeks and krausened with fresh Helles to naturally achieve our target carbonation. We find the results well worth the effort - the beer is refined and technically beautiful. We hope you enjoy it over the next month as much as we know we will.