5.8% ALC/VOL • IBU 22 • Limited
About The Brew
It starts in Pilsen in 1842, where the townspeople were so fed up with the local beer that they dumped barrels of it in the street and hired a Bavarian brewer named Josef Groll to fix the problem. What he had to work with turned out to matter more than what he intended: exceptionally soft water with almost no mineral content, sweet Moravian malt, Saaz hops, and newly available indirect kilning that produced a malt paler than anything most drinkers had ever seen. The beer came out brilliant gold — right as cheap glassware was replacing pewter and ceramic, so for the first time people could actually see what they were drinking. It changed beer permanently.
The soft water is the key to the whole thing. It rounds bitterness off rather than sharpening it, which is why a Czech pils tastes fuller and softer than its German cousin despite being built from similar parts.
At 5.8% and 22 IBUs, Greater Than Less Than leans hard into that softer side — rich, bready malt, a floral herbal Saaz character, and a bitterness that’s present but never pointed. Full-bodied and gold, and easier to drink than its strength suggests.
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