With its new brewery in the southern village of Wieprz, Poland—near Zywiec, a name familiar to fans of Polish beer—Browar PINTA is celebrating a decade of brewing this year. Its first beer was Atak Chmielu, or “Attack of the Hops,” and it may have been the country’s first commercially brewed American-style IPA.
PINTA continues to crank out all sorts of IPAs, but it also brews a style much more traditional to Poland: Baltic porter. PINTA’s take on the style already had more hop presence and bitterness than most. More recently, it’s borrowing a page from those IPAs—getting an added aroma burst from both whirlpool and dry hopping.
Here’s their approach to brewing Imperator Bałtycki, a 10.5 percent ABV core beer that they refer to as an “imperial Baltic porter.”