A dark amber lager brewed since 1950 and the country’s best-known beer, revived among younger drinkers as a deliberately unfashionable local choice against imported brands.
It is one brewery’s commercial lager, and brewing beer at home is licensed or restricted in much of the atlas’s readership.
What goes into it
- malted barley, including darker malts
- hops
- lager yeast
- water
How it is made
Malt including a proportion of darker kilned grain is mashed, the wort boiled with hops, cooled and fermented cool with lager yeast, then cold-conditioned for weeks before filtering and bottling. The colour comes from the malt kiln rather than from any addition.
How long it takes: three to five weeks from mash to bottle
How it is eaten
Cold from the bottle at a street bar, with hummus and grilled meat.
History
Brewed since 1950 and the country’s best-known beer, revived among younger drinkers as a deliberately unfashionable local choice.
Frequently asked questions
What is Goldstar?
Goldstar is a wine & spirit from Israel: dark amber lager poured in pubs and at street bars. Brewed since 1950 and the country’s best-known beer, revived among younger drinkers as a deliberately unfashionable local choice.
How is Goldstar made?
Malt including a proportion of darker kilned grain is mashed, the wort boiled with hops, cooled and fermented cool with lager yeast, then cold-conditioned for weeks before filtering and bottling. The colour comes from the malt kiln rather than from any addition. It takes three to five weeks from mash to bottle.
Can I make Goldstar at home?
No, and the atlas gives no method for it. It is one brewery’s commercial lager, and brewing beer at home is licensed or restricted in much of the atlas’s readership.
What goes into Goldstar?
Malted barley, including darker malts, hops, lager yeast, water.
How is Goldstar eaten?
Cold from the bottle at a street bar, with hummus and grilled meat.
