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Yes, it's ''that'' Michael Jackson, the famous connoisseur of beer and whisky (just making sure it's clear, because I've heard there was some other Michael Jackson too). Anyway, coming back to Grodziskie, it's a top-fermented beer that is brewed from oak-smoked wheat malt. You can see it's an old style; in the past all malt was made in open-fire kilns, so practically all malt was smoked. Once brewed, the beer is clarified with isinglass, or a kind of glue made from fish swim bladders (another time-honoured practice), then bottled and allowed to referment in bottles (just like Champagne), which gives it a distinctively large head of foam when poured.
The name comes from the town of Grodzisk (or Grätz in German), where it was brewed from as early as the 17th century until 1993. That year, during a period of rapid privatization and consolidation of Poland's beer market (it had been only four years since the fall of Communism), the last active brewery in Grodzisk was acquired and promptly shut down by the larger brewing company, Lech Browary Wielkopolski (or "Lech Breweries of Greater Poland"), which now belongs to Kompania Piwowarska ("Beer-Brewing Company"), which in turn has been owned by SAB Miller, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Asahi). And this is how Grodziskie became a historical beer style.
== Grodziskie Resurrected ==