It wasn’t until 2003 that Kimmich opened The Alchemist brewpub and releasedHeady Topper. TheHeady Toppercame to be the original Hazy IPA and started a haze phenomenon that led breweries to create their own Haze IPA. In fact,Heady Topperwas the only Hazy IPA available at the time. You co...
The world’s first IPA begins with an entrepreneur, who was lucky to have located his brewery business close to the East India Company, which was in the business of bringing exotic stuff back to the UK, and that meant the ships were a little light on the way there (plenty of room for...
However, even the yeast producer recommends performing a diacetyl rest when fermenting at the lower side of the temperature range in order to minimize the comound’s presence in the final beer. It has a fairly high alcohol tolerance and attenuation, so lower ABV styles may sometimes end up dr...
There’s definitely some controversy over what the IPA’s of the Bow Brewery were like, and whether or not they weren’t actually just the same pale ales of the day, but the common thread supports the idea that extra hops and extra alcohol came to be associated, making the beer less ...