Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 English Beer and Ale Prior to 1700 9
2 The 1700s and the Birth of IPA 15
Beers of the 1700s 15
Beer on Boats 19
East India Company and Hodgson's Bow Brewery 21
Ingredients in the 1700s 28
The Pale Ale Brewing Process 31
Hodgson's Bow Pale Ale Recipe 34
3 The Burton IPA: 1800-1900 39
Burton's Entry into the Indian Market 42
What's in a Name? Becoming India Pale Ale 46
A Changing World 49
4 Brewing the Burton IPA 61
Ingredients 67
Beer Specifications 75
Domestic IPA 78
The Burton IPA Brewing Process 79
5 IPA Brewing around the World: 1800-1900 95
England: London and other Areas 95
Scotland 102
United States 109
Canada 119
Australia 120
India 121
IPA in Decline 122
6 IPA Post-World War I 123
England 123
United States 132
7 The Craft-Beer IPA Revolution 139
8 IPA Variations 165
Double/ Imperial IPA 165
Brewing Double IPA 169
Black IPA 170
The Story of Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale 175
Belgian IPA 178
Session IPA 180
Triple IPA 181
White IPA 181
9 IPA Ingredients and Brewing Techniques 183
Malt 183
Speciality Malt 185
Brewing Sugars 185
Water 187
Milling your Grain 188
Mashing 189
Hops 192
Hop Products 195
Developing the Hop Recipe and Calculating Bitterness 202
Hopping Techniques in the Brewhouse 205
Final Thoughts on Formulating a Hop Recipe 209
Fermenting Techniques for IPAs 210
Factors that Impact Yeast Performance and Flavor Development 214
Commercial Dry-Hopping Procedures 219
Brewing Tips by Style 224
10 IPA Recipes 229
Recipe Specifics 229
Historical Receipes 231
Early Craft-Brewing Recipes 243
Contemporary U.S. Craft-Brewing Recipes 249
Contemporary British Recipes 267
Double IPA Recipes 275
Black IPA Recipes 285
Appendix A Analysis of Various IPAs from the 1800s 294
Appendix B 1900s English IPA Analytical Profiles 298
Appendix C Reading Historical Brewing Records 305
Appendix D Conducting your Own IPA Hunt 309
Notes 315
Bibliography 321
Recipe Index 329
Index 331