For the first time after two centuries, beer aged at sea will be commercially available again.
James Watt, UK's BrewDog founder, was given an 1856 "Brewer’s Handbook" as a present last Christmas. The handbook contained a 200-year-old recipe which included aging the beer at sea.
Inspired by the handbook, Watt spent two months aboard a mackerel trawler on the North Atlantic with eight barrels on-board, each containing beer brewed from the original recipe.
Says Watt, "Today the term IPA has lost its meaning and UK brewers mainly use it to describe beers which are neither particularly hoppy or high in alcohol, Duecher’s IPA at 3.8% being a prime example of the complete butchering of the style. It’s sad to see the great IPA heritage in this country come to stand for nothing more than a sparingly hopped low ABV blonde session.
We wanted to take the style back to its roots and we have created the first genuine IPA for 2 centuries. Going beyond the realms of what would normally be deemed possible in order to deliver is what we’re all about at Brew Dog: making real beer accessible to the masses."
Unfortunately, the beer is not cheap -- £10 a bottle (about $16).
2 comments:
Thank you but with those 16$ I'll buy a Dogfishhead's 120 minute IPA (10$ in philadelphia 21.7% ABV) and a mad elf from Troegs (I'm pretty sure around 6$ and not sure the ABV but high because its a strong ale.... but their not bottling it this year... maybe i should take a trip out to the brewery... but its always so far... maybe i'll, o right) It just seems a gimmick to me like the caffeinated beer or the Utopia from sam adams
Gimmick? No way. This is reaching for authenticity: the way they drank beer in the time of the Raj.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
Stationed near the city of Bombay
In all that sweat and stink
The only thing we’d drink
Was that first-class two-month sea-aged IPA.
(apologies to Kipling)
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