in #CASE you missed it… Today is National IPA Day
This year, August 6th is National IPA Day
While IPA stands for India Pale Ale, India it wasn’t created there (thought it has a lot to do with it). During their efforts to colonize India, the British made several failed attempts to send beer to their troops overseas. Extreme temperatures and lack of refrigeration caused spoilage every time. According to legend, it was George Hodgson created a brew that was bitter and highly alcoholic, but it could make the long ocean trip.”
There are four official styles. Since the 1700’s, brewers have gotten quite creative in the craft of IPAs! Today there are four main styles (and several sub-styles). Berghoff’s Beer Blog breaks them down by their differentiating characteristics:
English-Style IPA: The English variety tends to be less hoppy in flavor than American IPAs, with medium to strong hop bitterness and flavor. English IPAs can have anywhere from 4.5% to 7.1% ABV (Alcohol By Volume). They tend to be crisp and dry.
American-Style IPA: Americans revived the withering English IPA style with huge flavors. Hop flavors are strong, with high bitterness, big citrus and/or herbal character and a stable malt backbone. ABVs range from 6.3% to 7.6%, pine, sulfur and/or floral flavors are common.
Imperial (Double) IPA: More intense than the American style, Imperial IPAs will take your tastebuds to the next level...and knock you on the floor if you’re not careful as they feature and alcoholic kick, with ABVs ranging from 7.6% all the way to 10.6%.
Session IPA: Lighter and less intense, Session IPAs are intended to give you the IPA flavor, but with a lot less alcohol. Sessions can be much less intense than their American-style counterparts, with a medium to high hop bitterness, but strong hop flavor. Fruit flavors are low to moderate...and you might get more maltiness...all with a lower ABV – between.7% to 5%.
The ancient Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
A cloud near the constellation Aquila contains enough ethyl alcohol to supply 300-thousand pints of beer every day to every single person on Earth for the next billion years.
The builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid with a daily ration of beer.
Coined in the early 1900s, the word "alcoholiday" means leisure time spent drinking.
George Washington insisted his continental army be permitted a quart of beer as part of their daily rations.
A Buddhist temple in the Thai countryside was built with over 1-million recycled beer bottles.
The moon has a crater named Beer.