Description
Craft beer's most popular style, India Pale Ale, is experiencing a flavor revolution. Brewers are using a wide range of flavors to push the boundaries of the style, from cocoa nibs to coffee, fruits to vegetables, spices, herbs, and even wood – brewers are using a wide range of flavors to push the boundaries of the style. Explore the ways creative ingredients are being used in brewing these highly-hopped beers and try your own version using 24 recipes for contemporary IPAs designed by one of the country's top brewers.
Chapter
Section I: IPAs Then and Now
Chapter 1. Origins of IPA: The Evolution of the Peacock
PERFIDIOUS ALBION:BRITAIN KILLS THE GOLDEN (IPA) GOOSE
THE LINKED RINGS: BALLANTINE IPA AND BEYOND
CELL DIVISION: THE PROLIFERATION OF AMERICAN IPA
Chapter 2. Where it All Went from There, and Where We’re Going
THE SUBTLE, AND NOT SO SUBTLE, MACHINERY OF HOPS
DIM THE LIGHTS: THE EVOCATIVE BECOMES ACTUAL
The Long and One-Eyed Lens of History
Section II: Crafting Eclectic IPAs
Chapter 3. Cracking the Cornucopia
The Taxonomy of Fruit—Who Cares?
BREWING IPA WITH VEGETABLES
In the Land of the Mangaboos
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A SOURCE?
Putting Your Hands on All This Stuff
Grow Your Own to Brew Your Own
Form Follows Function (or Is It the Other Way Around?)
EXPERIENCING (AND ANALYZING) THE FLAVOR ELEMENTS
What It Is We’re Trying to Do Here
True North Grapefruit IPA
IPA RECIPES WITH VEGETABLES
Chatper 4. Time and Place, Herb and Spice
Are You Going To Scarborough Fair?
Articles of Incorporation—“Herb” in IPA
SPICES, PEPPERCORNS, AND CHILIES
IPA RECIPES WITH HERBS AND SPICES
Chapter 5. His Dark Materials: Coffee and Chocolate IPA
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM—THE SYMBIOSIS OF COFFEE AND BEER
TOO MUCH OF THE GOOD STUFF? CHOCOLATE IN IPA
FANCY A MUGGA? IPA MADE WITH TEA
IPA RECIPES WITH COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE
Chapter 6. Would I? Wood-Aged and Sour IPA
The Antithetical and the Inevitable
PUTTING A BUNG IN IT—TAKEAWAYS FROM ALL THIS PERVERSITY
Single Hop Citra Belgian Session IPA
Appendix: Flavor Compounds
TERPENIC TIE-INS TO HOPS, FRUITS, HERBS, AND ALL THE REST