Despite its chart-topping dominance, the IPA is massively misunderstood, with myths and misconceptions lingering like a triple IPA’s bitter bite. Image via Getty/De Agostini Picture Library. Bitter and hoppy are not the same thing. Was it dank and tropical? Martyn, the shipwreck story is an enduring one, mentioned in different guises then and now, and I find it fascinating that no evidence has popped up to substantiate it. WTF are you on about? Mr. Cornell’s article is not that precise and accurate, though I think it may be from a simple misconception. During this time period, there were two things that made this difficult. Just the massively hopped and higher alcohol and dry version was invention for export to warm climates, where India was one of the most famous one. There was a specific and deliberate difference made between the East India Company’s “civil servants” and its “military servants”. The region is the birthplace of varieties such as papaya-like Citra, citrusy Centennial and piney Simcoe hops, the extravagantly deployed centerpieces of the 21st-century IPA. Also, as a very sad note. But the facts are that the traditional, and much-loved, story of the “invention” of IPA has NO evidence for it: however there’s mostly only inferential evidence for any other sort of narrative. Well, then, I guess I am fine dealing with these 9-10% US IPAs tonight, not dealing with insanely over strength beers – just a foolishly over strength ones. They mostly crushed porters, by then London’s dominant beer style. The ordinary soldiers were recruited from the working class, and they drank porter. The IPA umbrella covers beers that are inky and roasty, A photo posted by Jenni Shafer & Lauren Lerch (@craftybeergirls). But I bring you tragic IPA news: in 1869, a British ship, the Edwin Fox, ran aground near Chennai and had to throw 107 tons of IPA ( equal to 300,000 bottles) overboard! myter om IPA) och detta (ang. Would love to try some English IPA? I completely forgot, and it really sucks. Thanks for the clarification. How can one of the country’s most popular drinks be so misconstrued? These documents are incredibly detailed, even down the the width of the bunghole and the staves used for the barrels. DAMN popular sentiment! By the 1760s, brewers were advised to ramp up hopping rates when shipping beer to India and the Caribbean, the antiseptic flowers safeguarding beer—porters and pale ales alike—from spoilage. In the not-so-distant past, the IPA was rightfully championed as the pinnacle of West Coast beer. Your email address will not be published. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! | The Rivershack Tavern, Yippe-i-ay, it's IPA day today! That was in the 1640s, ie the 17th century. Today’s IPA is not just a bitter bomb ready to blow up your taste buds. I especially love #4. 5) “Blind hate”? References for all would be great. #1 Of course pale ale existed before. If the myth were stated instead as “British brewers discovered that if they put lots of hops in the beers they were sending out, the hoppy beer wouldn’t go sour on the four-month voyage around Africa,” then you would have an entirely valid statement. I’ll let you do the research on your own, and here’s a couple of great links to get you started, but it basically boils down as the result of British imperialism. “Very narrow version”? But I did put two links at the bottom of this post to previous posts which DO have proper references, in particular here, which is 4,000 words on the early days of “pale ale as brewed for India”, and I wrote a lengthy post here about pale ale brewing before IPA. Myth 4: “A few India-bound beer ships were wrecked on the coast of Scotland, which gave locals the chance to sample the cargo. It’s only since I’ve been banging on about the evidence pointing to a distinctly different story that the “George Hodgson” version has been sunk. While it is true that train lines were behind the growth of popularity around UK, there was a shipwreck and there is a good chance that it significantly helped with popularity of this style in that area. 1) The pale ales exported to India were NOT higher in alcohol than those sold at home. […] of the history aspects on there, as most of them are myths that won’t go […]. That seemed even on face value to be highly risible ……. Today, the IPA might as well be America’s national symbol, the bald eagle in the beer aisle. There’s an amazing amount of inaccurate, made-up rubbish that has been written about the history and origins of IPA, or India Pale Ale. To your myth #4, I’ve actually heard the same but the ship was wrecked off Liverpool, not Scotland, and it was the Irish Navvies who first spread word of the new beer as they built the railways. To contact me, see the contact details in the copyright notice below, What we do with the information we gather. Tiptoe through the history books, though, and you’ll find that Northeast brewers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were proudly, profitably brewing British-inspired IPAs. 2) Troops means troops. […] Izvor: http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/four-ipa-myths-that-need-to-be-stamped-out-for-ipaday/ […], […] Izvor: http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/four-ipa-myths-that-need-to-be-stamped-out-for-ipaday/ […], […] doesn’t just taste great – the IPA has history! Will the real Cecil Guinness please stand up?