tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post7699393874296109808..comments2023-11-02T07:13:53.064-07:00Comments on Beervana: The Absolute, Very Last Post on IPAs (Probably)Jeff Alworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-88049068809717494772012-08-07T05:42:12.058-07:002012-08-07T05:42:12.058-07:00Too bad that was the last IPA post... If you ever ...Too bad that was the last IPA post... If you ever mention IPA's again, you may find you left out one of the most important factors accounting for IPA ubiquity, the hop back. Karl Ockert created the first breakaway IPA at Bridgeport with it and as IPA's continue to capture market share, it's how they use their hop back and what they can scrounge to put in it to create hop flavor that otherFrednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-4015704717207018622012-08-06T13:11:41.940-07:002012-08-06T13:11:41.940-07:00Most days I am delighted with the aroma of truth. ...Most days I am delighted with the aroma of truth. I was going illustrate as well with the even in my mind pre-1776 wheat beers of the Hudson valley but as I have such slim evidence let alone records of their existence I was going to let it go. Never having been in the NW US, I was thinking mostly of the early craft brewers having BBQs with hop farmers and working out where the future might go. Alanhttp://agoodbeerblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-39426568839113807372012-08-06T11:45:08.085-07:002012-08-06T11:45:08.085-07:00It's certainly not to say there wasn't cha...It's certainly not to say there wasn't change. There was--huge churn. Preferences changed, fads came and went beers rose and fell (and sometimes rose again). Reading Ron Pattinson's Decoction! or Martyn Cornell's various works or even Georges Lacambre from 1851 (with a chaser of De Clerck) tells this story over and over again.<br /><br />But they happened within the context of Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-32341158524934674992012-08-06T10:53:05.738-07:002012-08-06T10:53:05.738-07:00"People brewed with what they had access to, ..."People brewed with what they had access to, and that seems to have inclined them to like what they had brewed. So they liked beer made with local ingredients."<br /><br />I am not entirely convinced by that to be honest. Think of pre-1842 Bohemia, specifically Plzen.<br /><br />They had local hops from the Saaz region, they had Moravian Hana barley, they had the soft water, and yet Alistair Reecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929927359428659775noreply@blogger.com