Best barbecue beers: Accompany flame-grilled sausages, steaks and burgers with a fuller-flavoured,
hoppier ale such as Marston's Pedigree or Timothy Taylor's Landlord.
In the U.K., CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, says that porters are
hoppier than stouts and get their darkness from black malt, the old "Patent Malt." According to the Brewers' Association Guidelines in the U.S., there are brown porters and robust porters.
This is a much
hoppier ale than the late-stage Ballantine IPA, and Pabst says this is because they are hearking back to the true Newark version, pre-1971.
In all these places, hoppy beers currently arc the rage, with India pale ales and even
hoppier double-and triple-lPAs continuing to be some of the fastest growing beer styles.
The style is almost uniformly based on European Pilsners, although Chinese beers tend to the maltier side while the Japanese go for a cleaner,
hoppier style.
"English character, but a lot
hoppier than an English IPA."
As warm weather approaches and temperatures heat up, it's time to take a look at that thirst-slaking stalwart of the craft beer scene, pale ale, along with its bigger, bolder and
hoppier brother, India pale ale.
Like Alaskan's flagship (an altbier) this is an amber beer, but considerably
hoppier.
This slant on dopplebock is much
hoppier than is typical among German variants, which gives it a bold New World character.
Johnson-King reported that Wellspring is slightly
hoppier than the classic Saison, and described the beer's flavor as "crisp, with notes of lemon pepper, banana, and stone fruit."
As British-style pale ale begat the
hoppier India pale ale (IPA) back in the late 18th century--a time when elevated alcohol content and hopping rates were necessary to preserve the beer during its ocean voyage from London to India--so did the more bitter, grapefruity American pale ale beget the still
hoppier American-style IPA in the 1990s.
