Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xv
Well, How Did We Get Here? 1
Section I IPAs Then and Now 7
Chapter 1 Origins of IPA: The Evolution of the Peacock 9
Perfidious Albion: Britain Kills the Golden (IPA) Goose 11
The Linked Rings: Ballantine IPA and Beyond 12
Cell Division: The Proliferation of American IPA 14
Chapter 2 Where it All Went from There, and Where We're Going 19
The Subtle, and Not So Subtle, Machinery of Hops 26
Dim the Lights: The Evocative Becomes Actual 26
Wood-Aged and Sour IPAs 31
The Long and One-Eyed Lens of History 31
Section II Crafting Eclectic IPAs 35
Notes on the Recipes 35
Water 36
Malt 37
Hops 37
Yeast 37
Additional Ingredients 38
Chapter 3 Cracking the Cornucopia 41
Fruit and Vegetable IPA 41
Brewing IPA with Fruit 42
The Taxonomy of Fruit-Who Cares? 42
Brewing IPA with Vegetables 45
In the Land of the Mangaboos 45
Brother, Can You Spare a Source? 50
Putting Your Hands on All This Stuff 50
Grow Your Own to Brew Your Own 51
Form Follows Function (or Is It the Other Way Around?) 51
Experiencing (and Analyzing) the Flavor Elements 54
The Sensuous Brewer 54
What It Is We're Trying to Do Here 55
IPA Recipes with Fruit 57
Cranberries for Sal IPA: Cranberry New England IPA 57
Hot Guava Monster IPA: Guava Habanero Double IPA 58
Fuyu Me IPA: Persimmon Long Pepper IPA 59
Punch Drunk Love DIPA: Fruit Punchy Double IPA 61
Yuzulupululu IPA: Yuzu IPA 62
South Island Hiss IPA: Gooseberry IPA 63
Red Spruce IPA: Redcurrant Spruce IPA 64
True North Grapefruit IPA: Grapefruit IPA 65
IPA Recipes with Vegetables 67
Cucumber Squeeze IPA: Cucumber Meyer Lemon IPA 67
Fennelicious IPA: Fennel IPA 68
Maple Bardo IPA: Maple IPA 70
Mr. MacGregor's IPA: Ginger, Turmeric, Carrot, and Parsnip IPA 71
Jack o' Lupe IPA: Pumpkin Pineapple Sage IPA 72
Chapter 4 Time and Place, Herb and Spice 85
Herbs in IPA 87
Are You Going To Scarborough Fair? 87
Articles of Incorporation-"Herb" in IPA 92
Spices, Peppercorns, and Chilies 96
It's Clobberin' Time! 97
IPA Recipes with Herbs and Spices 98
Avatar Jasmine IPA: Jasmine IPA 98
Green Dragon IPA: Marijuana IPA 99
Pods and Sods IPA: Tamarind Kaffir Lime IPA 101
June of '66 IPA: Rosemary IPA 102
Shiso Fine IPA: Shiso Pink Peppercorn IPA 103
The Cs Knees IPA: Gin Botanical IPA 104
Thyme Has Come Today IPA: Fresh Thyme IPA 105
Chapter 5 His Dark Materials: Coffee and Chocolate IPA 119
Circadian Rhythm-the Symbiosis of Coffee and Beer 120
Too Much of the Good Stuff? Chocolate in IPA 123
Fancy a Mugga? IPA Made with Tea 125
IPA Recipes with Coffee and Chocolate 126
East of Java Black IPA: Black Coffee IPA 126
Glimmers of Darkness IPA: Coffee-Cacao IPA 127
IPA Recipes with Tea 129
TukTukTea IPA: Thai Iced Tea IPA 129
Chapter 6 Would I? Wood-Aged and Sour IPA 135
Flavors from Wood 137
It's in the Trees 137
Flavors in Oak 138
Roll Out the Barrel 139
Sour IPA 141
The Antithetical and the Inevitable 143
Putting a Bung in It-Takeaways from All This Perversity 143
IPA Recipes Using Wood 145
Single Hop Citra Belgian Session IPA: Single Hop Sour Session IPA 145
India Pale Antitheticale: Unhopped IPA 146
Whither Eclectic IPA? There Will Be Hops! 149
Appendix A Flavor Compounds 155
Terpenic Tie-ins to Hops, Fruits, Herbs, and All the Rest 155
2-Undecanone 156
beta-Pinene 156
Caryophyllene 156
Farnesene 156
Geraniol 157
Geranyl Acetate 157
Humulene 157
Limonene 157
Linalool 157
Myrcene 158
Nerol 158
Esters, etcetera 158
Esters 159
Thiols 160
Thioesters 160
Lactones 160
Aldehydes 160
Bibliography 163
Index 169
