num_pages: 182
description: As a diverse but distinctive style IPA bestrides the craft beer world like a colossus. As author Dick Cantwell says We are living in the heyday of IPA. While hops remain front and center in the myriad examples of IPA available to beer drinkers today the style is also now subject to vast experimentation and dressing-up producing fruity herbal black Belgian-y and juicy versions of this perennial favorite. Brewers are pushing the boundaries of IPA by using flavors from cocoa coffee tea fruits vegetables spices herbs chilis and wood. Before describing how this multitude of ingredients can best be applied to crafting unique eclectic and tasty IPAs Cantwell gives a potted history of IPA acknowledging some of the fanciful notions the story often includes. When he arrives at craft brewing today Cantwell opens up whole new vistas where experimentation can happen involving spices and herbs of all kinds fruits from every corner of the globe vegetables familiar and not-so-familiar coffee and chocolate teas and botanicals. Along the way he describes his thoughts behind his approach and how to treat these ingredients with free license while still being conscious that the aim is to produce something delicious that people will want to drink again. Brewing Eclectic IPA will inspire professional and homebrewers alike to explore the creative ways in which these ingredients can be used in brewing highly hopped beers. Try your own version using any of the 25 recipes for contemporary IPAs that the book contains designed by some of America's top brewers.
language: English
title: Brewing Eclectic IPA: Pushing the Boundaries of India Pale Ale
publisher: Brewers Publications