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Have you spotted my current theme yet? Obviously, it's Canada. Only joking. IPA. For purely selfish reasons. I need to assemble a talk on the history of IPA and was a bit sketchy about the history in some periods. I won't claim to be 100% certain about the early years. With no brewing records from before the 1830s and no chemical analyses to work with, it's mostly inference and guesswork. Not how I usually work. Which is why I mostly limit myself to 1800 onwards.
A slight digression there. Away from the topic of this post: Canadian IPA in the late 19th century. I'd forgotten that I had these. It was only when I started going through my analyses of IPAs that I spotted them. That's the problem with having so much information. You can't remember all of it.
What strikes me is the similarity to domestic UK IPA. (Only because I was looking at those yesterday could I remember.). The Canadian versions average out a little stronger, by 3ยบ in gravity and 0.34% ABV. While the rate of attenuation was a little lower, but still very high.
Still, a striking similarity between the two sets, despite being brewed 50 years apart.
Not done with IPA, yet. Oh no, not by a long way.
Canadian IPA
Year
Brewer
Town
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
1897
Copland Brewing
Toronto
IPA
1059.8
1012.4
6.18
79.26%
1897
Copland Brewing
Toronto
IPA
1058.7
1007
6.78
88.07%
1897
Dawes & Co.
Lachine, P.Q.
IPA
1057.3
1002.1
7.27
96.34%
1897
Eaton Bros.
Owen Sound
IPA
1055.4
1006
6.47
89.17%
1897
Geo Sleeman
Guelph, Ont.
IPA
1051.8
1006.8
5.88
86.87%
1897
J. McCarthy, Son
Prescott, Ontario
IPA
1061.3
1009.5
6.78
84.50%
1897
Labatt
London, Ontario
IPA
1049.8
1014
4.64
71.89%
1897
S. Jones
St. John, N.B.
IPA
1056.4
1007.8
6.36
86.17%
1897
W. Dow & Co.
Montreal
IPA
1066.4
1008
7.67
87.95%
Average
1057.4
1008.2
6.45
85.58%
Source:
"Report, returns and statistics of the inland revenues of the Dominion of Canada", By Canada. Dept. of Inland Revenue, 1898, pages 34-49
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Have you spotted my current theme yet? Obviously, it's Canada. Only joking. IPA. For purely selfish reasons. I need to assemble a talk on the history of IPA and was a bit sketchy about the history in some periods. I won't claim to be 100% certain about the early years. With no brewing records from before the 1830s and no chemical analyses to work with, it's mostly inference and guesswork. Not how I usually work. Which is why I mostly limit myself to 1800 onwards.
A slight digression there. Away from the topic of this post: Canadian IPA in the late 19th century. I'd forgotten that I had these. It was only when I started going through my analyses of IPAs that I spotted them. That's the problem with having so much information. You can't remember all of it.
What strikes me is the similarity to domestic UK IPA. (Only because I was looking at those yesterday could I remember.). The Canadian versions average out a little stronger, by 3ยบ in gravity and 0.34% ABV. While the rate of attenuation was a little lower, but still very high.
Still, a striking similarity between the two sets, despite being brewed 50 years apart.
Not done with IPA, yet. Oh no, not by a long way.
Canadian IPA
Year
Brewer
Town
Beer
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
1897
Copland Brewing
Toronto
IPA
1059.8
1012.4
6.18
79.26%
1897
Copland Brewing
Toronto
IPA
1058.7
1007
6.78
88.07%
1897
Dawes & Co.
Lachine, P.Q.
IPA
1057.3
1002.1
7.27
96.34%
1897
Eaton Bros.
Owen Sound
IPA
1055.4
1006
6.47
89.17%
1897
Geo Sleeman
Guelph, Ont.
IPA
1051.8
1006.8
5.88
86.87%
1897
J. McCarthy, Son
Prescott, Ontario
IPA
1061.3
1009.5
6.78
84.50%
1897
Labatt
London, Ontario
IPA
1049.8
1014
4.64
71.89%
1897
S. Jones
St. John, N.B.
IPA
1056.4
1007.8
6.36
86.17%
1897
W. Dow & Co.
Montreal
IPA
1066.4
1008
7.67
87.95%
Average
1057.4
1008.2
6.45
85.58%
Source:
"Report, returns and statistics of the inland revenues of the Dominion of Canada", By Canada. Dept. of Inland Revenue, 1898, pages 34-49
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