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Draught IPA, to be specific. Though I think I'll return to the bottled IPAs as well.
If there's a beer style that pisses me of, it's English IPA. Because it only has the most tenuous connection to any beers brewed in the UK bearing the name. In reality, it's a recerse-engineerd American IPA, with tweaks to make it English. Basically, reducing the hopping or using English hops. And not based on IPAs brewed in the UK at all.
1.050º to 1.075º, 5% to 7.5% ABV, is what the BJCP guidelines say the strength should be. How many examples do I have that fit those parameters? Not one, either bottled or draught. Though the classic one, Red Triangle/White Shield, is missing. Though, at 1052º, even that only just scrapes in.
What do the three draught beers called IPA have in common? Bugger all.
The one with the longest pedigree is Younger's. They'd been brewing one since at least 1851. Though that version was a good bit stronger at 1068º and 6.5% ABV. Which would fit comfortably in the English IPA guidelines, ironically enough. Especially as it was Scottish. It's the strongest of this set. And also the best value. It's only 0.5p per pint more expensive than Greene King's, but with a gravity 8º higher.
Charrington IPA I've drunk loads of times. The stuff was all over London. Though I don't think I ever tried the London-brewed version. Just the one from Cape Hill. It was an OK Best Bitter, when looked after well. Not a patch on London Pride, mind.
And Greene King IPA is, well, a beer that is now pretty common. I don't know if you got it all in London when I lived there.It was mainly confined to East Anglia.
Draught IPA in 1972
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Younger, Wm.
IPA
13.5
3.22
0.34
1043.5
1008.2
4.59
81.15%
Charrington
IPA
15.5
2.61
0.25
1040.5
1011.2
3.80
72.35%
Greene King
IPA
13
2.71
0.28
1035.2
1006.7
3.70
80.97%
Average
14
2.85
0.29
1039.7
1008.7
4.03
78.15%
Source:
Daily Mirror July 10th 1972, page 15.
Bottled IPA in 1972
Brewer
Beer
Price per half pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Truman
Ben Truman
10
4.37
0.48
1043.7
1006.9
4.80
84.21%
Worthington
E
9.75
4.83
0.42
1047.1
1015.4
4.10
67.30%
Ind Coope
Double Diamond
9
5.27
0.47
1047.4
1015
4.20
68.35%
Courage
John Courage IPA
9
5.29
0.56
1047.6
1009.2
5.00
80.67%
Average
9.4
4.94
0.48
1046.5
1011.6
4.52
75.14%
Source:
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 11 July 1972, page 9
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Draught IPA, to be specific. Though I think I'll return to the bottled IPAs as well.
If there's a beer style that pisses me of, it's English IPA. Because it only has the most tenuous connection to any beers brewed in the UK bearing the name. In reality, it's a recerse-engineerd American IPA, with tweaks to make it English. Basically, reducing the hopping or using English hops. And not based on IPAs brewed in the UK at all.
1.050º to 1.075º, 5% to 7.5% ABV, is what the BJCP guidelines say the strength should be. How many examples do I have that fit those parameters? Not one, either bottled or draught. Though the classic one, Red Triangle/White Shield, is missing. Though, at 1052º, even that only just scrapes in.
What do the three draught beers called IPA have in common? Bugger all.
The one with the longest pedigree is Younger's. They'd been brewing one since at least 1851. Though that version was a good bit stronger at 1068º and 6.5% ABV. Which would fit comfortably in the English IPA guidelines, ironically enough. Especially as it was Scottish. It's the strongest of this set. And also the best value. It's only 0.5p per pint more expensive than Greene King's, but with a gravity 8º higher.
Charrington IPA I've drunk loads of times. The stuff was all over London. Though I don't think I ever tried the London-brewed version. Just the one from Cape Hill. It was an OK Best Bitter, when looked after well. Not a patch on London Pride, mind.
And Greene King IPA is, well, a beer that is now pretty common. I don't know if you got it all in London when I lived there.It was mainly confined to East Anglia.
Draught IPA in 1972
Brewer
Beer
Price per pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Younger, Wm.
IPA
13.5
3.22
0.34
1043.5
1008.2
4.59
81.15%
Charrington
IPA
15.5
2.61
0.25
1040.5
1011.2
3.80
72.35%
Greene King
IPA
13
2.71
0.28
1035.2
1006.7
3.70
80.97%
Average
14
2.85
0.29
1039.7
1008.7
4.03
78.15%
Source:
Daily Mirror July 10th 1972, page 15.
Bottled IPA in 1972
Brewer
Beer
Price per half pint (p)
º gravity per p
% ABV per p
OG
FG
ABV
App. Atten-uation
Truman
Ben Truman
10
4.37
0.48
1043.7
1006.9
4.80
84.21%
Worthington
E
9.75
4.83
0.42
1047.1
1015.4
4.10
67.30%
Ind Coope
Double Diamond
9
5.27
0.47
1047.4
1015
4.20
68.35%
Courage
John Courage IPA
9
5.29
0.56
1047.6
1009.2
5.00
80.67%
Average
9.4
4.94
0.48
1046.5
1011.6
4.52
75.14%
Source:
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 11 July 1972, page 9
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