Mitch Steele joins us from New Realm Brewing to discuss what has changed in IPA brewing in the 12 years since he wrote his classic book on IPAs.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (49:21)
- Today my guest is Mitch Steele, author of the book IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale (Amazon affiliate link). Mitch is also the former brewmaster at Stone brewing and is COO and Brewmaster at New Realm Brewing Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Back in 2012 Mitch launched his book on IPAs. I ask Mitch if he anticipated the rapid growth of IPAs over the last 12 years?
- We discuss a bit about the history of IPAs from his book starting in the 1700’s. We also cover the Burton IPA and what made it an important historical IPA.
- Mitch explains how the IPA almost died as a style around the two world wars and then again in the 1960s and 1980s.
- We talk a bit about IPA variations and how some of the best IPAs use a relatively simple formulation.
- Mitch tells us about the explosion in new IPA substyles and we discuss both the more successful and less successful IPA variants.
- We talk about the explosion in hop knowledge the last 12 years including knowledge about aroma oils, biotransformations, dry hopping, hop creep and more.
- We talk about what Mitch might include if he had to write his book now, knowing all that he knows.
- Mitch takes a look at what he thinks might be next in IPA styles.
- We talk about what a historical IPA drinker might think of a modern American IPA
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