Despite the English ale yeast in its cask version and its heavy hopping rates, Jaipur was a long way from New England-style brewing. Although the Jaipur Beer is English from production location through to traditional bitter taste, make sure you check out our other India-related beer reviews, such as the Kingfisher Premium, Kingfisher Storm and Kingfisher Ultra. This is a beer I have always liked to contemplate and study before drinking deeply of it and it is truly one of the most influential beers of the last 15 years.

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Brown took his time sampling each one, reveling in the hop aromas he’d just rediscovered, until he reached the last beer. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of British beer came out in July 2017, with corrections and a new format . The two currents, the old cask tradition and American-inspired craft beer, started coming back together. For the next five years, Jaipur and Punk IPA were the standards against which all American IPAs brewed in the U.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. For the first time in decades, breweries were opening instead of closing, and young people had a reason to go the pub.

By the time Jim and Emma Harrison bought Thornbridge Hall in 2002, whatever home-brewing the residents might have conducted in the 17th or 18th century was long gone. With over 100 worldwide awards, this American style IPA has a complexity of flavour created by a six-dimensional hop experience. While Punk IPA flew out the door at BrewDog bars, supermarkets, and Wetherspoon chain pubs, Jaipur stuck to its traditional northern outlets, venturing down south only to appear in discerning pubs, and mostly still on cask. Not overpowering with fruit flavours some but well balanced and smooth maybe zesty lemongrass flavor and pine with a low to medium bitterness level.

Punk started with a similar malt and hop bill, set apart by the use of the New Zealand hop Motueka, but within a few years was dialed back to 5. If someone were to ask me what IPA they should have if they had never had one before I would most certainly point them in the direction of Jaipur.He brought in another friend, Simon Webster, who had experience in the food and drink world, and between them hired two guys fresh out of university brewing courses. The beer was like nothing Brits had tasted and while some thought it was too intense (and too American), others thought they saw the future of beer.