5% alc./vol., 341 ml bottle
Brasseurs illimités – http://www.brasseursillimites.com/
St-Eustache, Québec
The next three days I have an interesting experiment: the brewer has sold a six-pack of all India pale ale (IPA) beers, but brewed with three different recipes. Where to begin? Each one has an “IBU” number on it, so I’m going from lowest to highest. As we all should know by now, malt makes beer sweet and hops counteracts sweetness with bitterness. The International Bittering Units (IBU) scale can tell you how much hop bitterness there is in a beer by measuring the acids contributed by the hops. On the back, the brewer also provide a measurement of sugar as a measurement of the beer density. Less sugar and more alcohol makes a beer less dense. You kind of have to think of both measurements, since bitterness and sweetness are in competition. Tonight’s beer is 42 IBU and 10-12° density. It’s a very full-flavoured well-hopped beer, about what I’d expect from a typical English IPA. Great beer! Hmm, now I’m a bit worried about the hoppier version already chilling in my fridge…coming up tomorrow!
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