{"id":275,"date":"2007-07-29T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/damn-pete-brown-the-best-beer-trip-ever\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:35:18","slug":"damn-pete-brown-the-best-beer-trip-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/damn-pete-brown-the-best-beer-trip-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Pete Brown: The best beer trip ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PeteAuthor Pete Brown – who is having way too much fun in his role as “the second-best beer drinker in Britain!”<\/a> – has talked Coors into letting him take a pin (small cask) of India Pale Ale from its White Shield brewery in Burton-on-Trent and transport it to India in much the same manner the highly hopped beer would have traveled in the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Not everybody would consider this the best beer holiday ever, but if you care about IPA and its history this might be better than a visit to Belgium or one to Bavaria. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime trip. You can go to Bamberg next year.<\/p>\n

The Morning Advertiser<\/a> provides the details (they wrote “pint” but must mean “pin”):<\/p>\n

He’ll follow the route round the Cape of Good Hope, taken throughout the first part of the 19th century before the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 shortened the journey.<\/p>\n

Working with Coors brewer Steve Wellington, Pete will take to Bombay a pint of IPA brewed by Steve in Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, exactly as it would have been in 1820.<\/p>\n

He sets off from Burton by canal in mid-October, spends a month on a P&O cruise ship, jumps on a 19th-century three-masted tall ship for the passage round the Cape, then spends a month on a giant container ship before arriving in India in late December.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Martyn Cornell provides more perspective<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I’ve been saying for several years that a British brewer really ought to take a cask of well-hopped IPA and ship it to India to see what happens to the flavour \u2013 the Norwegians still do a similar thing with Linie Akvavit, though that goes to Australia and back, rather than the sub-continent.”<\/p>\n

Which brings us to . . . an article in the new All About Beer<\/a> magazine (dated September and with Dave Alexander on the front) titled “IPA Master Class.” From Roger Protz. But only half the story.<\/p>\n

The cover touts the “Search for Authentic IPAs.” That means, I guess, that Stone IPA, Victory HopDevil and Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale aren’t authentic.<\/p>\n

Te article provides important historical perspective about both IPA history (credit London before Burton-on-Trent) and the impact IPAs had on pale lagers. You need to read more, right?<\/p>\n

I just wish that Protz, or AABM with a companion story, had got to American IPAs. A heck of a lot more drinkers consume US-brewed IPAs these days than those brewed in the UK. And these are beers that showcase Northwest hops.<\/p>\n

Protz lists his personal Top Ten IPAs, with five from America:<\/p>\n

– BridgePort IPA
\n– Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
\n– Goose Island IPA
\n– Sierra Nevada IPA
\n– Pike IPA<\/p>\n

Great beers every one, but are they the first ones you think of when you say I’ll have an IPA<\/em>?<\/p>\n

But back to the top, the Morning Advertiser<\/em> reports that Brown intends to write a travel book, rather than a beer book, about his journey. I can’t wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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