West Coast IPA

By the 1790’s the British were established in India and needed beer, which was considered a staple in every household. India, however, presented serious problems for brewers. Hot temperatures, poor water and short supplies of basic ingredients made it impossible to brew beer. Attempts to ship beer out of Britain to Calcutta failed. 

George Hodgson of London produced a pale ale of greater strength and bitterness than those he sold in London. The hops helped protect the beer from spoilage, as did the increased alcohol content. Hodgson’s India Ale arrived in Calcutta in fine shape-clear, strong, and bitter, with a big, resinous hop aroma.  The word spread of India Pale Ale and people throughout England and the United States were clamoring for this wonderful new beer. The rage lasted through 1970’s, but lost steam in the 1980’s and became just another name for low alcohol bitters. 

As craft beer has emerged and grown, so has IPA! IPA has helped grow Craft Beer to what it is currently today. There are now many shapes and forms of IPA, but they all share bright aromatic hop aroma of citrus, tropical fruit, and pine.

pFriem West Coast IPA takes a modern approach to brewing a bright and vibrant West Coast IPA. We focused using only high-quality pale malt from British Columbia with a touch of corn sugar to help make sure the beer is dry, crisp, and makes the hops pop out of the glass. We wanted to focus on making very bright, aromatic, citrusy flavors of tangerine, cannabis, strawberry, starfruit, grapefruit, and tropical fruit. In order to do this, we brewed and dry hopped this beer with a Pacific Northwest powerhouse Citra combined with the new school hop – Krush and a sprinkle of Nelson. The result is a ripe, fresh, and citrus forward West Coast IPA!