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Why is the Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA so expensive?
I think there are three main reasons.
1) Direct production costs. Dogfish declares adding hops for two hours, and this has a cost you need to pay (more hops, more time)
2) Alcohol content. Taxes may ...
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Sugar before bottle
They are shooting for a bottle conditioned beer which means the beer ferments a little bit in the bottle, trapping the co2 and carbonating the beer "naturally". I doubt they are putting sugar directly ...
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Sugar before bottle
Fermantation and CO2
Long story short, yeast consumes sugar and produces alcohol and CO2. During primary fermentation all the CO2 is released into the air (unless you ferment under pressure which I ...
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What food pairs well with an IPA?
Be mindful of the variety of IPA on the US market -- the average New England IPA is a different beast than the average west coast IPA. I'll call out a few excerpts from the serious eats article Andrew ...
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De Ranke XXX Beer
They are brewing it actively and there's information on the deranke.be website at http://www.deranke.be/en/bier/xxx-bitter
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Does beer suffer from being warmed and then rechilled?
I am now drinking a beer from a keg from last weekend. I left the beer keg inside my storage with door open and it's been warm this week (100°F). Five days later the beer tastes almost same exept that ...
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