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Pale ale and the long voyage to India

Pale ale and the long voyage to India

Des de Moor on the long history of beer brewed for the India trade in the 19th century and the difference between those historic brews and modern IPAs. He discusses the role of conventional brewers' yeast and such wild strains as Brettanomyces that would have given sharply different flavours to the Victorian styles

Added: Sunday, January 28th 2024

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Beer legend Prentice brings back a Truman pale ale from Victorian times

Beer legend Prentice brings back a Truman pale ale from Victorian times

Brewmaster Derek Prentice, who worked for Truman's before joining Young's and then Fuller's, has helped the new Truman's Brewery in Hackney Wick to create an Export Pale Ale based on a Victorian recipe, using no fewer than eight hops and the original Truman's yeast

Added: Saturday, October 18th 2014