Some brewers dropped the term "India" in the late 19th century, but records indicated that these "pale ales" retained the features of earlier IPAs. In 1837, Hodgson's IPA typically cost 6/6 (£0.325) for a dozen pint bottles, the same as Guinness Double Stout, 53% more than the 4/3 (£0.2125) a dozen for those of porter. Palmer & Co.ĭemand for the export style of pale ale, which had become known as "India pale ale", developed in England around 1840 and India pale ale became a popular product in England.
īest India Pale Ale, bottled expressly for export by A. It is clear that by the 1860s, India pale ales were widely brewed in England, and that they were much more attenuated and highly hopped than porters and many other ales. While IPAs were formulated to survive long voyages by sea better than other styles of the time, porter was also successfully shipped to India and California.
The common story that early IPAs were much stronger than other beers of the time, however, is a myth. Įarly IPAs, like those mentioned above, were only slightly higher in alcohol than most of the other beers brewed in their day and would not have been considered strong ales however, more of the wort was well-fermented, meaning few residual sugars, and the beer was strongly hopped.
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London East End brewer Charrington's trial shipments of hogsheads of "India Ale" to Madras and Calcutta in 1827 proved successful and a regular trade emerged with the key British agents and retailers: Griffiths & Co in Madras Adam, Skinner and Co. Perhaps as a result of the advantages of Burton water in brewing, Burton India pale ale was preferred by merchants and their customers in India, but Hodgson's October beer clearly influenced the Burton brewers' India pale ales. Other Burton brewers, including Bass and Salt quickly followed Allsopp's lead. ġ9th century poster for Phipps, an IPA brewer in Northampton.Īt the behest of the East India Company, Allsopp's brewery developed a strongly-hopped pale ale in the style of Hodgson's for export to India. During the same period, several Burton breweries lost their export market in Continental Europe, including Scandinavia and Russia when the Napoleonic blockade was imposed, and Burton brewers were seeking a new export market for their beer. The brewery came into the control of Hodgson's son early in the next century, but his business practices alienated customers. Ships exported this beer to India, among them his October beer, which benefited exceptionally from conditions of the voyage and was apparently highly regarded among its consumers in India.
Its beers became popular among East India Company traders' provisions in the late 18th century for being two miles up the Lea from the East India Docks, and Hodgson's liberal credit line of 18 months. Īmong the first brewers known to export beer to India was George Hodgson's Bow Brewery, on the Middlesex- Essex boundary. One such variety of beer was October beer, a pale well-hopped brew popular among the landed gentry, who brewed it domestically once brewed it was intended to cellar two years. By the mid-18th century, pale ale was mostly brewed with coke-fired malt, which produced less smoking and roasting of barley in the malting process, and hence produced a paler beer. The pale ales of the early 18th century were lightly hopped and quite different from today's pale ales. See also: Bow, London and Burton-on-Trent
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