India Pale Ale

India Pale Ale (IPA) was named for the popularity of pale, refreshing beers among the British Empire working in India during the early 19th century. As with many beer styles, it never had an exact definition and went through numerous reworkings over the subsequent decades before largely falling out of favour. That changed when American craft brewers adopted the pale ale as a showcase for their intensely flavoured hops and a newer, stronger, hoppier IPA was born. Now the choice of IPAs is hu