250 Years of IPA
The India Pale Ale (IPA) is the modern world in a glass. Its history began just before the Napoleonic Wars as an attempt to make regular pale ale more shelf stable, grew with the British Empire, nearly disappeared after two World Wars, and then surged back to life at the turn of the new millennium.
The Story of Hops
This is the story of beer as we know it today, told from the perspective of its sexiest ingredient. Follow the story of hops from medieval kitchens and monasteries through the rise, and clash, of empires, and finally to the modern craft beer industry that helped resurrect good beer after it nearly disappeared during the 20th century.