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adamtbest

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Hello my name is Adam. I'm a home brewer from the U.S. I've been home brewing for 10 years. I recently started a website.
After starting my website I found I'm getting views from all over the world. I've had a lot of views from China. I did some Google searches and found in China U.S. type of craft beers are popular, like American Pale Ales, Blonde Ales, and IPAs.
Here is the U.S. IPAs have been popular for a while, and now sours are getting popular.
I wanted to see if American style of ales are popular over in U.K. I know pale ales, and IPAs are American versions of British beers. Just with different malt, and hops.
I do like brewing with Maris Otter, but I use American 2 row because it is cheaper for me.

Thanks you for anyone who replies.
 
I wanted to see if American style of ales are popular over in U.K. I know pale ales, and IPAs are American versions of British beers. Just with different malt, and hops.
I do like brewing with Maris Otter, but I use American 2 row because it is cheaper for me.

Thanks you for anyone who replies.

American styles are gaining ground here with at least one brewery doing a California common for instance. Just to be pedantic IPAs are a UK invention but I think you are talking about A IPAs (American IPAs).

I'm currently brewing an all grain American pale ale (but using Maris otter instead of two row). I'm also planning a Cali common, I like the idea that you can't mess about with the hops and it uses lager yeast. I've made a couple of ales with lager yeast and they turned out well.

I haven't noticed American two row malt for sale here in the UK, maybe I haven't looked, but I'd certainly try it.

You'll find people on here are more than happy to brew any style.
 
I'd say especially in London, the American style IPAs are pretty popular, but going into some of my favourite bars here you can get anything from IPAs, to Amber Ales, to Milk Stouts, India Stouts, Saisons, Wheatbeers, etc. I came across a hoppy Belgian Blonde ale the other day.

You can check out a lot of them here to see what London craft brewers are up to: http://craftbeerlondon.com/breweries

Favourite breweries of mine:

Kernel
Beavertown
Brew By Numbers
Five Points
Brixton
Four Pure
Pressure Drop
Signature Brew

Just to name a few :)
 
Thanks. India stout? I can't say I've heard of it. Cool I learned a new style.

Haha yea that one is called Holy Cowbell by Beavertown Brewery here - I don't think it's strictly a stout, it's one of those that can be classed as a Black IPA / Porter / Stout depending on who you speak to. It's hopped heavily, but it says India Stout on the tin, so who am I to argue - it's delicious!
 
Hey Adam, where in the US do you hail from?

I would say that there's a big trend at the moment in the keg beer trade whereas there are still pubs that are very much cask beer places. To clarify: cask beer tends to be pulled through a hand pump and is served at cellar temperature whereas the keg beer is a bit more what you might find in an American bar where the beer comes out colder than a witch's tit. I like both, and a good friend of mine who's from Brooklyn was blown away by the 'subtlety of flavour' that British cask ale offered (he was hopelessly ****** on Ringwood Old Thumper at the time.)

As for styles: it feels that there's not been a better time to be a beer lover if you like variety. I was in the Oakford in Reading on Friday night and they had Beavertown Gamma Ray, Bier De Bruxelles, Korev, Hog's Back T.E.A., Hogstar and Dead Pony Club. I didn't drink them all because we were only there for a bit but I certainly agonised over which one to sup.
 
I live Cincinnati, Ohio.
I've heard of cask beer, but never had one. Some places around here do cask as a special from time to time, because cask draw in oxygen, which causes spoilage, it's only a weekend here or there type of deal. Bars normally have them when I can't go.
I like the variety of beer styles that exist today. Tomorrow I'm going to an international grocery store that has a beer bar in it. The beer taps will be taken over by Dogfish Head brewery. Dogfish head likes to blend beers or make new beers off of existing styles, like a Peach Berlin Weiss, or a brown India Pale ale.
 
After spending some time in the US near Portland a few years back. I got used to the hobby taste (some much stronger than here in the UK), the extra sparkle along with the tendency to serve the beer colder. It did surprise me a few times the stronger volume, often above 6% where in the UK they are often below 4.5%.

I really got to like the Blonde Ales and IPA from the US.
 
Hi Adam,

When it comes to beer the USA philosophy of bigger is better really suits brewing. I love A-IPA's. Also Brooklyn Brewery's Black chocolate stout is super awesome.
Heavily hopped beers with American variety hops are superb. So the best of the USA beers tend not to reach UK supermarkets which err on the side of mediocrity. However brew dog and weatherspoons do give us access to the US craft scene and I love it. Michael Jackson (the beer hunter, not the pop star) picked up on the US beer scene very early when al lot of people equated US beer to Budweiser and looked no further.
 
My wife is from Chico in California. Where Sierra Nevada are. I'm not completely obsessed with their beer and try to drink as much as I can on every visit. Most of the new beer seem to be vertually identical to Euro craft beers now though. So I stick to yee faithful Torpedo and Celebration as a rule.

The problem with drinking US beer for me while I'm here is that it's so expensive. £3 or $5 for a little farty bottle. Not great.
 
My first taste of Americn IPAs was a bottle of Pale Rider from Sierra Nevada that I got in a Las Vegas Casino whilst on second honeymoon about 12 years ago. I bought it cos I like Clint Eastwood movies :hat:

I had no idea what it was or why it tasted so good, but I loved it. It took literally years for me to start to understand why it was different. Now citrusy hop-forward pales ales are my favourites, and I homebrew because they are still not always available in pubs, though that is slowly changing. I am in Salisbury at the moment and the Wyndham pub is the tied house for a local brewery called Hop Back, they do a good pale ale called "Citra" - I love it.

Cheers,
Laurence.
 
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