Dogtown Beer

Dogtown Brewery is a Venice Beach based beer business that is up and coming for the Southern California region known as Dogtown.

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Beer Story Number Two

Setting up your individual brewery isn't the easiest thing to do, that is for confident.  Beer will take time to ideal and time to generate.  Between selecting the correct main elements, and then attempting to spice up the recipe with some beer additions and flavor enhancers, there is a lot to do when picking a good high quality beer, particularly when you have your beer enthusiasts that you have to cater to.  Word travels quick when your beer is crap, no issue how very good you believe it is.

With the huge push to India Pale Ale (IPA), Dogtown Brewing is really concentrating on a kick ass beer that will have Dogtown lovers rejoicing for a substantial high quality beer with a kick to it.  The advertising and marketing method will also be a crucial ingredient simply because every single best microbrew in the US has an IPA, and possessing a program to go along with your IPA beer is rather darn vital.

So exactly where is Dogtown Brewing now?  Well, we are nonetheless perfecting.  Our Wit beer is in its last levels of approval, with our IPA following on the saddle, adopted by a crisp brown ale that will be a seasonal fall hit next year at your local bar or brewpub.

Dogtown is also hunting into developing its individual hops, so we can offer a little a lot more control with the top quality of the hops that we brew with.  We will not have 100% home made hops, we will most probably use the clean hops as a taste enhancer for the IPA.

Stay tuned for some videos of our gear, an interview of some people that previously had been able to get a very first hand style of Dogtown Brewing's Beer, and some approaching events that beer lovers may take pleasure in.

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What is an IPA Brew

 Nasty Beer. If you’ve never been unfortunate sufficient to have had this type of brew, count oneself lucky. If you have, then you know what the British were dealing with in the early 1700′s wanting to get beer south all around the west of Africa, across the equator, all around the Cape of Great Hope, and then again north throughout the Indian Ocean to the British troopers and citizens there demanding beer in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. Severe temperature adjustments, and extended, very hot storage situations cause beer to go bad- genuine bad. So, in the face of such pre-refrigeration conditions, the British brewers set to work with what instruments they had- specifically far more alcohol and more hops. Alcohol is apparent, but hops are incredibly astringent and are additional as an antibiotic and stabilizing agent.

G. Hodgson from the Bow Brewery in East London finally arrived to a resolution by using his Pale Ale recipe and considerably escalating the hop and alcohol content. The result was a bitter, quite alcoholic Ale that survived the trip to India and was truly drinkable at the conclude of the trip. Hodgson became a legend.

At about the very same time, equivalent conditions afflicted the trade of Beer to Russia, and a similar solution was found, only this IPA stood for “Imperial Pale Ale”. Quickly ample, political problems ceased trade with Russia, and most “Imperial” brewers basically switched markets to India, creating the “IPA” acronym synonymous for either brew.

Eventually, breweries opened up in Asia, and in the end refrigeration and contemporary storage taken out the want for the further kick and hops, but the brew still has a subsequent, since some individuals basically like the taste! Even in its heyday IPA’s rarely went over 8% ABV, and today’s common IPA’s are significantly less than that, typically among 5-seven% ABV.

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Here is a pic of one of my upcoming beers for my new brewery, Dogtown Brewing.  It's an amber ale, similar to a Fat Tire, so hopefully you guys will enjoy it.