By 2016, ticking culture was at its height within the craft beer industry, and a new trend was about to challenge classical IPA as the flagship style of craft beer. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This may affect nutrition and allergen information therefore you should always check product labels and not rely solely on the information presented here. A laid back metallic bitterness takes over by stealth after a floral interlude and then gradually fades out. We came across it at The Old Fish Market in Bristol last night, a Fuller’s pub which often has one or two guest beers from larger independents.

When American craft beer headed back across the Atlantic, it barely resembled the cask bitter that originally inspired it. While within the beer bubble attention moves so quickly from one beer, one brewery, or one trend to the next, outside it people move much more slowly. Although the Jaipur Beer is English from production location through to traditional bitter taste, make sure you check out our other India-related beer reviews, such as the Kingfisher Premium, Kingfisher Storm and Kingfisher Ultra. Their first brew was Lord Marples, a 4% classic bitter, which went on to become a core Thornbridge beer.Then they did something far more interesting, fusing the older English tradition with the new American one.

At 10%abv I knew this would be a monster but I didn’t realise just how big a brobdingnagian it would turn out. Jim Harrison, with help from business partner Simon Webster and two other young brewers, set out with aims "to make a small range of quality cask and bottled beers using new recipes, innovative approaches and the use of local fresh ingredients".It was the 15th Anniversary of their flagship beer, Jaipur, a couple of days ago so it felt appropriate to give this multi-award winning IPA a try! Nobody there really spoke about ABV because it was broadly the same, so people drank four or five pints of [Jaipur], stood up, and fell down. In all versions, the nose and initial impressions are purely Pacific Northwest—grapefruit, sweet orange, fir. There was no craft beer scene back then, so we were selling our casks into traditional pubs,” says Webster. That’s why 18 years later, Serious Pig was honoured to be invited by Thornbridge Brewery to take part in this beloved brew’s birthday.