Pick hit: The Brew Kettle Old 21 Imperial India Pale Ale. Pedigree: This beer starts extremely hoppy but finishes smooth, almost melting away. It's one of many fine ales from the Strongsville brewer.

Barclay Perkins's KKKK ale used up to 10 pounds ... he spit it out — too bitter for the old man's palate. Still, India was an open market. Allsopp agreed to try a pale. He asked his maltster ...

That’s right. The “India pale ale” is in fact an India pale lager. (Beer 101: Ales ferment warmer and for shorter amounts of time. Lagers ferment colder, with different yeast and for longer.) ...

It’s easy today to simply picture IPA as always having been the poster child that it became, but India pale ale didn ... fondness for good old American pale ale. How many craft beer geeks ...

Ballantine & Sons Brewing Company in Newark, NJ, Ballantine India Pale Ale was the only American-made ... heritage and quality of the 136-year-old brew was properly reflected in the 21 st century ...

India Pale Ale often is a popular, bitter-tasting brew. (Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer) Despite its name, the hoppy ale really is British in origin. Beyond that, its history gets a bit murky.