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.

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 ...

However, more-aggressive offshoots such as India pale ale, double IPA and black IPA have forced drinkers to recalibrate their palates. Plain old pale ale has become almost the Wonder bread of ...

Classic pale ales include Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Half Acre Daisy Cutter ... Would You Order a Beer Inspired by a Negroni or Old Fashioned? The Old Guys - English, Belgian, Brut, Black, and ...

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 ...

INDIA pale ale (IPA) once had a good claim to be the first ... mass-market beers as old styles were abandoned in favour of a pint that would not offend anyone. But in the 1980s brewing began ...

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.) ...

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.