Originally brewed hoppier and heavier to preserve it on voyage from Great Britain to India, IPA met with favor among hopheads the world around.
According to the importer, the new beer is true to the original weiss beer formulations of the early 20th century, when wheat beers were much hoppier.
Matching haggis with this IPA gently subdues the hoppier aspects of the beer while the latter’s citrus elements seem to reduce any pepperiness in the food.
||1:Heiner Müller of Paulaner, the Munich-based maker of Germany's most popular Hefeweizen, argues that the Reinheitsgebot is needed because German consumers expect it.||2:It need not be an obstacle to diversity: the varieties of hops, malt, yeast and other factors like temperature could produce over a billion beers, he says.||3:But German brewers have largely stuck to a few traditional styles.||4:For instance, it is hard to find porters and stouts, or the hoppy , high-alcohol brews now popular on America's west coast.