-
サマリー
あらすじ・解説
Investigation into Pale Ale You are listening to the Informal investigation podcast This is the podcast where we investigate, experience, and share interesting finds My name is Asher and lets begin ::Music:: The informal investigation podcast is for entertainment purposes only. We are not responsible if you mess up. You should always do your own homework. If you try anything mentioned on this podcast you are doing so at your own risk. The views presented on this podcast are solely those of the speakers and do not represent any affiliated or unaffiliated organizations. ::music:: Today we are opening an informal investigation into Pale Ale For those of you who have been following this podcast you will remember our first episode in mid October covered pumpkin beer. If you haven't listened to it stop now! and go listen! It’s not what you expect and it will blow your freakin mind! Pumpkin beer is a specialty beer and definitely not for everyone. Even though the one we made was pretty great, I got sick of it after 1 or 2 beers and the rest of it is just sitting in my fridge gathering dust. Anyone ever wonder why things in the fridge don’t gather dust? That's for a different time! Pumpkin beer is a novelty beer though and I'm sick of it. After coming off of pumpkin beer I needed a super basic beer to clean my pallet and reset my beerometer! Ya, beerometer said first on the internal investigation podcast. Quick disclaimer! On this podcast we investigate, experience, and share interesting finds! Interesting being subjective I wanted to warn you I happen to have a special place in my heart for all sorts of brews and ferments. These topics are likely to have more than their fair share of episodes. ::music:: The history of pale ale is complex, zig zagging, and still being written. There are constantly new styles being added to this category. Milk Shake Indian Pale Ales, Sour Indian Pale Ales, White IPAs are just a couple of the newer styles. To learn more about Pale Ales I was able to find a book called https://www.amazon.com/dp/0937381691/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=iipodcast-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=5bbc90407ba39037515ad04b7e211e3e&creativeASIN=0937381691 (“Pale Ale” (I know really original) by Terry Foster). The book goes into detail about the history of pale ales and how to brew them Before pale ale existed there was just plain old “Ale” in England. Ale was a very strong beverage that did not include hops. Sometime after the 15th century when hops were introduced in England they started making ale with hops and this was known as beer. Hops in addition to their unique flavor have antimicrobial properties. This allowed brewers to make Ale much weaker (ie less alcohol) and save money on their grain bill. Ironically, nowadays hops are the most expensive ingredients in beer. Eventually the term Ale faded from common use as people started to exclusively enjoy hopped beer. The term later re-surfaced to refer to strong beers. Unfortunately the https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DTV9HVV/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=iipodcast-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=420925fa43030fbcc12699f1f7d603a6&creativeASIN=B07DTV9HVV (hydrometer) was not used in brewing till the 18th century so it's hard to know exactly what they meant by “strong” beer. We will get back to hydrometers in a different episode but in short it measures how much sugar is extracted from the grain and later turned into alcohol. So where did the Pale get put into Pale Ale. Like it sounds pale refers to color. ::music:: Let's get back to our beer basics: Beer is made by soaking milled barley in warm water to extract the sugars. This sugar water called wort is then boiled with hops to add additional flavor. Finally the wort is cooled and yeast are added to ferment the sugars...