Talking of places in Cambridge which pair street food with craft beer, the bar at the foodPark Night Market events also serve a compact but discerning range of craft beers, including various cans from Beavertown (look out for its seasonal blood orange IPA, Bloody Elll) and at least one local beer.
If you are after something a little more creative and crafty, scrutinise the keg beers which, this time around included Redwell's white IPA, Black Isle's organic porter, Lagunitas IPA and rare appearances (if you come from Manchester, at least) for both Signature Brew's 8.3% Black Tongue (its collaboration with bone-crunching metal band Mastodon) and Yeastie Boys' Minimatta from New Zealand.
A major pub company and brewery, located in Suffolk, its IPA is regularly (and rightly) derided as not worthy of that name.
The passion for hops in American craft beers has taken on the characteristics of an arms race, as brewers try to outdo each other in hoppiness.If no brewer in America can pass up the opportunity to make an IPA, the same is true elsewhere.
Beer drinking is in overall decline as wealthy boozers switch to wine and spirits, but craft beer is growing fast, as consumers turn against the mass market to savour more expensive and exclusive brews.The beer that craft brewers like making the most is IPA.
There are British beers as well as expensive Belgian and American tipples and a Norwegian IPA, coming in at £9.20 a pint.
Late last year Pfizer defeated Ranbaxy, an IPA member, in an American patent suit over Lipitor, its hugely successful anti-cholesterol drug.
In the southeast, as early as the 12th century, the long vowels ī, ū, and ṻ (IPA y) came to be diphthongized to ei, ou, and öü (IPA øy); this feature is known as the New High German diphthongization.
Is it an IPA or a pale ale, a Weissbier or a Witbier?
The recent publication of Richard Rufus of Cornwall's In Physicam Aristotelis has made available what is certainly a very important text for an understanding of the influence of Aristotle's Physics on the early tradition of English natural philosophy in the thirteenth century (IPA 2003).
Likewise, the Cambridge Blue's extensive cask and keg line-up includes beers as traditional as Tydd Steam's highly drinkable Swedish Blonde, wheat beers brewed in Essex (Mighty Oak's Head In The Clouds), craft beers from New Zealand (I found Renaissance's Voyager IPA a little sweet), and such exotica as a chilli-infused black IPA from Peterborough's buccaneering craft outfit Bexar County.
