Canadian IPA

Have you spotted my current theme yet? Obviously, it's Canada. Only joking. IPA. 

For purely selfish reasons. I need to assemble a talk on the history of IPA and was a bit sketchy about the history in some periods. I won't claim to be 100% certain about the early years. With no brewing records from before the 1830s and no chemical analyses to work with, it's mostly inference and guesswork. Not how I usually work. Which is why I mostly limit myself to 1800 onwards.

A slight digression there. Away from the topic of this post: Canadian IPA in the late 19th century. I'd forgotten that I had these. It was only when I started going through my analyses of IPAs that I spotted them. That's the problem with having so much information. You can't remember all of it.

What strikes me is the similarity to domestic UK IPA. (Only because I was looking at those yesterday could I remember.). The Canadian versions average out a little stronger, by 3º in gravity and 0.34% ABV. While the rate of attenuation was a little lower, but still very high. 

Still, a striking similarity between the two sets, despite being brewed 50 years apart.

Not done with IPA, yet. Oh no, not by a long way.

Canadian IPA
Year	Brewer	Town	Beer	OG	FG	ABV	App. Atten-uation
1897	Copland Brewing	Toronto	IPA	1059.8	1012.4	6.18	79.26%
1897	Copland Brewing	Toronto	IPA	1058.7	1007	6.78	88.07%
1897	Dawes & Co.	Lachine, P.Q.	IPA	1057.3	1002.1	7.27	96.34%
1897	Eaton Bros.	Owen Sound	IPA	1055.4	1006	6.47	89.17%
1897	Geo Sleeman	Guelph, Ont.	IPA	1051.8	1006.8	5.88	86.87%
1897	J. McCarthy, Son	Prescott, Ontario	IPA	1061.3	1009.5	6.78	84.50%
1897	Labatt	London, Ontario	IPA	1049.8	1014	4.64	71.89%
1897	S. Jones	St. John, N.B.	IPA	1056.4	1007.8	6.36	86.17%
1897	W. Dow & Co.	Montreal	IPA	1066.4	1008	7.67	87.95%
	Average			1057.4	1008.2	6.45	85.58%
Source:
"Report, returns and statistics of the inland revenues of the Dominion of Canada", By Canada. Dept. of Inland Revenue, 1898, pages 34-49