From San Diego to Denmark to South Carolina, wild experimentation with heat is creating a thrilling—and palate-threatening—craft beer experience.
By.Spike Carter
While craft beer heads might measure a brew in IBUs (International Bitterness Units, which are used to approximately quantify the hop bitterness of beer) what about a beer’s SHUs (Scoville Heat Units, a measurement of the heat of chili peppers)? Beers with heat are hot at the moment as craft brewers experiment with exciting new flavor combinations. Whether they’re made via the addition of hot pepper juice, oils, or whole peppers, ales and lagers brewed with chili peppers are common enough for “Chile Beer” to be a recognized style on BeerAdvocate.com. Ranging in heat on the palate from subtle to fiery, here are seven eclectic examples of Scoville-scoring, great brews.
Ballast Point | Habanero Sculpin
San Diego’s Ballast Point is the 17th-largest brewery in the country, based on sales, and its flagship IPA Sculpin is an American craft staple. Named after the scorpion-like sculpin fish, the base beer packs a hop bite that’s no joke. Ballast Point spices up the standard IPA recipe with habaneros, which lends bright citrus notes to start and then a hot finish for which there’s only one remedy: another big gulp.
Barreled Souls | Teotihuacan
Barreled Souls out of Saco, Maine, is one of the country’s most adept brewing teams when it comes to unorthodox adjuncts. Teotihuacan is one of its best stout recipes, made with raw cocoa nibs and oven-roasted habaneros. It clocks in at 12.9 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). A version that’s aged for more than 11 months in a tequila barrel is particularly excellent, with big chocolate notes, roast-y flavors in the periphery, and a finish that’s both floral and hot.
Thanks for sharing such information with us. Beer License Service - we here at The Beer Consultant have been devoted to assisting people set up and develop beer businesses in India. we help to get Beer License Service in Delhi, India
ReplyDelete