Acorn grows its IPA range

A Yorkshire brewery has reached 30 in its range of India Pale Ales, which use a different hop variety but the same basic recipe.

Atlas Ale is the Acorn Brewery’s new offering and it uses hops sourced from Slovenia. The Leeds’s based brewery has released the IPA’s on a monthly basis and previously sourced hops from Germany, the Czech Republic and America. All its IPAs have an ABV of 5%.

Acorn’s Maris Otter based Barnsley Bitter (3.8%) has been an award winner for the brewery. It won the CAMRA award for best beer in Leeds in 2008 and took silver in class in CAMRA's 2006 Champion Beer of Britain awards.

IPA was originally an export beer designed for ships to carry, in the days of long voyages before the Suez Canal. The beer had to be robust enough to survive sailing the journey around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. India Pale Ale then found its way on to the British market and was popular with many in the new middle class of office workers, teachers and civil servants, who were apparently anxious to distance themselves from the working class. However, the maritime version of IPA was too strong for land-based drinkers and so a scaled-down version, with less alcohol and hops was created called simply Pale Ale.

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31 July 2009