Lagunitas IPA


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Iโ€™ve Tried Thousands of Beers. This Cheap West Coast IPA Is the Perfect Warm Weather Sipper

As the temperatures warm up for spring, itโ€™s time to put away the dark beers and reach for this delicious IPA. If you didnโ€™t realize it already, we are firmly entrenched in a brewing boom in the U.S. At last count, there are almost 10,000 breweries, craft or otherwise. There were only about 1,500 in 1999. Thatโ€™s an awful lot of beer to choose from. This is true even if you stick to only one style in particularโ€”especially if itโ€™s the classic west coast IPA.

The first west coast IPA is believed to have been created by beer pioneer Fritz Maytag when he introduced the Anchor Liberty Ale in 1975. The style is well-known for its mix of citrus, pine, and sometimes aggressively bitter hop finish and the use of cascade, centennial, citra, simcoe, and a handful of other popular hops. In my almost twenty years of writing about alcohol, Iโ€™ve had my fair share of award-winning, balanced, and memorable west coast IPAs. Iโ€™ve also had quite a few uncomfortably bitter IPAs. And while I can appreciate the highly-rated craft IPAs coming out of San Diego and beyond, I can also give props to the original west coast IPAs that I started drinking in college and continue to enjoy to this day. Especially Lagunitas IPA. Tony Magee, founder of Lagunitas Brewing Company, began brewing beer in 1993. Magee launched Lagunitas IPA in 1995 as an answer to the popular California pale ales like Sierra Nevada. The sublimely balanced IPA is brewed with English crystal, caramel, and Munich malts. It gets its hop presence from the liberal use of cascade, centennial, chinook, and simcoe hops. The result is a great IPA for beginners and experienced drinkers alike. It all starts with a nose of orchard fruits, orange peels, ripe grapes, and floral, piney hops. The palate is centered on lemon peels, honeydew melons, caramel malts, dank pine, and a hoppy, bitter, resinous finish that leaves you craving more. Itโ€™s refreshing and balanced, the kind of beer you want to crack open on a hot day after mowing the lawn or while playing bocce, ladder ball, croquet, or any other yard game. Lagunitas IPA has such a big footprint that you can find it at any beer retailer from Petaluma, CAโ€”where Lagunitas is locatedโ€”to Palm Beach, FL. This is a classic grocery store IPA thatโ€™s always there waiting for you no matter where you live. I can almost guarantee if you stroll into your local gas station mini mart or grocery store, youโ€™ll find this beer in the cooler.

Did I mention that a six-pack of Lagunitas IPA is only $10 to $12? It couldnโ€™t be more affordable. Iโ€™m not here to tell you not to try your local craft breweryโ€™s newest, trendy dry-hopped west Coast IPAโ€”Iโ€™m all about supporting local craft breweries. But you shouldnโ€™t sleep on one of the original go-tos either. Sure, itโ€™s been on the market since Billy Madison was in theaters, but Lagunitas IPA is the type of beer that never goes out of style.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์…”๋ดค๋‹ค. ์ด ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ IPA๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋‚ ์”จ์— ๋”ฑ ๋งž๋Š” ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋‹ค.

๋ด„์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋ฌต์งํ•œ ๋‹คํฌ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์น˜์šฐ๊ณ , ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” IPA๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋‚ผ ๋•Œ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฏธ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋งฅ์ฃผ ๋ถ์ด ํ•œ์ฐฝ์ด๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์šด์˜ ์ค‘์ธ ํฌ๋ž˜ํ”„ํŠธ ๋งฅ์ฃผ ์–‘์กฐ์žฅ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์–‘์กฐ์žฅ์€ ์•ฝ 10,000๊ฐœ์— ์ด๋ฅธ๋‹ค. 1999๋…„์—๋Š” 1,500๊ฐœ ์ •๋„์˜€์œผ๋‹ˆ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ํŠน์ • ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋งŒ ๋งˆ์‹ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ IPA๋ผ๋ฉด ๋”์šฑ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค.

์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ IPA๋Š” ๋งฅ์ฃผ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™์ž์ธ **ํ”„๋ฆฌ์ธ  ๋ฉ”์ดํƒœ๊ทธ(Fritz Maytag)**๊ฐ€ 1975๋…„ **์•ต์ปค ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ ์—์ผ(Anchor Liberty Ale)**์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์€ ์‹œํŠธ๋Ÿฌ์Šค, ์†”ํ–ฅ(pine), ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•œ ์“ด๋ง›์ด ํŠน์ง•์ด๋ฉฐ, ์บ์Šค์ผ€์ด๋“œ(Cascade), ์„ผํ…Œ๋‹ˆ์–ผ(Centennial), ์‹œํŠธ๋ผ(Citra), ์‹ฌ์ฝ”(Simcoe) ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ ํ™‰์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค.

๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ 20๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธ€์„ ์จ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜์ƒ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์˜ IPA๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์…จ๋‹ค. ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ๋ง›๊ณผ ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ IPA๋„ ๋งŽ์•˜๊ณ , ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ์”์“ธํ•œ IPA๋„ ๊ฝค ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋””์—์ด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ๊ณ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋œ ํฌ๋ž˜ํ”„ํŠธ IPA๋“ค์„ ๋†’์ด ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ ‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ ํด๋ž˜์‹ํ•œ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ IPA๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ **๋ผ๊ตฌ๋‹ˆํƒ€์Šค IPA(Lagunitas IPA)**๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค.

**ํ† ๋‹ˆ ๋งˆ๊ธฐ(Tony Magee)**๊ฐ€ 1993๋…„ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ **๋ผ๊ตฌ๋‹ˆํƒ€์Šค ๋ธŒ๋ฃจ์ž‰ ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ(Lagunitas Brewing Company)**๋Š” 1995๋…„ ๋ผ๊ตฌ๋‹ˆํƒ€์Šค IPA๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹œ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ํŽ˜์ผ ์—์ผ(์˜ˆ: ์‹œ์—๋ผ ๋„ค๋ฐ”๋‹ค)์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด IPA๋Š” ์ž‰๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์‹œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ธ ๋งฅ์•„, ์นด๋ผ๋ฉœ ๋งฅ์•„, ๋ฎŒํ—จ ๋งฅ์•„๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ชฐํŠธ ๋ฐ”๋””๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ํ™‰์€ ์บ์Šค์ผ€์ด๋“œ, ์„ผํ…Œ๋‹ˆ์–ผ, ์น˜๋ˆ…(Chinook), ์‹ฌ์ฝ”๋ฅผ ์•„๋‚Œ์—†์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ๋ง›์„ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, IPA ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž๋“  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์• ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€๋“  ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ํƒ„์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ˆ˜์› ๊ณผ์ผ, ์˜ค๋ Œ์ง€ ๊ป์งˆ, ์ž˜ ์ต์€ ํฌ๋„, ๊ฝƒํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์†”ํ–ฅ์ด ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ๋ง›์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๊ป์งˆ, ํ—ˆ๋‹ˆ๋“€ ๋ฉœ๋ก , ์นด๋ผ๋ฉœ ๋งฅ์•„, ์ง„ํ•œ ์†”ํ–ฅ์ด ์กฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ํ”ผ๋‹ˆ์‹œ๋Š” ํ™‰์˜ ์”์“ธํ•œ ๋ ˆ์ง„ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๋‚จ์•„ ๊ณ„์† ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ƒ์พŒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ๋ง› ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋”์šด ๋‚  ์ž”๋””๋ฅผ ๊นŽ์€ ํ›„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ณด์น˜, ์‚ฌ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ ๋˜์ง€๊ธฐ, ํฌ๋กœ์ผ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์•ผ์™ธ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ข‹๋‹ค.

๋ผ๊ตฌ๋‹ˆํƒ€์Šค IPA๋Š” ์œ ํ†ต๋ง์ด ์›Œ๋‚™ ์ปค์„œ, ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ **ํŽ˜ํƒˆ๋ฃจ๋งˆ(Petaluma)**์—์„œ ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค **ํŒœ๋น„์น˜(Palm Beach)**๊นŒ์ง€ ์–ด๋””์„œ๋“  ๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํŽธ์˜์ , ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ๋งค์žฅ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ฐ€์Šค ์Šคํ…Œ์ด์…˜์—์„œ๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” โ€˜ํด๋ž˜์‹ํ•œโ€™ IPA๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋‹ค. 6ํŒฉ์ด 10~12๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ํฌ๋ž˜ํ”„ํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ฃจ์–ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋“œ๋ผ์ด ํ˜ธํ•‘ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ IPA๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋„ ์ง€์—ญ ๋ธŒ๋ฃจ์–ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‘์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ IPA์˜ ์›์กฐ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ๋ผ๊ตฌ๋‹ˆํƒ€์Šค IPA๋ฅผ ์žŠ์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค.

๋นŒ๋ฆฌ ๋งค๋””์Šจ(Billy Madison) ์˜ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ทน์žฅ์—์„œ ์ƒ์˜๋˜๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ถœ์‹œ๋œ ๋งฅ์ฃผ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ผ๊ตฌ๋‹ˆํƒ€์Šค IPA๋Š” ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์œ ํ–‰์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋‹ค.

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