Fans of India pale ale should head to the International Tap House next Wednesday, March 3. Starting at 7 p.m. that day, the Chesterfield beer mecca will showcase a whopping 10 single-hopped American IPAs from Danish brewer Mikkeller.
Five 5-ounce draft samples will cost $15, which will include background on each beer, a tasting sheet for notes and an entry form for a shot at prizes. The Mikkeller IPAs will be Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, East Kent Golding, Nelson Sauvin, Nugget, Simcoe, Tomahawk and Warrior. iTAP will also offer the 10 beers by the bottle.
Partly because of a boom in brew pubs, Denmark reportedly has more breweries per capita than anywhere else in Europe. (No mean feat, given the competition.) It also has a number of “gypsy brewers,” traveling brewers who borrow others’ facilities to craft their beers. Mikkeller’s one such – basically, if incredibly, a one-man operation. Nonetheless, since its founding in 2006, Mikkeller has won much acclaim, including being named Danish brewery of the year twice.
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This article appears in Feb 1-28, 2010.