The idea was born with the help of social media in 2011, with Ashley Routson and Ryan Ross as its main promoters, quickly spreading globally as one of the most important beer style celebrations.
The legend about the origin of IPAs says that British brewers were looking to develop a recipe that could be exported to India, a very difficult journey where it was exposed to dramatically extreme temperatures.
Beer is a perfect example of what in anthropology is known as cultural convergence, a phenomenon in which civilizations separated by oceans and millennia arrived at the same technological solution without having influenced each other.
The cold chain essentially means that the product being distributed is kept refrigerated at a constant temperature at all times, including during transportation.
Tesgüino is a corn beer produced by the Rarámuri in the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, which still remains integrated into their labor exchange systems, ritual organization, and identity reproduction.
Unlike the initial perception of flavor, the aftertaste manifests in a late phase, when sapid molecules interact with specific areas of the tongue and the retronasal olfactory epithelium.
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