Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
“Chicha de Mora”, from Lima’s Magdalena brewery, is described on the bottle as an “American Wheat Berry and Purple Corn Ale.” The name is a play on two traditional Peruvian corn brews – chicha de jora, which is fermented corn beer made from malted corn (jora), and chicha morada, which is made from boiled purple…
Sierra Andina is a craft brewery from the northern Peruvian Andean city of Huaráz, situated at 10,000 feet above sea level and near the foot of Mt Huascarán, which rises a further 12,00 feet from the valley floor. In the past Sierra Andina has harkened to that Andean setting for the names and styles of…
I’m in Peru! But, along the way, I had a brief layover in Panama, where I picked up a can of Panamá Classic Lager. Panamá Classic Lager is a 4.4% abv American light lager. As such it had the relative dearth of body, flavor, bitterness and aroma that is typical American light lagers – but…
Extra Extra Double Brut India Pale Ale was one of the beers that I brought back from North Carolina. It is not made in North Carolina -or maybe it is? Stillwater Artisanal is an itinerant brewing operation. In a variant of the contract-brewing model, Stillwater -headquartered in Baltimore- rents out unutilized brewing and fermentation space…