Lima’s Cerveza Brewson has just released their latest creation: Maharaja IPA. Maharaja is a 7.1% abv American-style IPA brewed with Mosaic, Centennial, Columbus and Citra hops. It has a medium hop nose and bitterness. Maharaja has a smooth mouthfeel and holds carbonation well. In appearance it is a light amber -perhaps around 10 SRM. It…
Category: Peru Beer
Peru’s Craft Beer Explosion
Beer in Peru, as elsewhere, has been undergoing a process of concentration of ownership and production decisions for many decades. In Peru the process ocurred as the Backus & Johnston’s brewery and the Cerveceria del Sur each out-competed or absorbed local and regional brands, then merged under the Backus & Johnston umbrella, and then itself…
Beer Review: Saca Tu Machete
I’m in Peru at the moment, and last night I went to the Barranco Beer Company‘s brewpub in Lima for the 2017 Saca Tu Machete release. Saca Tu Machete is a 9% abv, 55 IBU, imperial stout brewed with algarrobina syrup, native limo hot peppers, and Tettnang, Chinook, and Columbus hops. The beer is hearty…
A bit of Peru beer history
This is an image that I came across online. It’s an early advertising poster from the Backus & Johnston Brewery Company in Lima, from back when telephone numbers in the city could be counted in the double-digits. The poster remarks that the brewery -which started as an ice company- possessed a “magnificent” ice facility imported…