Any ingredient you might find at a sundae bar! Plenty of brewers are getting weird with ingredients like maple syrup and cinnamon sticks.Fruit or Fruit Puree! Not always, but often.Plenty of Lactose! This milk sugar doesn’t ferment, so it survives in sugar form, making the beer taste sweet.What exactly is a Milkshake IPA? It depends who you ask, but according to Craft Beer and Brewing, these are the basics: That’s from Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, and is perhaps the first-ever reference to a beer milkshake.įortunately, things have changed since the 40’s - beards are no longer considered a sign of moral decay, and breweries all over the country are making beer milkshakes in the form of Milkshake IPAs! But then, a man with a beard, ordering a beer milkshake in a town where he wasn’t known - they might call the police.”
“If a man ordered a beer milkshake, he thought, he’d better do it in a town where he wasn’t known. The Milkshake IPA combines two of humanity’s finest achievements - milkshakes and beer! And while the style is new, it’s based on a decades-old dream.
The Milkshake IPA is a fascinating offshoot of the hazy IPA trend and is typified by the inclusion of lactose or milk sugar during the brewing process – providing a milky, creamy mouthfeel and appearance that causes euphoria among hopheads the world over.
