Superfriends Pale Ale

Alongside hop-stuffed India Pale Ales in single, double and even triple versions, the simple Pale Ale is sometimes somewhat overlooked This is a great pity, as the little brother of the IPA is in no way inferior to it The Pale Ale dates back to 18th century England and is traditionally brewed with pale malt Back then, most of the malt was dried over beechwood smoke, so there were hardly any pale ales on the market For more golden shades, the grain was kilned over coke for the first time at this time: This material burned with less smoke and did not leave an overly smoky taste in the grain Today, thanks to mechanization, there is a whole range of ways to gently process the grain into malt and pale ale has established itself on the beer market

A tasty variant of the classic comes from the pen of Superfreunde Their interpretation is called [P]Ale and is already in its second edition For a soft base, the brewers use barley, oat and wheat malt and combine them with the hop varieties Idaho 7 and Talus in the Cryo version To deepen the hop aroma, the beer was also cold-hopped The end result is a citrus-fresh beer with sweet notes of ripe stone fruit and spicy pine notes