Recommended wines: 90-minute IPA, 60-minute IPA, SeaQuench Ale
Founded in 1995, Sharkhead is one of the fastest-growing distilleries in the U.S. and is now the 13th largest craft distillery in the U.S., with more than 250 employees and producing 260,000 barrels of beer annually. Although Sharkhead has only about 0.1% of the beer market share in the United States, it has been able to outperform thousands of small breweries in the United States.
While the first generation of craft distilleries in the United States, such as Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams, who followed the European brewing tradition to brew beer, Shark Head of the second generation of the distillery did not do this, but instead looked to a variety of ingredients such as maple syrup, raisins, coffee, pumpkin and other ingredients into the beer. At the time, Shark Head was seen as a rebel against traditional winemaking, but the market says it all.
The 90-minute IPA is the most iconic creation of Sharkhead, in which the brewer boils the malt and pours hops into the wort for 90 minutes to create a rich wheat aroma and a looming citrus aroma that reveals hoppy flavors at different stages of boiling. This continuous hopping process was quite advanced and revolutionary in 2001, and the 90-minute IPA is considered one of the most important beers in the history of American craft beer, so if you're new to craft beer, be sure to put the 90-minute IPA on your must-try list.
The 90-minute IPA was a great success, and the Shark Head launched the 60-minute IPA and the 120-minute IPA while it was hot, of which the 120-minute IPA is a rather strong imperial IPA, the original wort concentration reached an astonishing 45 °P, the alcohol content was as high as 16.5%, and it was only brewed twice a year, which was rarely seen in China, and the 60-minute IPA was light and refreshing, with only 6% alcohol, and many people used it as ration wine. In 2011, the 75-minute IPA was created, the original 75-minute IPA was obtained by mixing 60-minute IPA and 90-minute IPA in wooden barrels, and the latest version of the 75-minute IPA was brewed from maple syrup, which was also boiled continuously for 75 minutes without stopping the hops.
SeaQuench Ale is a social beer launched by Shark Head in 2016, originally designed to go well with seafood, this light sour beer, using sea salt from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the coast of Maine, lime juice and extra black lime give it the main theme of the sourness, the overall refreshing and easy to drink, is an excellent social beer, has been voted the best low-calorie beer by Men's Health magazine for two consecutive years.
Most of the shark head beer can be found on Taobao and Jingdong, and the price is relatively close to the actual price, and the unit price of beer is between 20-30 yuan.