Ipas history

In 1978, Congress passed a law that legalized home brewing in the United States.

In 1988 after spending three years lobbying the Vermont legislature to legalize brewpubs, Greg opened the Vermont Pub & Brewery in Burlington, Vermont.

Jack Erickson's Brewery Adventures in the Wild West (1991), focused on the West Coast--IPA country if any was to be found.

Claims have been made that the recipe originated in Santa Rosa, CA, in 1994 at the Russian River Brewing Company.

Jennifer Trainer Thompson's The Great American Microbrewery Beer Book (1997), which covered the US, found barely more--just 8 of 187 beers identified.

Opening in November 2003 in Waterbury, Vermont, they named their brew pub The Alchemist Pub & Brewery after noticing a small symbol in the Vermont Pub & Brewery’s old logo, which Noonan explained was the alchemical symbol for fermentation.

Before the end of January 2004, Kimmich brewed the first version of Heady Topper, arguably the first NEIPA.

In 2010 he opened a small brewery on what used to be his grandfather’s homestead farm naming it simply Hill Farmstead.

“[There’s] absolutely zero evidence to support the idea that Hodgson’s beer was formulated or invented specifically for exportation to India,” writes acclaimed American brewer Mitch Steele in his 2013 book, IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale.

By about 2017, there were dozens of small craft breweries in virtually every state that were producing a version of a hazy NEIPA. Many if not most of these were small breweries that served only a small, local area.