An IPA Argenta pours medium gold to medium reddish copper, sometimes with an orange tint, clear unless dry-hopped or brewed with unmalted wheat, under a good, persistent head. It tastes of the Argentine hop: pink grapefruit and tangerine peel lead, sometimes with orange blossom, herbs or resin. A medium to medium-high bitterness rests on clean malt, and the finish is dry and refreshing. Strength runs at 5–6.5%.
Where it comes from
Argentine brewers defined it in 2013 at meetings of the Somos Cerveceros association. The idea was a witbier’s pairing of citrus and wheat: up to 15% wheat, malted or not, with Argentine-grown hops such as Cascade, Mapuche and Nugget and a clean American yeast. The BJCP lists it as local style X2 and would place it with the IPAs; Antares and Kerze brew examples.
Next to its neighbours
It has the frame of an American IPA, but the hop character must come from Argentine varieties, with citrus in front.
IPA Argenta in numbers
- Classic examples
- Cervecería Antares, Kerze
- Original gravity
- 1.055–1.065
- Final gravity
- 1.008–1.015
- Also called
- Argentine IPA
- Classic examples
- Antares IPA Argenta; Kerze IPA Argenta
- BJCP style
- X2 IPA Argenta
Sources
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- X2. IPA Argenta, 2021 Beer Style Guidelines — Beer Judge Certification Program
