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本周,奥斯卡布鲁斯啤酒厂,美国罐头工艺啤酒运动的祖父,announced他们将在铝包装阵容中带来新的酿造:墨西哥风格的啤酒箱。

Though the Longmont, Colorado-based brewery has a history as an innovator, when it comes to American craft breweries producing and canning Mexican-style lagers, believe it or not, Oskar Blues is slightly behind the trend. On the southern side of their state, Durango’s Ska Brewing has been making their Mexican Logger Mexican-style lager since 1999 and canning it since 2011. Meanwhile, last year, another elder statesman of the craft can movement, San Francisco’s 21st Amendment Brewery, introduced cans of their El Sully cerveza, which they’ve been testing out for about five years.

全国各地的其他4,000多个啤酒厂也一直在尝试自己的手,无论他们对墨西哥边境的靠近。在中西部,俄亥俄州的大湖泊酿造公司最近敬酒2016年开始,他们的新墨西哥啤酒和密歇根州密歇根州的安娜堡,狼獾国家酿造的签名夏季季节性是他们的Verano Mexican-Style Amber Lager

那么这个墨西哥爱来自哪里?它肯定不是唐纳德特朗普的礼貌。相反,它是美国啤酒市场中多种趋势的融合。

严格从数字的角度来看,而来自美国最大的生产者,Anheuser-Buarch Inbev和Millercoors的销售额grown stagnant,两个区域的标志et that have seen large growth are craft beer and墨西哥品牌。Though craft brewers prefer to tout creativity over filling demand, it’s only natural to give beer lovers what they want. “People want a decently-built light beer that’s not made by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate,” explains21世纪修正创始人和Brewmaster Shaun O'Sullivan,谈到墨西哥最着名的墨西哥品牌是如何由大公司购买的。

托马斯拉森,Ska的Brewmaster,同意这些啤酒的需求和爱在那里。“我认为这对啤酒有很多人的首次介绍,这是一点怀旧的,”他告诉我。“有时候,即使我们垃圾摧毁了世界的光损失,我们就会渴望那个!”

墨西哥遗产也发挥了最近的酒精“会议”啤酒的趋势 - Beerito,墨西哥登录器和el Sullly均超过5%的ABV - 使它们成为完美的清爽夏季替代于那里的所有高辛烷件。这些相对简单的食谱可以被视为反对永无止境的超级跳跃,高醇或过度实验贝尔斯的反馈的一部分。

And as strange as it sounds, craft brewers tackling Mexican-style beers fits into another American beer tradition as well: innovation. US brewers have been reinventing foreign styles for as long as Americans have been drinking beer. The big ubiquitous American brands are all derivative of German lagers. Craft beer’s signature India Pale Ale is just a new take on a traditional English style. And plenty of American breweries have been obsessed for decades with recreating Belgian beers in the States. Though Mexico might not have the same beer pedigree as those brewing heavy weights, comparatively, bringing American craft beer sensibilities to Mexican brews is still relatively unexplored territory.

然而,真正有助于推动趋势,这是许多这些新啤酒都善良。例如,从你把鼻子推到鼻子的那一刻起,你马上就会迎接你所期望的所有笔记,你的传统墨西哥啤酒等梅斯科。它通过设计建造。“酵母是关键的成分,”O'Sullivan说,他们公开承认有一个人的讽刺用爱尔兰遗产酿造墨西哥啤酒在美国。“我们正在使用墨西哥风格的啤酒酵母菌株,它散发出这种辛辣,几乎草本票据。它与英国啤酒酵母或美国啤酒酵母非常不同。“另一个关键成分是片状玉米,在许多墨西哥酿造中发现的辅助。“这将使它带来轻微的玉米味和香气,”O'Sullivan继续。“它添加了让啤酒照亮并使它变得更加清爽。”

SKA的Larsen对墨西哥记录器有类似的解释。“对于我们来说,这是从墨西哥城的啤酒厂采购的酵母,这真的是什么让它与美国啤酒不同,”他说。“另一个主要区别是使用玉米而不是米饭。”

现在,春天正式在这里,天气开始变暖,你可能会感到怀旧地向自己迈向经典的墨西哥啤酒品牌。当然,你可以始终抓住一只电晕,凝固,pacifico等,但是如果您正在寻找一个旧的最喜欢的款式的新手,请留意美国制造的墨西哥风格的遗产。你可能会在架子上看到比你预期的更多。