Amager Sigtebroad Double Dry Hopped IPA

Country: Denmark Brewery: Amager Style: IPA – India Pale Ale Format: 500ml Bottle ABV: 6.8% Once Amager Bryghus and Trillium Brewing Co. had decided to do a beer together, some investigative brewer research started on both sides of the Atlantic. Trillium main man Jean Claude Tetreault (JC) came across the name of an old Danish type of bread called 'Sigtebrød', and we decided to aim for a beer with mostly the same ingredients as in this old style of bread. However, we wouldn't be Amager if we didn't dig a little deeper into the matter. It appears that the word 'sigte' – in English 'to aim' – can be taken back to the Viking era, where a 'Sigtebrød' would be baked very hard as a substitute for a traditional longbow in areas where wood was scarce or even absent. After the victorious battle the Viking could then toast their bread bow on a traditional Anglo Saxon toaster. Illustrations of this bread bow have been found in several places in Ireland and Scotland, but no…