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 | | Pugsley brewed with brewery founder Peter Austin, a man he calls "the godfather of microbrewing," there back in the 1980s ("I started on January 4, 1982," Pugsley told me recently, "I'll never forget the date."), and that's where he met what became known as the Ringwood strain of yeast. |
 | | Full attenuation (it ferments fully all the available sugars in a beer), which means dry beers; lots of esters (the fruity aromas generated by ale yeasts); open fermentation (the top of the fermentation tanks must be open to the air); and diacetyl (a fermentation by-product that smells of butter or butterscotch). |
 | | This is not a hugely full-bodied beer (Ringwood is a rip-roarer in the fermenter and will eat anything that isn't locked up), but it slips over the tongue like golden syrup and really hits all the buzzers and bells. |
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