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IPA or India Pale Ale was a term coined in the early 1800's by a savvy business man who had a brewery located near the docks from which the East India Company ships or "Indiamen" as they were referred set sail.  His beer was good apparently, but his terms were great as he afforded the ships' owners credit allowing them to take the beer and not pay for it until their hopeful return from voyage.  While there is much discussion on the ingredients of this beer being extra in hops and alcohol to survive the journey across the seas, they evidence does not bear this.  It appears that the style of beer, unlike the porters of the time being consumed in England, were designed for a much hotter and muggy climate as found in India.  The beer was actually originally referred to as a "pale ale for India".  It was not for some time that the name for the beer was coined, India Pale Ale or IPA