IPAs are an acquired taste, but the longer you drink craft beers the more likely you are to acquire it. As your palate becomes more refined, you start to appreciate different hop characteristics. Hop varieties have a wide range of flavors: floral, grassy, piney, citrusy, tropical, skunky, etc. If you're making a "proper" beer, a nuanced hop schedule is the easiest way to create a complex flavor. IPAs have probably the highest flavor variety of any style, and most of them are pretty good once you can appreciate hops.
Except anything with Simcoe, that stuff tastes like cat piss.
I've tried to enjoy IPAs, really. I'm not discounting the role of interesting terpenes and flavonoids here, but the raw in-your-face excessive bitterness of IPA-level hops pushes all that great stuff so far from the stage of my experience, that it's all left waiting in the lobby to get seated. For me, it's like someone mixed LaCroix, light beer, and a drop of dish soap in a glass. Every time.
Drink IPA without letting any air into your mouth and keep your tongue somewhat pressed against the roof of your mouth. It seems to block off the taste buds on top of the tongue and lets the beer wash around the sides of the tongue instead. This reduces the in-your-face bitterness and allows the secondary flavors to be noticed. At least that's how I started appreciating IPAs.
Hop varieties have a wide range of flavors: floral, grassy, piney, citrusy
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I was with you until the last sentence... From that, it's obvious you have no idea what you're talking about. /s
Except Sabro for me. Tastes like gin, which I hate.
Stouts and IPA are delicious.
Side note: Stone FFS bring back imperial Stout, you cunts.
"you Bastards" was right there
Fun fact: IPA stands for Indian Pale Ale. They were called that because they were shipped from England to India during the ole' days (1800s). The purpose was to preserve the beer via it's long journey to India. They would mellow out during the trip.
Eventually some idiots locally decided the massively hoppy beer tasted good, so it became popular in England as well, but sold as "Pale Ales". I'll argue it was never meant for human consumption.
There ARE craft beers that incorporate less hops and I hate that craft beer is now synonymous with hops or IPA. I hate heavy hops, but love hefeweizens, weiss, stouts, brown porters, Belgian dubble/tripels, lambics, wheats, bocks...
Nah my local expensive hipster craft beer place usually has 6 on tap. One will usually be a UK style ipa, 2-3 others will be a mix of USA/oceana style pale ales. One local brewery and one non pale ale (blonde, Porter, stout etc)
But you really can't tell until you try them.
I've had high ABV beers that actually did taste good, but they were never IPAs.
I'll give you an unpopular opinion in the opposite direction. I think most sweets and desserts are cloying as fuck and can't understand why people eat them, or at least want more than a bite or two. I pretty much only have taste buds for savory/bitter/salty tastes these days, and hot sauce and peppers are awesome.
Imagine thinking everyone enjoys the same things
Did you comment this about the OP as well? We're in shitpost and I was just trying to match the meme's vibe
this depends heavily on the specific candy/dessert IMO, solid sugar candy is fine because it dissolves slowly, but some stuff just detonates a sugar bomb on your tongue and it genuinely makes me shudder in bone-deep rejection of something that must be poison.
Swedish desserts are generally really enjoyable to me because they have a bunch of savoury with the sugar mostly coming from some sort of jelly or stuffing, like in cinnamon buns.
"Most." What are your top exceptions?
I guess fruit, or maybe sorbet? I dunno, I don't hate sweets, but it's more that I almost never want them. Like if my partner has a piece of cake or some ice cream after dinner I'll have a couple bites and it's fine, but I would've never bought the cake for myself in the first place. Late night snacks for me are things like popcorn/chips, not chocolate/gummies.
Just get your partner to wash their ass! It's also recommended to get an enema. Well, unless you're into that kind of thing, just make sure you're not immunocompromised.
Ah yes, I love iso propyl alcohol
Agreed! It’s really good at removing thermal paste from heat sinks on CPUs and other IC packages.
Unrelated to the OP, India Pale Ales are great-tasting beers
no no the meme is talking about the international phonetics alphabet
I like these things but there are IPAs, peppers, and asses out there that I wouldn't eat. I understand how it could be confusing though, when sometimes I say "this beer tastes like (bad) ass" or "this IPA is badass" or "eating this asshole is fire" or "this pepper is going to light my asshole on fire".
I used up all my taste acquisition credits coming around on coffee and tolerating alcohol at all. I have zero fucks left to give when it comes to training myself to like hops. The bitter little cancerous-asshole-looking motherfuckers may be necessary but I sure as hell don't want the entire experience shaped by them.
They're actually not even necessary, you can use things like heather or spruce instead. Personally I like those better
Am I supposed to know what a pepperhead is?
People who like eating spicy peppers
I developed a taste for IPAs purely through Stockholm syndrome
It's true love when they fart while you're eating.
Sometimes I want something bitter. If I want hot and bitter, I’ll drink coffee. If I want cold and bitter, I’ll have an IPA. I also like dark chocolate. Must just be something about bitterness that I enjoy.
beer is bitter. IPAs are sour.
I love beer. Fuck IPAs
Yeah the thing that made ipas make sense to me was imagining drinking grapefruit juice.
Me wondering why and how can people taste an iPhone app file (.ipa)
Yes, 🤓
Thank you! IPA sucks ass. Get something tasty like a blonde or triple.
I really shouldn't be having beer at all anymore, but I actually came to like a number of fairly hoppy IPAs. I do have issues with certain bitter things, but not others; I love black coffee, but I can't stand high-cacao dark chocolate and some herbs with bitter notes.
Ales and lagers are better
I love me some IPA, right up till you start adding adjectives... Hazy? Juicy? New England? West coast? No. Beer, hops, yum. Get the rest of that nonsense out of here. As a home brewer I refuse to get my Adjective IPA palate.
How do I know if it's gonna be a hazy new england? If I get a pale west coast it won't taste the same and I won't like it.
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