I like IPAs and I'm secure enough to not be bothered by the mockery my basic brothers and I face online.
Those dudes are so basic the pic looks ai-generated.
IP-AI?
you seem racist
Ah, projecting our own thoughts onto others I see.
I don't get it? IPAs are good year round.
I don't care what other people drink. In fact I love it when people show me their favorite drinks. Even if I don't like it I enjoy the experience of something new. I get bored very easily.
That being said, I moved to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago and it seems like local breweries only make IPAs. They'll have like eight local or inhouse brews and 7 will be IPAs. I just miss the variety I used to be able to find in other parts of the country. It also seems a little lazy and uncreative on the brewery's side.
Good beer is good beer.
I don't get it.
I don't even like IPAs all that much.
But like... Pumpkin Spice is a seasonal artificial flavor that is I think annoying to people because it's made its way into everything from marshmallows to crackers to milk.
IPA is a style of beer. That's it.
IPAs don't even taste the same, people just think of the (ex: Sierra Nevada) hoppy taste and assume it's all like that.
I don't know if it's like this where you are, but in Scandinavia if you like beer but don't like IPAs, you're shit out of luck for like the last five years at least. It has completely taken over the beer aisles at like 70 % of the offering. As someone who hates that bitter taste with a passion, the fact that it makes the selection of beers that I enjoy so much smaller, means it's akin to how I imagine pumpkin spice taking over in the US during fall, except it isn't just seasonal.
It's not even a seasonal style of beer.
They're both popular, and something that you can just not buy if you don't like them, but people like to complain about because they see the popular thing around, and it bothers them.
Also, pumpkin spice doesn't have to be artificial. It's just the spices found in pumpkin pie. It's usually just cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and ginger.
It can be artificial, but it's like complaining that "apple" is a seasonal artificial flavor.
I'm German. I look down upon these pesants. The best beer is dark and unfiltered. Anything else cannot compare.
I’ve had your beer while in your country. Much respect and all given the history and contributions to beer over all, but after a week…it got boring.
I’m happy to be a peasant with never ending variety of styles and variations within styles without being hamstrung by some unimaginative and restrictive laws.
There's variety too, you just didn't get to see it during your stay. The laws are now much more liberal than they used to be.
But yeah, when you go to a basic place, many German beers have a similar character I would say. Normally there's just the difference between light, dark, (red), weizen and then the mixed ones.
I never liked beer until I tried it in Germany. I’m here now on vacation, a Radler is probably my preference just for sweet tooth but even the basics go down nicely.
Canadian IPA is dark and unfiltered.
Dark beer is for winter and autumn. IPA is for spring, summer, and not going off on a sea voyage to the colonies.
Edit: also when I was in Germany I mostly drank white wine. Germany is the only country that produces palatable white wine, whereas good beer can be had in many countries.
Germany is the only country that produces palatable white wine
Wow wow wow, take it easy there, them are some fighting words.
It's the middle of Oktoberfest season, and you went with IPAs for this meme?
Not to mention, there's literally pumpkin spice beer.
Well, they couldn't go with Helles because it's actually good.
Oktoberfest beers (Märzens) literally have carmel malts, they're the Starbucks of beers.
Vegans, PSL girls, IPA guys, furries, and anime nerds seem to be the most popular targets for boring, basic memes.
I'm German too, while I usually prefer southern german beer with a strong wheat, malt and yeast flavour I also occasionally like to explore other flavours like IPA or more exotic ones from different countries. I mean, drink what you like or don't drink at all (which might be better, health-wise). Gates open, come on in.
The best part is, I can have an IPA all year round!
Everyone who doesn't get it needs to read this.
It can be quickly summarized to the line in the article, "marketers have an insatiable appetite for turning human enjoyment into target-based profit". Couple that with the fact that females tend to receive more ridicule for their consumption habits, and you've got this article.
Hasn't aged a day
Rage bait.
OP just doesn't know good beer. (shrug)
Yeah that's not how ipas work.
if it isnt brewed in a monestary in belgium whats even the point #notlikeotherguys
But Abbey beers are the shit though.
That’s pretty true. People are so passionate about having an ipa
Beer is great
But have you had
You know what's better?
Free beer!
Except (in my own subjective opinion) if it's too hoppy and IPA is the kangaroo of beers.
Something I should mention: I do like IPAs (not only IPA but they are tasty) and can find all 3 of the style of shirt in this weird AI looking stock image in my closet.
Soooooo...
cant get much else craft beer wise where i live.
i like a porter ale but theres only like one shop that does one.
Stouts are nice but guinness is overplayed. Brewdog have released a stout that seems to be doing well though, but i like variety
I have no idea what any of those words mean
...International Phonetic Alphabets?
Linguists are such basic removed
Yeah, but I don't drink 16 pumpkin spice lattes in one sitting.
You ok, friend?
No, but ask me again after 16 Ninkasi Prismatics and the answer might change.
IPAs aren't really seasonal? I always associate fall with Marzen style lagers for Oktoberfest, and big winter warmers like barleywine and sweet stouts.
To be honest, as a French from Lille (which means I have access to a whole lot of beers) the very first time I drank an American Pale Ale it tasted like a lighter, more subtle IPA.
I’ve never really considered hops to be an interesting flavor. It’s just… flat and bitter to me.
I truly don’t understand why so many people love IPAs, or try to sneak extreme hoppiness into other beer styles. (An IPA with fruit juice is not a saison! And a 70 IBU “kolsch” is a war crime!)
As a person who prefers the complex, bright and earthy flavors from grains and yeast, getting face-fucked at the end of every sip by a one-note weed pine cone is so disappointing.
one-note weed pine cone
Single greatest description of the taste of IPA I've ever read.
I am not an IPA fan for the same reasons. The problem are the Brewers thinking they can just add any old hop into the mix and expect it to taste good. Then you have the consumers freaking out over a 120 IBU DIPA even though, on average, the human pallet is unable to taste anything beyond 70 IBU with an average threshold of a out 4 IBU.
Don't get me wrong, I have had some great IPAs, but the places I've enjoyed them were places that knew what they were doing. Barely any bitterness and all the hop flavor and aromas.
I used to work as a brewer where the owner wouldn't let us make any recipes of our own. All the recipes that he made us use, regardless of the style of beer, had an unforgivable amount of hops to it. The stout? 80 IBU. Fuck you, Dave.
I'm not a big beer drinker, but there are few things as disappointing as finding a bar that serves stout on tap, then discovering it's been all hopped up.
Jesus.
If you see Dave around, tell him I think his management style is as unpalatable as his beer.
I'm the opposite. I prefer a pale ale over an IPA, but recently I found hoppy larger and it is great. I find straight larger so tasteless most of the time.
Though if I am only drinking 1 or 2 beers for the night then I would choose a dark beer.
I don't have a refined palette, and I like fairly hoppy beers. It has to have a good flavor to it though. If it's made hoppy for the sake of IBUs, then it's probably bad. Like joke hot sauces are disgusting, but there are some that are delicious but really painful for me to eat, even one bite.
Older IPA hops like cascade are great but only slightly hop heavy with their classic hop flavors. The hops used more recently (I think citra and mosaic?) have great flavors when pushed to high IBUs.
Hops have amazing range. Fuggles smell like dirt. Lemondrop has a strong citrus smell.
About half of beer variety is from hops. Unless your talking about Belgians. Then it's all yeast.
While making my earlier comment, I actually looked it up to see if maybe there was something unusual about my perception of hops, but didn’t want to overload folks with info. It seems that some people are more sensitive to bitter tastes, such as those in hops, and some folks can’t taste them at all. It’s like if the whole cilantro/soap thing were less a dichotomy, and more of a spectrum. (And I’m one of the people to whom cilantro tastes like soap.)
That’s not to say I don’t recognize or value the contribution of hops to beer, but hops aren’t the primary driver of most beers flavor profile, nor should they be. In most beer styles, the bitterness of the hops are used to balance the sweetness of the malt so the beer doesn’t taste like syrup. This allows other flavors in the malt to come out, or flavors from the yeast to say hi.
For me it’s a very fine line. I think I’m more sensitive than the average person.
If the bitterness does more than balance, then it dominates all other flavors, including any flavors within the hops themselves. It’s just bitter, flat, and tastes like how bad weed smells.
I don’t believe it’s a matter of unrefined taste. I can talk to you all day about floral notes of lightly roasted grains, the heavier flavors of darker roasted malts, or what kind of funk a yeasty beer has.
But hops. Too much, and it’s just one flavor for me. I think the only time I’ve been able to enjoy a hop’s flavor was when I ate a fresh one on a brewery tour.
I truly don’t understand why so many people love IPAs
Flavor nuance. I don't like hopsy beer myself, but there's a LOT of different profiles out there. I've even found a few IPAs I liked.
As a person who prefers the complex, bright and earthy flavors from grains and yeast, getting face-fucked at the end of every sip by a one-note weed pine cone is so disappointing.
That I'll agree with. Not a lot of drinkers respect the mashbill anymore.
If they weren't so overplayed it wouldn't be so bad, but every microbrew has like 3 IPAs, 2 dry-hopped pilsners, and a seasonal novelty that if you're lucky is something noticably different like a wheat beer or a porter.
I brew my own and I basically the same spread. Ipa is just the base beer and everything else is a change of pace.
IPA stands for....
Insert pecker anally
Internally Prolapsed Anus
Inebriated Pale Anglos
Isopropyl alcohol (don't drink it)
Insipid Piss Analogue
Introspective penile assessment
I made ye. Wake up.
If you like IPAs, that's fine. If you're buying someone, like me, a beer at karaoke, trust me when I say that I want the cheap Modelo or Milwaukee's Best on tap. Don't buy me an IPA that costs twice as much, but I won't drink it cause it tastes bad.
Oh, ew! Why would it cost more than a dollar more than Pabst? You're not in the Northwest are you? I assure you there are fantastic ones that are palatable to any palate and don't cost a fortune
Haw!
Are you a wrestler? Because you just did an excellent half Nelson 😉
A new craft brewery opens, the beer list is 3 IPAs, a double hopped IPA, a triple, and a bowl of hops spritzed with bitrex.
Oh, is that what they are? I thought they were just bottled cat piss...
Shipyard Pumpkin ale is better than a latte and almost as good as a yummy NEIPA.
Yes OP you are very unique and smart.
Pumpkin IPAs are where it's at!
Breweries just don't want to invest the time and effort it takes to brew good porters, baltics, stouts and barkeywines anymore. Where are the dubbels and triples and red ales? Scotch ale, ever heard of it? What happened to the variety? Laziness and cost cutting. Nothing but bitter piss as far as the eye can see. I quit drinking over a year ago, but sometimes I think I'd like a beer, till I look at the wall of IPAs that passes for a beer isle. Then the urge is gone.
The craft beer isle has all sorts of options at my grocery store. About half are IPAs but there's plenty of other options. Maybe you need to try a different store.
I haven't had any opportunity to try a barleywine that wasn't my wash going into a still, so you're right on that one. That said, there's fairly limited profiles to a lot of those types of beers.
IPAs do have a lot of variety, and all you have to do to change it up is use different hops. I don't love IPAs, and I hate that they're all I see in beer aisles, but I also don't shop beer very much so whatever :)
I can take you to my local beer store in suburban Pittsburgh and show you each style you listed, alongside fruit sours, goses, and a pretty incredible variety of ciders. Pittsburgh is a hard drinking town, but I don't think our craft beer scene is leaps and bounds ahead of other similarly-sized cities. What that tells me is that the beer you (used to) want is there if you look and that you're more bitter than the 2x NEIPA that you're railing against.
