Imperial Pale Ale?

Just my observance:
Imperial anything - high alcohol...high price... can be boozy. Definitely NOT sessionable.
Imperial or Double IPA - in addition to high ABV, also high IBU...
Dogfish Head has a 120 Minute. Awesome on draft. Ridiculously expensive in the bottle.
I almost dropped the 4-pack when I was told the price of $37.00.
Sorry...
F#*k That!

 

Just found bell ringer in Kroger in a different package with it saying imperial pale ale. Bell ringer is 8% and considered a strong ale and not bad at 10.99.

 

Baxter Brewing has released an Imperial Hefeweizen. After having a pint, all I could think was "this imperial fad needs to have some boundaries."

 

There are plenty of imperial adjunct lagers. Sapphire, Bud Light Platinum, Steel Reserve, Natty Daddy to name a few and wtf is Four Loko?

 

That may just be their execution. Try a Weihenstephaner Vitus, and I bet you'll want more beers just like that one in the end.

 

I thought it had to do with bitterness.

 

Style has always, always been about marketing. A stout used to be the strongest beer that a brewery in England made and they could be blond beers. A tripel just used 3 x more ingredients than the basic offering, leading to a higher alcohol and thus higher price. Historically tripel could be anything and they only became blond when Westmalle tripel became hugely popular. The term just came to mean, this tastes like Westmalle tripel. Imperial Pale Ale may sound silly but if it is informative to most of DFH customers it is the right term to use. The only reason why people are ever disappointed about a beer not being true to their style expectations is because they were just fooled by bad marketing. Style definition have no other reason of existence but to communicate a message as to how something is going to taste like to a customer. Who knows if people like this beer, Imperial Pale Ale might become a standard term like quadrupel did.

 

Yes. Have one Nooberhausen Imperial Session Ale and you're done!

 

I say session, you say saison..I say tomato, you say tomahto...

 

with my experience of ipas i say an imperial ipa is more sweet at the end and more balanced a dipa is really bitter and floral. the imperial pale ale dfh comes out with is balanced and just high in alcohol like more of there beers.

so, iipa= imperial pale ale. lol

 

as long as it is a great beer breweries can call them whatever they want is far as I'm concerned. Half Acre Double Daisy Cutter, Three Floyd's Permanent Funeral and Revolution Double Fist are all called double pale ales and they are all spectacular.

 

There are tomato saisons! What a world! (tomahto?)

 

I think that's called malt liquor.

 

Honestly we were just fucking around. I didn't know other people were making Imperial Pale ale as well. We are obviously a dog-themed brewery and each beer has a dog or dog has a beer I guess. We had 23 dogs in the kennel and try to pair 1 beer to each dog and then also an Imperial for that same dog/beer. Since Howler is the dog on our Pale Ale - we Imperialized it (that's a new word) hence Imperial Pale Ale. At 10.2% abv and 97 IBU's its a DIPA or Imperial IPA is that kind of stuff is important to you.

 

I could care less about what you call it. It's all about the liquid inside and it was delicious. Thanks for trekking it to Madison.

 

I thought an imperial pale ale was basically a barleywine...

 

Some people drank too many imperial somethings before posting in this thread...

 

I think you mean you couldn't care less. Unless you actually care a small amount.