New England IPA

Mine was a joke too. Hi Im theewalrushunter. I make jokes.

 

Thank you all for proving my point.

accumulation of events it is.

 

Completely inline with my thoughts. What's the distinguishing difference? A different SRM number?

 

Did we learn nothing from Tupac and Biggie? Can't we all just get along?

 

Please send the letter, so I can tell my local brewery that they need to rename their IPAs to New England IPAs because they are cloudy and fruity.

 

Seems there's only one way to settle this question - an all-out IPA Civil War!!! But this time it's East vs. West. No Confederate flags. No American flags. No blue uniforms. No gray uniforms. No patriotic slogans from the past. Each side will need to come up with their own flag, uniforms, slogans, etc. That's all I have - someone else needs to fill in the important details.

 

Go ahead, it's a good idea. Looks like it's you and yourself in favor of such a submission.

 

If I can see through my IPA when held up to a light I don't want it.

 

Why bother, none of the breweries in the NE ever win at the judged events and they still sell every drop that they can make.

If beers are judged a certain way, so be it. There is a big difference between being judged the best and tasting awesome, I'd take the latter over a trophy any day.

 

Thanks @WillemHC ! I've heard a few of these but know what I'll be researching for my wish list!

 

The OP poses a great question that I feel I need to ponder. Please send me roughly a dozen of these famous IPAs. I'll drink them, form an opinion one way or the other and then get back to you.

Deal?





More serious response: 1) Unless I'm incorrect, West Coast IPA isn't even an official classification. I think there's nothing wrong with using that as a descriptor, but it shouldn't be formally codified without better reason. Same for Boston/East Coast/Northeast/whatever IPAs. 2) While these are some of the best examples of the cloudy, tropical IPAs I've tried, this isn't new or unique to NE. Previous posters have already listed out a dozen or more West Coast breweries that have been doing this for awhile, some for a very long time.

So, no.

 

You're correct sir and that's pretty much the best answer on both areas. Use "New England" or "Vermont" ipa to describe a beer but it's own category no.

 

The only real difference between "New England" and other American IPAs is filtering, which has little to no impact on flavor. That's not enough for a new style.

 

Are you implying that if you drink more of them, you'll think they deserve a new style classification?

 

I think you need to drink less of them. They're making your heady cloudy.

 

The "uniqueness" argument is a strawman. As with plenty of other beers and other food items, geographic descriptions are used, not to be literal about its origin, but to describe a style prominent in such areas. I can go outside in NYC and find Chicago style pizza, New England clam chowder and yes, West Coast IPAs, made right here.

I think it's fair to say that there are certain characteristics found in a number of prominent NE IPAs that, in particular, distinguish those IPAs from West Coast style IPAs, which was largely the "default" type of IPA for a lot of people getting into craft beer. I don't have a view on "official categories" and the like, but NE-style or VT-style IPAs seem like perfectly valid descriptors given the breadth and variety of IPAs out there these days.

 

Lexington MA disagrees. The colonists at Jamestown were British subjects, the Floridians Spanish.