ages that love hoppy beers!

As simple/general as that sounds...scarily accurate.

 

Don't get me wrong...love me some Germans and some Belgians too Could never really get into English though. And liquor/mixed drinks cover my entire timeline...haha.

 

Age doesn't matter it's all about your genes if you like IPA's or not: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/ptc/

 

I've been a fan of hops since ~1964 when I had my first Ballantine XXX, with my Dad's approval. He actually poured it for me.

 

No offense, but as a simple/general rule, that sounds like it was pulled out of thin air with absolutely no factual basis, only anecdotal statements: "Hey! My three beer-drinking friends and I all followed that line so it must be true!"

 

Scary. Add wine to mixed drinks / no beer and that also is my time line. A lot of young folks on here don't understand there was a time when there was pretty much no American craft beer. I bet I enjoy hoppy beers as much as anyone on this site, and have consumed as many, or more, but due to age also have consumed much more of the truly crap beers. My younger friends don't understand it when I refuse to drink any more crap beer, even when there is no other choice, that it is because I have had as many in my life already as all of them put together likely ever will.

 

I'm 26 and hugely into hops right now. Didn't start liking it right away though, started with milder beer and worked up. I like my hoppy ipas, but i'm also looking into more krieks and sours.

 

24, and the hoppier the better. out of my friends i'm the only one though.

 

As a general rule that's probably true, but I'm 64 years old, and can't get enough hops!

 

I'm all for the hoppiest of hoppy beers. Had a take a break, because nothing was hoppy enough for me. Even my homebrews that I just bombed with hops.

The biggest surprise, is my father. He's a beer drinker, and has always liked SA and shit like that. German beers, but the man will DOWN an DIPA faster than I can. He'll wreck every bottle of Hoptimum I could keep from him this summer for some reason... Now he drinks a fair bit of DFH beers for some reason.. It's wild when your ol' man comes to visit and asks for shit that you don't have because you are taking a break from it.

 

LOL while I do like them, put a strong IPA or a thick porter / stout in front of me and that bad boy is gone you can have the hop head!!!

 

Poll is flawed IMO ... the under 35 will obviously be a bigger showing on pretty much anything you ask. That is a huge range.

 

The key phrase: "...at least in my experience."

As I said before, if you get out of your own circle of friends & family, you'll see these sweeping generalizations have little basis in fact. I would suggest that young people are just as resistant to get out of their comfort zones as any other demographic, which would explain things like college age people drinking American Adjunct lagers in massive numbers despite the booming craft scene, and continuing to do so after they graduate. Or 30 somethings being stuck on 80s rock, and forty somethings still insisting that the Rolling Stones are the world's greatest band and yadayadayada...

Age has very little to do with being willing to try something different. That's a bunch of hype created by our cultural obsession with youth.

 

^This.

Here's some stats that back their criticisms:
http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/poll-so-how-old-are-all-you-beeradvocates.10603/

 

I refuse to answer. I don't like the range that my age falls into.

 

I just turned 27 a couple month ago and I started getting into craft beer sometime around age 17-19, back when it was still "illegal" for me to drink in my country. It was very shortly after I got into beer to begin with.I started off with Irish dry stouts, decent lagers like Sam Adams, porters, etc. I also tried IPAs around the time, but honestly, I always preferred the maltier beers. I keep going to the IPA and Imperial IPA styles every once in a while, and while I've found a few that are especially good, I am really not a fan of them in general. It really is hard for me to find examples of these styles that I truly enjoy to the point of wanting to buy it again; I usually like them for what they are, but I just never really care to drink them again later. They're just not my style.

Sierra Nevada's Torpedo is one stand-out; it has an amazingly hoppy flavor and it's damn good, and it's actually a surprise that it's supposedly an IPA--it seems like its bitterness is hidden somewhere in the raw flavor of the hops and the malts. Based on the bitterness level that I perceive, it reminds me more of a plan IPA. And that's what I like; those hop flavors are there, and bitterness is there too, but the bitterness is not so overpowering that you can barely taste the actual flavors of the hops. I have also tried a couple Cascadian dark ales, and I especially liked the "dark beer" flavors I might expect with some kind of stout or something.. Not only do I just like that particular flavor profile of dark beers, the hops seem to work quite well with them.

Still though, I prefer darker ales that are either a bit maltier or more balanced. A bit hoppier is not bad either, just not my preference, as long as it doesn't go overboard. And if they do go extreme with the hops, it better have the malts to back it up--I've drank some beers that had 75-90 IBU, and I loved them. Why? They packed tons of malts to balance it all out. Many of my favorites of the beers I've tried (those that actually have the IBU information labeled or on the brewer's site) were below 50 IBU though--so I definitely wouldn't consider myself a hophead. I gotta have hops--can't live without their flavors and bitterness in a beer--but I'm more of a malt kind of guy. They should be used in moderation, or be backed with enough malts to counter the bitterness if used in extreme amounts.

I don't consider myself to be a "hop lover," so I didn't vote.

 

OK, so it obviously doens't apply to you. That's ok. "Hey! This isn't how it went for me so it must be completely false!"

See I can do it, no offense of course.

 

You miss my main point: "...it was pulled out of thin air with absolutely no factual basis, only anecdotal statements."

I didn't say it was "completely false" I was responding to the idea that the progression is accurate for the beer population in general. Probably true for you, but not a general rule for the way people's beer interests change. That's kind of the idea of this thread; general surveys of the beer population as to age and other factors.