west coast should unfilter beers

Stone is already doing it with Enjoy By Unfiltered IPA. Personally I like the distinction between the East and West Coast styles, but it seems that distinction has been getting blurred lately.

 

Most of them don't truly filter their beers. I'm sure in many cases its centrifuging. Which does not negatively effect beer in the way filtering them does.

 

Idk about stone But i will give you the Modern Times. I cant even Imagine how Booming Rollers would taste unfiltered.

 

An unfiltering machine is too expensive for most breweries.

 

Can I get a clear Heady Topper then, too?

I hope you understand the difference between filtered and clarified. A lot of smaller breweries do not have any sort of filtering capacity, including centrifuges, rather they use finings to create gorgeous beers.

Hazy and turbid IPAs are definitely hot right now. Personally I'd love to rely on the West Coast for dank, piny and clear golden beers.

 

Some are trying it, like Stone's Enjoy By unfiltered, but I think that the unfiltered game is the identity of the East Coast now. West Coast beers already have a well established tradition and profile. Sure, any brewery can try new things, and I appreciate experimentation, but changing classics just based on the fad of the unfiltered approach I think is unlikely/ unnecessary.

 

Get technical but a centrifuge is a filtering system.

 

True it is - but does not remove all yeast from the beer. Mostly it takes out denser particulates such as flocculated yeast.

 

Just dont get why all this Knit picking. They dont filter that us a sifter. They dont filter they us centrifuging. Like come one guys. Just answer the question what do you think about west coast making some Haze ( im not talking about tree house either before that stupid comment comes)!!!

 

I think the west coast should make beers how the west coasts wants. If that means someone on the west coast wants to make unfiltered beer, they should knock themselves out doing so.

 

My point was that its not close to 100% filtered. Centrifuging beers can still produce slightly hazy or turbid beers. But I see your point - you can always go to the extreme of a brewery like Trillium if you love the ultra hazy beers. Cheers!

 

I also like the differences. Sometimes I want a crisp west coast IPA and sometimes I want a hazy easy coast IPA. Sometimes both.

 

I'm pretty sure many people would (and do) say that New England needs to clean theirs up.
I like having both options and approaches.

 

They won't taste any different. It's all for looks.

 

Agreed. I haven't been impressed with the hazy NE IPA's, so I see no need for others to conform to that style. They should brew whichever style they prefer, and allow us consumers to choose what we like.

 

This assumes that by simply not filtering an IPA, it all of a sudden has the same flavor profile as the popular beers from the New England.

Stone Enjoy By Unfiltered does not taste similar to those beers in my opinion (it doesn't even look similar to the extremely turbid offerings). This isn't to say it wasn't a good beer, simply different (and to be honest, I didn't notice much of a difference between filtered and unfiltered Enjoy By).

 

Out here we have a few places starting to make them, so I like having the option. That said, we do have quite a few brewers (and even the owner of the Falling Rock) who think the whole hazy thing is a bad trend.