Capital to brew an IPA

When available NG IIPA is damn solid too.

Back to topic - I am looking forward to trying Capital's take on an IPA. It is a crowded market so it better be at least a stand up double or preferably a triple.

 

I do not hesitate, if Two Hearted, Finestkind and Furious are Top notch then Lakefront is aswell.... But Maybe that is why IPAs are the most popular style, there is something for everyone! I prefer a citrus heavy Ipa with a nice bitter bite and I have yet to find one with Lakefronts quality.... That being said, my order is

Two Hearted
Lakefront
Bedlam
Ballistic

So as you can see I am parcial to the fruity Hops

 

jsut drink a lagunitas sucks it is usually cheaper and smokes lakefront

 

actually yeah i forgot that one but it is limited

 

Ya..... I guess we will have to agree to disagree... I have gone throu 6 6ers of Sucks, but that is because it is only around for a limited time... If it were around all the time I would grab bot Maximus and Lakefront IPA over it!

 

interesting... you might be the first person to ever like maximus over sucks.

 

Anything on the shelves that follow these methods and you'd recommend?

See, I was trying the sours (Berlienr Weiß, Gueuze) many years ago and readily admit that I couldn't wrap my palate around them. That said, I don't begrudge others who like them, they just don't grab me.

Same with BA beers. They were interesting when they first became popular, now they're all the same to me. I'm just evolving after 20+ years of home-brewing, micro-brewing, craft-brewing -- at least I haven't regressed back to macros -- I still like good beer!

 

To my original comment about that already crowded market -- something that's hot? Where has he been for the last 10 years? And -- if hot is flooding the market, it's garnered a new definition from what I ever understood.

Heh -- I still haven't tried their Pale. Wanted to, but whenever I see it on a shelf there are just too many other things I'd rather try (although, that's sort of hypocritical on my part because I tried NG's Moon Man and enjoyed it).

 

This will be cool to try, but I will agree with many others on this thread that there's already some great IPA's/Pale Ales/BIPA's/DIPA's here in WI, so it's not as if we desperately need another one. Off the top of my head:

New Glarus Moon Man
New Glarus IIPA (when really fresh)
Ale Asylum Ballistic IPA
Ale Asylum Bedlam
Lake Louie Kiss the Lips IPA
Lake Louie Arena Pale Ale
Tyranena Scurvy
Tyranena BGW La Femme Amere
Tyranena BGW Hop *****
Leinie's Big Eddy Imperial IPA (yup, I went there)

 

Scurvy was a good beer.

 

I'd have to dig deeper to figure that out. They aren't all the same, not sure where you are coming form with that statement. Ill go in say all german pilseners or altbiers or hefeweizens are the same then.

 

You left out the, "Now...to me." "Now they're all the same to me."

And yes, I can probably dissect different flavor characters from them, but they just don't excite me like they do others -- sours never have.

Jever = Bitburger?
Schneider = Erdinger?

And there just aren't enough Alts imported here to claim any real distinction, but I'll ask:

Metropolitan = Uerige? Maybe, but that's a good equality!

 

Im just saying there is a far greater range of ingredients and barrels used in those beers than the ones i mentioned, there is no way they can all be the same.

 

We're not going to get into that whole perception argument are we? You might like oysters and I might like salmon, but we may not like the other. I just haven't found BA beers to be all that greatly different for me to try every one that hits the shelves.

And yes, there are plenty other styles that hit me the same way, IPA included.

And I'll keep clarifying myself -- doesn't mean they aren't good, just means they aren't mind-blowing beverages to make me go back again and again. I'm just a hard sell anymore.

 

But if you age a beer in a wine barrel and another in a boubon barrel they will taste totally different, how long you age them in each will also affect the flavor, then add in adjuncts and you ahve even more flavors, an IPA with tettnanger hops is far different than one with summit. I find it hard to believe that someone who can taste the entire spectrum of a pilsener can't taste the entire spectrum of other beers. Enjoy what you want but I feel like you are always posting negative things about non-german styles and it seems like you don't have any good reasons for it. We get it, you have been around the block but don't be afraid of whats out there, there are so many more options for variance now than there were 20 years ago it is insane. I just feel a huge negativity coming for just about anything being brewed nowadays and i am puzzled why.

 

Huh? Didn't I just say above that I could dissect the characters? Listen now and listen good: I DON'T LIKE BARREL AGED BEERS. I don't care that you like them, great for you -- I'm not going to throw mud at you for that.

And I've told you how many time? I'm bored. Sorry, nothing has swayed that in the past few years -- no IPA, no Imperial Stout, no Barrel-aged, Citra, pomegranate-infused Pilsner. Sorry that you can't get your arms around that, but It's true.

Always posting negative things about non-German styles? Have you read anything I've posted or reviewed? It sure as hell doesn't sound like it. Sorry that I think there are too many IPAs on the shelves, I'm not the only one.

Cross, you're just getting irritating now, I'm walking away from this because your ignorance toward my opinion is unfounded and has become downright mean and insulting -- and I haven't said anything bad about your opinions at all. Back off and look a the way you're raving.

 

I'm not raving, I'm just befuddled and I think bias has something to do with it. I am not debating what you do or don't like just the reasons for not liking something. At any rate I agree this conversation has gone on long enough. Cheers and drink more pilseners, hope you see the light at some point cause there is exciting variety out there.

 

BS. Hop Whoopin is awesome and so is the new glarus thumbprint IIPA.