Why does everybody think everything is an IPA?

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  1. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    Recent threads

    Suggestions on Malty/balanced IPA's?

    IPA/DIPA with a sweeter taste to it?

    The first: Remember that thing called a pale ale?
    The second: Try looking toward old ales, maybe even barleywines.

    Recent brewers' propensity to come out with things called black IPA, Belgian IPA, American-Belgo IPA, white IPA, India pale lager for chrissake...
    I fully expect soon to see German IPA, dopplIPA, Kristal weiss-IPA, dark ice IPA, you name it.

    So why the fuck does everything have to be an IPA these days? We realize that some of these beers are different right?

    It's a good thing nobody in this country believes in something absolutely crazy like an English IPA.

    eh, thoughts?
     
    #1 jmw, Mar 19, 2013
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  2. victory4me

    victory4me Initiate (0) Oct 16, 2004 Pennsylvania

    Spectacular.
     
    #2 victory4me, Mar 19, 2013
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  3. Qwest_35

    Qwest_35 Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2013 Florida

    Wait you mean there are other styles?? You trolling?
     
    #3 Qwest_35, Mar 19, 2013
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  4. Jips

    Jips Pundit (757) Nov 29, 2007 Illinois

    IMO "Ipa" doesn't mean "india pale ale" anymore. "Ipa" is a marketing term for a hop-forward beer. Might as well pronounce it "ip-uh"
     
    #4 Jips, Mar 19, 2013
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  5. Fenski

    Fenski Pundit (791) Apr 24, 2008 Ohio
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    I love hops and all its cousins and step-cousins.
     
    #5 Fenski, Mar 19, 2013
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  6. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,348) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    I will go out on a limb and say its called innovation. In a cooler full of IPA's you stand out if yur label reads "black IPA" or "rye IPA". Back in the day cell phones were bricks, the firt flip phone out there people flocked to. So everyone copied that desgn and it too became passe.
     
    #6 SFACRKnight, Mar 19, 2013
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  7. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    why the hell do we need a cooler full of IPAs??
     
    #7 jmw, Mar 19, 2013
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  8. loafinaround

    loafinaround Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2011 New York

    now that you pointed it out, it does sound ridiculous to say "belgian IPA".
    But you'll also never get this sucks ***** to badmouth the genre known as IPA. :stuck_out_tongue:
     
    #8 loafinaround, Mar 19, 2013
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  9. tectactoe

    tectactoe Pooh-Bah (2,386) Mar 20, 2012 Michigan
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    Why is everyone so concerned with what everyone else is drinking?
     
    #9 tectactoe, Mar 19, 2013
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  10. Qwest_35

    Qwest_35 Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2013 Florida

    Tailgating of course!
     
    #10 Qwest_35, Mar 19, 2013
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  11. Qwest_35

    Qwest_35 Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2013 Florida

    I call it beer envy
     
    #11 Qwest_35, Mar 19, 2013
  12. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    That's actually one of the more defensible ones, as long as Belgian yeast is used. Still smacks of bandwagonism though.
     
    #12 jmw, Mar 19, 2013
  13. UNCCTDawg

    UNCCTDawg Initiate (0) Nov 30, 2011 North Carolina

    Beer is good...

    / thread
     
    #13 UNCCTDawg, Mar 19, 2013
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  14. Hoozierdaddy

    Hoozierdaddy Initiate (0) Apr 24, 2009 Illinois

    Belgian IPA is a lot more meaningful that Belgian pale ale if you're referring to a hoppy beer made with a Belgian yeast strain.
     
    #14 Hoozierdaddy, Mar 19, 2013
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  15. HokiesandBeer

    HokiesandBeer Initiate (0) Jan 10, 2013 Pennsylvania

    I'm looking forward to an IPA Coca-Cola...or an IPA Bourbon. Heck why stop there? IPA Ice Cream!
     
    #15 HokiesandBeer, Mar 19, 2013
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  16. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
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    According to some random statistic I read somewhere and am probably egregiously misquoting, about 20% of all beer sold in the craft market is IPAs. So why wouldn't brewers try to market as many different kinds of beers as possible as some kind of IPA offshoot? Follow the money.
     
    #16 Orca, Mar 19, 2013
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  17. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,348) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    What the hell are all the tickers gonna do if there is one type of beer for each style. Fact of the matter is we need descriptors for these beers. What else are you going to call an IPA brewed with belgian yeast? Or an IPA brewed with rye or roasted barley? Or a stout brewed with coffee and aged in bourbon barrels? Who needs all these stouts anyways? Left hand milk stout and bcbs are just two of the same, right?
     
    #17 SFACRKnight, Mar 19, 2013
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  18. dar482

    dar482 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,063) Mar 9, 2007 New York
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    Is this actually an issue? Are people really mistaking Bourbon County for being an IPA?
     
    #18 dar482, Mar 19, 2013
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  19. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    So what we're finding is that the term IPA is morphing into synonymy with 'beer'?
    Look into that statistic and get back to us.
     
    #19 jmw, Mar 19, 2013
  20. yamar68

    yamar68 Initiate (0) Apr 1, 2011 Minnesota

    It seems as though you're lost in your own argument.

    Maybe have one last IPA and go to bed.
     
    #20 yamar68, Mar 19, 2013
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