New England IPA

You want yet another style? Uh-uh.

 

Because no other place in the country makes perishable IPAs w/tropical fruit flavors?

 

New England Style IPA
Old School East Coast IPA
West Coast IPA
Midwestern IPA

Where does it end? Keep it simple. EIPA, AIPA, DIPA and be done with it.

 

I associate Ringwood IPAs with New England, so there would be some confusion.

 

And you're getting plenty of encouragement I see.

 

Can you show that this would-be style variation is specific to New England rather than a development occurring in various parts of the country?

 

Do you hope it doesn't happen because you don't want another style, or because you don't like this cloudy sort of IPA?

 

There is absolutely nothing unique about anything New England brewers are doing with hops.
I make four points:
1.) Raw materials - All of the hops used in IPAs made in the northeast are from farms thousands of miles away. They are either pacific northwest hops (example: everything in heady) and occasionally NZ hops. So no raw materials used should make the NE beers unique AT ALL.
2.) Flavor - This has a lot to do with raw materials. In any case there are equally as many, if not more breweries making "perishable" hoppy beers with citrus and fruit hoppy emphasis in the west.
3.) History - NE didn't do anything first. Breweries across the country have taken advantage of new hop varietals as they have come out.
4.) What you have access to - If you live in the East you might have to realize that you think more breweries are making these IPAs than they are in the West, but thats because you have no idea whats happening out west. Cellarmaker, SARA, Henhouse, Boneyard, Faction, Alpine, Altamont, El Segundo, Drakes, Knee Deep, Magnolia, Port, Saint Archer, Kern River, and many more are making fruity hop bombs rarely discussed on this site. Especially compared to breweries like Tree House, you just don't hear that these west coast magicians are cooking up amazing fruity hops bombs (also often not fine filtered either).

So in conclusion, there is no reason that the northeast should have a style IPA because they are doing nothing special with flavor or materials, they didn't do anything first, and they don't have more breweries doing anything unique either.

 

Tough crowd

 

We did America first!

 

What a solid argument. So my other three points aren't valid "just cuz" you say so? How have styles historically emerged? Because they did something new.. If IPA's in the NE aren't using new materials and aren't making new flavors, than how do they warrant their own style category? You should address my points with more than your opinion to be taken seriously. And OK so Knee Deep is slightly less hazy.. Go drink a Cellarmaker alone and I promise (promise!) you that you will no longer feel that the east coast is making something unique.