New England IPA

Jamestown , Virginia might argue.

And if you go away from the original 13 colonies.....St Augustine , Florida holds the crown.

 

Good lord! I have a headache now...

 

GIVE ME MORE OF THAT TURBID MUD!!!!

 

Good points, however if we're talking about the beginning of the American Revolution, the birth of the nation, it has to go to The Battles Of Lexington And Concord, April 19, 1775.

 

I can see it now: random brewery opens up in New England making subpar IPAs and traders start posting FT New England IPAs ISO White Walez. What a joke.

 

Anyone who thinks the American Revolution began on a certain date and was not an accumulation of events has no business declaring an opinion on the existence of Vermont IPAs.

 

im pretty sure "American IPA" covers most of whats going on style wise. Even this "east coast style" &"west coast style" is a bit too far for me. No need to split an already fine hair even finer with "NE style" or "Vermont style".

 

Let me guess how this plays out.

People from mid-Atlantic / New England declare there is something special about New England IPAs. People from the west coast declare that they have no idea what they are talking about.

I think I nailed it.

 

I'd somewhat disagree (at least in the American landscape). See my post below. Having said that, I'm in no way pushing for it as its own style.

 

No.

 

You can't guess how it plays out after it already played out

 

Too many "styles" already. IPA itself is no more than a substyle of Pale Ale so we are to have substyles of substyles?

 

Obviously there were events leading up to the revolution but that was the first major military conflict, no? Either way, I was originally just making a joke and I don't want to clutter up this thread with a debate on American history.
On topic now... No. There should definitely not be a NE IPA category. As good as the IPA's and DIPA's coming from places in NE, the style is not exclusive to our area.

 

You left out a very educational history discussion.

 

I appreciate your effort. However we also haven't decided as a community that this decision now lies entirely on your judgement

 

Yeah! What about the burning of the Gaspee in June 1772?

This thread is quickly going off the rails.

 

Are new ingredients used? New techniques? New processes? Unique equipment? Unless there is at least 1, and preferably 2 or more, yes answers, then no, NEIPA is not worthy of being a new style.

 

Totally off the rails. Otherwise we'd have already seen mention of the Proclamation Line established in the immediate aftermath of the Seven Years War in 1763.