west coast should unfilter beers

you mean they "should not filter beer" not "unfilter beer"

any brewery/brewer can do as they please. i heard Enjoy By Unfiltered was amazing but Enjoy By itself is fantastic. from what i hear, unfiltered beer has more nutrients in it (particularly Vitamin B and something else too)

 

We largely do not filter our beers. The only time we filter is when we're transferring the very last part of a fermenter that held a dry hopped beer over to the brite tank because it's a slurry of hop and yeast matter. And even then, it's the widest bore filter available. So basically, you're already getting this. Orderville is super cloudy.

Cheers & thanks,
Jacob McKean
Modern Times Beer

 

Holy hell where do you drink beer? I seriously have to stop reading these threads. A number of CA breweries make unfiltered IPAs. At least occasionally to mimic the "style" of the few eastern breweries that do it. If you live in CA and don't know this than you seriously need to leave your cave.

 

lol my father had a parody of this painting ("view of the world from 9th ave").....he used to work off 128. Almost every corporation in this piece has either been acquired, absorbed, bankrupt or outsourced. Kinda sad, route 128 was Silicon Valley before there was silicon valley (along with the silicon prairie). Now it's a husk of it's former greatness.

Anyway, I am happy that the East has found a style to call its own. i dont see why anyone has to change just because it's the popular thing to do.

 

This. I'd never heard of Aslin until I recently received a crowler of Master of Karate as an extra. That beer kicked ass.

 

Everyone used to complain about the looks of Heady Topper but the next generation like Tree House and Trillium pushed it off the charts. If all the brewers were creating hazy, turbid beers I'd shoot myself.

 

I recommend getting the Mind The Hop if you can. i would put that beer up against just about any DIPA in the top 250. They are doing great things and they are making beers exactly being talkign about in this thread. NE Style IPAs but they are in Virginia

 

They all can look like a stout for all i care. I just want a good tasting beer in the end is all.

 

Why stop there? Centrifuge it, dump half the supernatant, and resuspend to make super-cloudy beer!

 

Less Filling....Tastes Great


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Awesome. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll ask about it for sure.

 

Very cool and I get it. There are certain foods I totally love and can eat them over and over again but after awhile, I need a break, variety and presentation is the spice of life.

 

NE style IPAs have reached the West Coast, though they aren't nearly no widespread. I've liked the ones I've tried, but I'm glad there's still enough variety.

 

I agree! I typically like the flavor characteristics that come from an unfiltered beer. Like I said, I commend experimentation, but I just don't want to see all well-established west-coast breweries abandoning ship based on this new craze.

 

Breweries in CA already do this with yeast. But the existence of this thread clearly indicates that many west coasters don't even know what's going on in their own state. So it's not that west coast breweries aren't doing it (and just as well), it's that people use a site like this for all their beer related info and get trapped in some sort of weird New England beer scene cyber vortex that blinds them from beer made in their own region.

Seriously though, if you live in CA (especially the bay area) and you trade for something like TH more than once, you are blowing it on a supreme level. You are getting canned beer that spent a week in a fedex truck over the most beautiful hoppy beer in the world made in your own city. Im so dumbfounded that people do this. It would be like living in Maine and getting lobster from South Africa. Sure, try it once to see how it differs, but then quickly realize that it isn't better than that good good you got at home.

 

That's never going to happen this NE IPA thing is a good change of pace from the regular IPA but I don't think many people would like to just drink juices day in and day out when they feel like having an IPA. When I drink a NE style IPA I think damn this is juicy but it leaves me wanting a good old fashioned beer. I do appreciate having both options available at all times now though.

 

Maybe a visit to Ardmore (Tired Hands) is in order then?

Cheers!

 

Have you been following this thread in the Homebrewing forum: http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/northeast-pales-ipa-dipa.319817/

There is lots of technical input in this thread including posts from commercial brewers.

Cheers!

 

Stone did the unfiltered IPA. I actually really liked it. I love unfiltered beers, but I also love a good west coast IPA.