New England Double IPA style?

If NEIPA gets multiple categories before Czech lagers I WILL leave this site and never return lmao

 

Based on that there should be a sub category for all IPAs: double Belgian IPA, double English IPA etc.

I do find it interesting that American ipa is the only one with an imperial sub category. There is a difference between a NEIPA @7% and one at 9%.

With all that being said it doesn’t matter to me personally whether there is one or not. Seems like too many styles anyways.

 

Radical concept.

Call it a NEIPA and put the alcohol content on the can. Throw in "imperial" if you feel inclined on the label. Semantics.

These days the branding/style listing is as much to not compete with own offerings as true identification. Lagunitas Citrusinensis was called an APA at 7.9%. More substyles would not clear the murky waters.

Some smartie will (albeit correctly) remark they are all "pale ales."

 

There is.

2%

I find those difference to be actually quite small and more so for this style than some others. Some big ones taste deceivingly smaller and vice versa. I agree with you for avoiding another sub style. Label it for all to see easily and move on.

 

Better start packing.

 

Having one right now.

Cheers!

 

Me too, Reuben's Crush XI.

Cheers!

 

It's not contentious, it just doesn't make a whole lotta sense, IMHO.

I like beer. A lot. I like IPA's. A lot. I don't need another category for NEIPA, any more than I need another category for West Coast IPA.

I know the difference.

 

I agree with your point.

I find "Brut IPA" as it's own category even more out of wack than the whole NEIPA thing.

With that said, I noticed this evening that there is an "American Brett Style" category on here. There is also an "American Wild Ale" category that includes beers brewed using brett.

 

I love Hazy, Orange Juice looking, haze Bro, NE IPA's!

 

Man if they add this style (DNEIPA) they need to add the Strong American Wild Ale, cause.....thinking of Consecration...

 

My thread started 11/1/18:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/style-new-england-dipa.593176/

 

I'm all in favor of making a category for Imperial New England IPAs. Putting Revision's 10.5% New England Style "Hops In A Can" in the current category just feels wrong.

That being said, allow me to play devil's advocate for a second. If we're adding more sub-categories, why not Milkshake IPA? If the addition of lactose is enough to make a stout its own category, why not the same for IPAs? To me, especially when vanilla is involved, they are very clearly different.

 

This one is tough, and it's hard to describe, but you do know a NEIPA when you see one. So what's the trigger point? Many beers are unfiltered. So it's basically a turbid, lower abv than Dipas, and much lower on the bitter scale. So what seperates an IPA from a Dipa, besides more malt, more hops and. 1-2 % bump in abv? We're getting into semantics to a degree and a bit of a bump on ingredients to make fractional changes. But again there is a difference in the glass between an IPA, a Dipa, a NEIPA.

 

What gets me is all the breweries putting out hazy no bitterness overly sweet (to me) products and calling them IPA I am overly sensitive to sweet so I really don't like the new NEIPA I couldn't care less about ABV other than printing it on the container.

 

Any style could have an imperial version and I'm not against adding new styles.
Imp. Red Ale/Red Larger, Imp. NEIPA, Imp. Brown Ale are my favorite candidates.