Aged IPA

How old is old?

 

Only one way to find out. If you don't like it aged, use it for beer can chicken.

 

I’ve never experienced an aged aged ipa. Maybe reach out to your trading partner and see if they’d be interested in that beer as an extra. It never hurts to ask.

 

I'm going to go with @FFFjunkie on this one, if you want to trade it away as a freebie that's fine but ask first - if I got one in trade I wouldn't be upset at all but I'd have to ask what the hell is wrong with this guy?

Ahh, I also just noticed that you're from Florida... put that together with shipping out old beer and I'd say this guy is just unloading old beer on me.

 

I agree 100%.

I wouldn’t mind receiving it because I’ve never had it before but I certainly don’t speak for everyone. Plus the last thing you’d want is hurt feelings over a nice deed taken the wrong way.

 

send it to me and i will tell you if its good or not.

 

Is that the white oak jai alai? If so, it’s not really an aged beer. It is meant to consume fresh. It’s just regular jai alai with white oak spirals rested on it.

It tends to sweeten and get very malty. It’s really not too pleasant.

 

I would ask if they want it before sending it, even as an extra. Otherwise it's going to seem like you're just unloading junk on them even if your intentions were good. I don't think there's a market for old IPAs.

I would just drink it though if I were you.

 

Old/stale/aged IPAs vary in flavor development, but generally it will lose all fruity hop character and go more toward a bitter Amber or ESB-type flavor profile.

Only you will know if it is any good, so nut up buttercup and drink it!

 

I purposely aged Dogfish 90-min. over a period several years. Turned out to be a nice barleywine.

 

It drives me nuts when people say ipas turn into barleywines with some age on them....

 

Why though?

 

Because they don't. A well made American barleywine is a fine beer, an old ipa is merely cardboard and grapefruit pith. The two are not equal.

 

But sometimes DIPAs’ hops fade and its understandable that their uninformed take (probably due to a different, slightly darker malt bill) is that it be like that sometimes?

 

Does a Black DIPA become a stout? I understand the rhetoric, but disagree with it. One man's opinion though.

 

None of it works for me lol, but I can see where the uninformed may think these statements are somewhere near the truth