IPA Designations?

I think I’ve only ever used / heard of East Coast IPA in the way you described above. i.e. barely see it mentioned anymore. So sounds like your SoCal brewery is making new shit up / means clear NEIPA.

 

I grew up in Socal. I'm confident that the brewery is doing anything it can to draw attention to itself, as is indicative of the region. Not talking shit about Socal. I seriously fucking miss Malibu in the 70's. But let's face it, more than anywhere else Socal is about drawing attention to yourself.

 

I know. I still go back about once a year. I miss Neptune's Net. But damn it's gotten pretentious.

 

I'm old too. I think your OCD is leading you astray. Trying to figure out what kind of beer is inside a bottle or can labeled IPA is fruitless (or maybe too much fruit character). I recently had a pale ale that I had previously liked, and discovered that the brewers were putting a completely different product, like a cloudy IPA, in the can. Try to find a good recent review if you are interested.

 

off topic but is your profile pic you riding? Avid mountain biker myself.

 

I’ll go in a different direction than others here and state that the above is true to a certain extent. It seems like the use of plain “East Coast” to exclusively refer to IPAs like 60 Minute has become less popular. In recent years, people saying “East Coast” are sometimes using it to refer to “NEIPAs” (as if there was no prior meaning). Others might be using the term very broadly. It’s become impossible to know how it’s supposed to be taken w/o diving into context.

There could also be some truth to your theory about that California brewery, but similar to my point above, it’s hard to guess their intention with such little info.

 

Dude I wish! It’s Amaury Pierron (with Brendan Fairclough behind), from a Dog’s Life 3 filmed in SA.

 

As someone who has hurt himself getting up off of chairs, I had to turn that off before the one minute mark.

 

IIRC, not that long ago, the designations for IPAs were just, "east coast" or "west coast." East coast were more malt forward, like Harpoon, DFH 60min, and so on and so forth. West coast were more hop forward, SN, Stone, etc.
Since then, there's been a million "new" variations, like the NEIPA (hazy, low bitterness, juicy hop profile) Brut - super dry, and so on and so forth.

 

Not related to OP's question, but this makes me think about the "hazy west coast IPA's" I'm seeing pop up now. Seems like an oxymoron. But I'm not gonna lie, I buy them everytime...

 

How many brands have you seen (so far)?

Do they actually have the words "West Coast Hazy IPA" on the packaging?

Cheers!

 

Two lagers is the bigger surprise. Surely they have a kettle sour with captain crunch and blueberries? If not they're missing a trick.

 

You know, the first couple times a brewed beer I could've called them "hazy" but that's just because I didn't know how to get them to clear up. They were Pliny clones too, so they definitely would've fit that description..

 

at least 3 or 4 between local breweries and Tavour listings

 

I live in Iowa and someone in my local beer group was complaining yesterday about all our local stores carrying 6 Toppling Goliath IPA's and 1 TG lager but nothing else. Asked him if he realized that this is all TG distributes. They distribute one rotational stout and one rotational sour, and every other stout release is taproom lottery.

 

And on that same note, just in contrast, there is exactly 1 brewery in Iowa that every year brews and distributes Kolsch's, bocks, scotch ales, barleywines, Belgian's, etc and actually fit their IPA production in rather proportionately with their production of other beer styles. It's incredibly refreshing, but they're a unicorn in that regard.