Why do people like IPAs?

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  1. Amendm

    Amendm Pooh-Bah (2,589) Jun 7, 2018 Rhode Island
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    What IPAs have you tried so for, I'm guessing NEIPAs. Inquiring minds want to know.
     
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  2. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Nice post. I'm slowly sipping a Lagunitas IPA. Plenty hops and fine balance. I'm very relaxed.......
     
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  3. Rktect1

    Rktect1 Aspirant (242) Dec 24, 2023 Illinois
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    I was at Revolution a few weeks back and tried the Hero in Training. I also had a Bells Hazy IPA recently.
     
    #43 Rktect1, Jan 15, 2024
  4. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    I am still trying to figure out if the OP is trolling.

    There are now many choices for hop varieties (and more and more coming every year) and they each provide a unique assortment of aromas/flavors. In brewing there is a chart (I refer to it as a spider graph) which details the various aromas/flavors possible and the relative intensity for each flavor axis; below is a chart for Pale Ale which features Eureka hops:

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    And by combining a number of hop varieties (e.g., dry hop with 2-3 different hop varieties) the overall aromas/flavors can be expanded.

    It would seem the OP doesn’t enjoy flavors such as citrus and tropical fruit and…in beer?

    Cheers!
     
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  5. woodchipper

    woodchipper Grand Pooh-Bah (3,735) Oct 25, 2005 Connecticut
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    Hey OP.. This is like asking why people like the color blue. Basically, some do and some don't.
     
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  6. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Fishy from the get go....
     
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  7. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Any reason for selecting the color blue?

    Because IPAs make the OP feel:

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  8. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Ah, maybe the OP is a Belgian beer fan!?!:confused:

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    #48 JackHorzempa, Jan 15, 2024
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  9. DrStiffington

    DrStiffington Grand Pooh-Bah (3,740) Oct 27, 2010 New Jersey
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    Damnit why do people like things that I don’t like??!
     
    #49 DrStiffington, Jan 15, 2024
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  10. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    What? Perhaps I am totally misunderstanding you because it's the opposite.
     
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  11. Taylor_Maierhofer1996

    Taylor_Maierhofer1996 Savant (1,068) Jun 30, 2021 Illinois
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    If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it really make a sound?
     
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  12. rugene

    rugene Pundit (967) Mar 2, 2015 Canada (QC)

    IPA has more flavors, as simple as that but some people don't enjoy it when there are too many flavors.
     
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  13. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,174) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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    The last Czech Pils I enjoyed was nicely bitter. Maybe not in the same flavor characters as a West Coast IPA, but bitter nonetheless.

    Nice crackery malts too, for that matter. Something for everyone? :slight_smile:
     
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  14. MostlyNorwegian

    MostlyNorwegian Pooh-Bah (2,236) Feb 5, 2013 Illinois
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    You have access to Revolution. Return, and get a tray of samples of all the IPA's they have, and go through them. Have a Cold Time, or a packet of Saltines in between each of them. Discover the land of the IPA. And realize that you may just like an easy drinker like the Cold Time you have as the side-car, and you really just want beer that isn't going to wallop you in the taste buds, and take your tongue for a ride. You just want beer that is flavored like beer.
     
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  15. dcotom

    dcotom Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,637) Aug 4, 2014 Iowa
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    Maybe the OP is a supertaster with an acute sensitivity/aversion to bitterness. Could happen.
     
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  16. papposilenus

    papposilenus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,232) Jun 21, 2014 New Hampshire
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    I was thinking more like something the nurse practitioner picks off your scrotum with tweezers.
     
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  17. ATL6245

    ATL6245 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,984) Aug 16, 2018 Georgia
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    Uh oh....
     
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  18. crazyspicychef

    crazyspicychef Pooh-Bah (2,341) Sep 27, 2012 Pennsylvania
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    Free beer ALWAYS tastes better!
     
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  19. ESHBG

    ESHBG Pooh-Bah (2,099) Jul 30, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    I have been saying this for quite a while now also re: the extra "high" along with the versatility within the style. I wasn't a big IPA fan when I first got into craft beer but over time I began to appreciate the style with a big part of that being I got a different type of buzz from it than I did with other styles and alcohol. Even more interesting was over time I was still kind of meh about most IPAs overall but I would get cravings for the style that I did not have with others.

    I am going to guess and say what they meant was with a Pils or a Helles you generally know what you are going to get and if you don't care for those flavor profiles it's always going to be the same experience, whereas with IPAs you can hate one and love another because of how versatile the style is.

    I am sort of in this boat and the slightest wrong mix of something will throw the entire experience off for me.
     
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  20. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    Really? Perhaps I can reword it better: the range of flavors and options provided under the IPA banner (not just WC IPA) is greater, even without getting into added fruit, souring, and other additives like that, is far greater than not just most styles, but than any traditional "beer-flavored-beer" style.

    People who say they hate IPAs because of the piney bitterness have obviously never tried any of the vast majority of IPAs which are more popular now - low bitterness juice bombs, with no resin, no caramel malt backbone, no pine.

    At the same time, many people who hate juicy murkbombs still love traditional IPAs.

    Then there are IPAs right in the middle: high bitterness, but presenting a melange of strong citrus and/or tropical fruit flavor mixed in with a semi-sweet pale malt backbone.

    Then there's session IPAs (hoppy seltzer water more often than not), super malty triple IPAs ...

    Could Pilsner Urquell produce a 50-beer Pilsner variety pack including session Pils, Imperial Pils, triple dry hopped Pils, Amarillo single-hop Pils, Falconer's Flight Pils, 0 IBU Pils, 100 IBU Pils ... etc?

    Probably ... I don't know if many people would want quite a bit of that lineup, but more to the point, the availability of such variety simply doesn't exist, whereas that kind of variety in the IPA market is ubiquitous.

    IPAs are like the weather in Florida. Don't like what's in front of you? Take a few steps to the left and try again. :wink:



    Yes - although I don't mean to state that there's no variance among beer-flavored-beers. However, it's not something beer drinkers generally look for past a certain point.

    I don't want fruit in my Kölsch; I want a damn Kölsch. I don't want a 0 IBU triple dry hopped triple Helles clocking in at 11% ABV; to me, that's not a Helles.

    People may or many not want that from IPAs, either, but they exist, and they work well within the style - therefore, if you do want that (say, OG Hi-Res clocking in at 11.1% ABV and 111 IBU), you can get it. If you prefer a 0 IBU fruited haze bomb, you can get that, too.

    But if you don't like beer-flavored-beer, hard stop? Then you're going to dislike 99% of all Pilsners, Helles, American Lagers, et al that have ever existed. And yes, those people do exist.
     
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