Old-School East Coast IPA Appreciation Thread (2024)

I keep seeing Two Hearted bandied about. I wouldn't consider it to be East Coast IPA. Too pale in color, and the malt flavor, while having more depth than West Coast, isn't what I would consider East Coast.

I seem to remember a few years ago there being a push for a Midwest IPA style that would cover the IPAs made around the Great Lakes and Upper Plains area that weren't East or West Coast, but a secret third thing.

 

Yeah I would like to see these two beers again as well. And don't get me started on Imperial Stout! I know their more recent 4 Giants DIPA is an amalgamated recipe of four of their beers, including Double Trouble, but not even sure how often this beer is made/distributed.

 

Malty DIPA are just barleywines with botox

 

IMO, Harpoon is more of a pale ale. Not bad but there are better examples.

 

I think Founders Centennial IPA fits the bill.

 

Maine Brewing Lunch does it for me. Salt & Rind in Waterbury always has it on, and it's great with their oysters. Reminds me, I have to get them listed and put up a review.

 

I don't think it makes it out of Massachusetts, but Ipswich's original IPA is a great example.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/162/259/

 

I think they called it a TIPA. It actually took me a few years before I really liked it. Now I really miss it.

 

Surly Furious

 

Harpoon is still around and I think it fills the bill,

 

Flower Power was always more of a west coast style IPA. Hop Devil and Brooklyn EIPA are what I think of the quintessential east coast IPA. I think Brooklyn even uses English hops (EKG) in the EIPA. I still like both those beers, particularly the bitterness, but I don't really miss the days of old ringwood ipas like Shipyard, Geary's, Magic Hat, Middle Ages, etc.

 

Being a mid- westerner, I thought east coast IPA's were NE IPA's and the the rest were American IPA's unless they were English IPA's. Then one day I saw a West Coast IPA, made sense 'cuz if there is ECIPA there should be WCIPA. Thankfully, Great Lakes makes a Midwest IPA for us midwesterners to enjoy although I've yet to see one....and wouldn't you know it, in Chicago there is a MidWest Coast brewing, they brew a NEIPA and an American IPA, but no MidWest Coast IPA. I didn't look to see if anyone brewed a Florida East Coast IPA or a Gulf Coast IPA.

I Think I'll have a Centennial, it's from Michigan!

 

Tell us you grew up/lived in the north east part of the country without telling us you grew up/lived in the north east part of the country.

 

Be Hoppy by Wormtown Brewery of Worcester Massachusetts.

It's pale colored but to me it fits the bill.

Question, do Be Hoppy fans consider this one too Westcoast influenced to be an AIPA?

Cheers.

 

I just had it for the first time this summer, a nice fresh can; it was very good and crisp. Based on my one experience with it I think it leans much more west coast at least in taste; I feel like I don't remember much of a malt presence. Unfortunately I didn't get to see color well, it was a hotel beer from can and paper cup Important thing here to me is that it fits the bill of clean, bitter and drinkable IPA so I'm all in regardless of what word we choose to associate with it.

 

WTF? When did East Coast IPA become a thing? Hint: it isn’t. Never heard this term before and it’s bs marketing. East coast IPAs 10 years ago were associated with the hazy stuff which wound up becoming New England IPAs. I don’t support this marketing try at developing a new style.

 

No. Sip of Sunshine (pretty much any Lawson’s IPA), Heady Topper, Ghandi Bot (pretty much any NEBCO IPA), etc… are all examples of East Coast IPA. They were brewed in their own style as an alternative to their piney/grapefruit pith West Coast counterparts

 

That’s some revisionist history. I challenge you to go back through the threads in 2013 or so and find me a reference to Heady and Sip being referred to as as East Coast IPAs. Those have always been referred to as New England IPAs.