Are IPAs not for me?

the bigger question it why are you forcing yourself to enjoy something?

 

2 years ago GI IPA won a gold in English IPA category at GABF beating a shitload of others in category. When tasted blind speaks volumes of GI IPA and your opinion of what "crap" is.

 

IPA's (and sours more recently) have become the most trendy of styles for American craft drinkers...while I have grown to appreciate them, there are definitely a bunch of other styles that I prefer. Based on your ratings, I would say just continue exploring the beautiful world of Belgian-style ales.

 

It's funny, when I fist got into IPAs that was one of the things I enjoyed. That pine aroma and taste. The first time I really got that pine from a beer was Weyerbacher's Double Simcoe (Double IPA). I recently had a few IPAs that had a heavy pine to them One was another Weyerbacher (ALS?) not sure and the other Troegs Perpetual and found that it was the pine that turned me off. I seem to have lost my fondness for this quality and gone the opposite direction.

So tastes can change and even acquired ones. Lately I have been preferring less from my beer.
So my taste graph would start low, climb to a peak then drop off just a bit higher than where I started. But with a greater understanding of my taste I believe. It reminds me of this great T.S. Elliot quote:
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

 

Hey, I don't like it. Based on reviews and ratings on here I'm not alone. I know that it has won awards. My original comment was in response to someone saying if you don't like goose island IPA then you don't like IPAs, which I thought was a ridiculous thing to say, considering I drink mostly IPAs and I don't like goose island IPA. Did I overstate my case for the sake of rhetoric? - Maybe.

 

All beer, in general, is an acquired taste.
Like the 1st beer you have as a kid -- it tastes off, yeasty, bitter (ok, maybe it was an AAL...but stilll)
Nobody has their first sip of beer and fully enjoys the taste (somebody correct me otherwise) but then there's the buzz, the social norms, others drink, you drink. You acquire the taste.
Most of us gradually acquire a taste for beer -- and other things such as coffee, cigarettes, whiskey lel -- as we progress into adulthood, then our tastes keep evolving from there.

IPA's are well hyped. If it isn't your "thing" tastewise, maybe you just want to "get it"

 

You really don't like them; they're all for me! Ha, ha.

 

I agree with this 100%. If you want to break into the ipas then 60 minute is a good start. It's smooth, pretty well balanced and finishes quite nicely.

 

While the American IPA isn't my favorite style, I do find some to be quite good. Try some of the "starter" IPA's. (Sam Adams, Longhammer etc.

If you enjoy them, move on from there. (Or don't, drink what you enjoy.)

As far as DIPA's, Dogfish 90 is nice but I prefer Burton Baton. I find it to more drinkable and complex.