IPA craze: When will it be over?!

What?

 

I've never had an IPA that tasted medicinal. IPA is not my favorite style but when you get one that has those tropical fruit notes like pineapple, orange and mango, you will think you've died and gone to heaven. They're magical beers, almost too good to be true... so I can understand the IPA craze.. some of them are "wonderful".

 

nevaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

People drink them because they like the way hop forward beers taste. I do also but I don't want the Hops to overpower everything else. The hop level of brews like SNPA and Anchor Liberty Ale are about all I need.

 

Perhaps a better perspective to this topic is that US craft beer drinkers enjoy the varying flavor profiles that American style IPAs provide.

The flavors that American aroma hops can provide are:

· Citrus

· Fruity (sweet fruits, tropical fruits, etc.)

· Pine

· Spicy/Herbal

· Floral

· Woody

· Dank

· Vegetal

· Etc.

Centennial hops taste citrusy (e.g., grapefruit/orange) to my palate. Simcoe hops taste piney to my palate. Some other hops provide a dank quality. And on and on….

One of my favorite hop combinations that I personally like in a homebrewed beer is a combination of Amarillo & Simcoe; the combination of citrus and pine is very pleasing to me.

Cheers!

 

H

Here to stay I think

 

Go to breweries and demand them to make a different beers, Tell them not to make what the people are spending the money on.

Homebrew.

 

Yes

 

Or you could say IPAs are the like Marvel's dominance during the Silver Age, beginning with Fantastic Four #1. SNPA and California Common and the like could be considered the Golden Age. That's as far as I'm going to get in my dissertation, so I'll just end the analogy there.

 

It's not a craze... It's evolution.

 

That and the wheats have always been favourites of mine. I havent purchased an IPA in a while and have been exploring different beers. I anticipate going back to them in the fall though as the colder weather comes in.

 

ipas are good, people like them, and brewers brew them. because people like them. because they are good.

break the loop and they'll go away, i suppose.

 

A year ago I felt similar to how you feel now. But my how have my eyes have opened. I would say of the three cases of beer in my "cellar" 85 percent are IPA's. I still buy other styles and still enjoy them. If I can get the variety of beer that I do in Alabama I'm sure you can too. Two of our local breweries puts out a lot of German/Belgian (Straight to Ale and Yellow hammer) style beers. But for right now IPA's own me.

Jai Alai is the first IPA that opened my eyes to how wonderful they could be. The second was Thomas Creek Up the Creek.

 

If you don't like pine, grapefruit and citrus, I suppose the question might be, "why?" I love all three, and I think it is amazing that a beer can taste like that without being brewed with fruit or pine. Hops are amazing plants, and I love what brewers are getting out of them. Which is a slightly gussied up version of, "because it tastes good," really.

For what it's worth, I love stouts and porters that create chocolate and coffee flavors without either through the use of malts, and think they are amazing for much the same reason.

Both hops and malts make me happy.

 

I don't really think the recent exploration of IPA's is a craze, by definition.

 

YARFF!

<No, that's not an abbreviation or some kind of shorthand - it's the actual noise my body made when I read that>