The White IPA

A "hoppy wit" would also have coriander and orange peel.

I thought a white IPA just contains a significant amount of wheat. Wrong?

 

Hmm that's interesting. I did some looking around on websites and most of them did not even mention the yeast. They all said the beer is a combo of an IPA and a witbier. Blue Point said they used German ale on their website. The only one I found specifying the yeast is New Holland White Hatter. It says Wit yeast on the spec sheet. I did brew my own using wit yeast as well, and it was incredible.

 

The term IPA has lost all meaning from what it used to be, now anything can be a (insert style) IPA. Heck, I've had Stouts that will probably jump on this bandwagon soon. Ya! Stout IPA!
Can't really blame the breweries, heck, IPA sounds good. Doesn't matter that what is in the bottle isn't an IPA by a long stretch of the imagination. And People here on BA have jumped on that bandwagon with them.
In my opinion any style of beer that just adds a lot of hops to a style should just call it what it really is, a Hoppy (insert style)
BIPA=Hoppy belgium style beer
Black IPA= Hoppy Porter
White IPA= Hoppy wheat beer And so on, Heck how about even giving it a little zing? Just shorten the hoppy to hop
Then you get Hopblack Ale, Hopwheat Ale, Hoplager, Belgiohop. You get the picture?

 

It's just another made up style.

 

I think this is why I liked Accumulation so much! To me, it pretty much tasted like a nice crisp IPA with a lighter malt backbone than, say, Lagunitas IPA, Celebration, or Founders Centennial IPA.

 

I am very new to craft beer, however, I've been loving IPA's. SweetWater Whiplash is amazing. I had it for the first time last night. One of my favorites so far!

 

To get the "white"-ish color, they're probably going to use a substantial amount of unmalted wheat and/or oats. All of the examples I'm aware of use Belgian yeast (Wit or otherwise; there's a blurred line there). And at least some do use the typical Witbier spices.

How do any of these ingredients hold up when you add a pile of late/dry hops, I'm not sure... Other than the answer is going to vary by beer. Basically, we're once again finding ourselves trying to pigeonhole every beer in to super strict style classifications--and finding it difficult to impossible to do.