Triple IPA ABV

I have a buddy Phil and there is a popular story which has been retold many time about when he went golfing last summer with the boys he decided to drink several (many?) bottles of Weyerbacher Quad. I was not there to see his 'exploits' in person but I really wish I was. By all accounts it was quite an epic day.

Cheers!

 

Hell, Miller lite is triple hops brewed. I'd consider that a TIPA.

 

I've often wondered if that's marketing-speak for the normal three times that hops are added during the boil for the bittering, taste and aroma, and not triple the amount of hops. If it's triple the hops in quantity, then they're using some light-flavored hops to start with.

 

More nomenclature and definitions. Great.

 

Somebody needs to tell Bell's that Hopslam is a TIPA!

 

Many made similar points - I just picked these two...
Emphases are mine.

((Argument against myself: I guess with the term "Triple" IPA being widely accepted by the beer community (I've used it myself, I suppose) the root derivative of the term "Double IPA" that I've always assumed may be wrong. But anyway))

It always seemed to me that when you refer to an Imperial IPA as a Double IPA, it's just a way of saying the same thing. The double doesn't apply to the (IPA). It only applies to the "I".
Similar to verbalizing NCAA. One might say "N-C-A-A", but just as often you might hear "N-C-Double-A". Or the roadside service "AAA" as "Triple-A".

You could verbalize the term IIPA as "Double-I PA".
So every time I hear someone say Double IPA, I just assume they're using an abbreviated form of Imperial India Pale Ale.

Language is a funny thing.

 

[Mind exploding and making a mess of my living room wall]

 

In the Chapter "IPA VARIATIONS" under the heading "Double/Imperial IPA", Mitch Steele's book IPA notes that one of the first two* double IPAs was Rogue's IIPA, which was eventually labeled I2PA, pronounced "I squared PA".

What is not stated, however, but certainly implied is if that first "I" stood for "Imperial". Rogue's promotional publications did call it that.

*The other being Vinnie Cilurzo's Blind Pig Inaugural Ale. Steele writes "neither one (Rogue's Maier or Cilurzo) is sure which beer came first - and both don't really seem to worry about it too much", placing the time as only the "early 1990s" for Rogue's and '94 for the Blind Pig. Rogue claimed their beer debuted in 1995 at the Oregon Brewers Festival.