Triple IPAs: This is just getting silly

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by busternuggz, Dec 13, 2013.

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  1. jmdrpi

    jmdrpi Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,989) Dec 11, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    There is a blurred line, because IPAs can have a wide range of malt characteristics. And if there is enough malt flavor in a high ABV IPA, then it's going to be pretty damn close to beers considered American Barleywines.

    In normal and imperial IPA's there can be huge difference between drier beers that probably use all pale malt versus those that balance with some level of caramel or kilned malt. To put in in the form of an analogy question for "single", "double" and "triple" IPAS:

    Bell's Two Hearted : Victory Hop Devil ::
    RR Pliny the Elder : Avery Majaraja ::
    GF Green Bullet : ????

    I'd say the fill-in answer would be something like Stone Old Guardian...a Barleywine.
     
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