Wayfinder and Ecliptic introduce Cold IPA

Yawn

 

sooooo what im hearing is that its an IPL...

 

I don't like it

 

Brut IPA resurrection?

No offense to Ecliptic, but this one isn't going to "fly".

 

First it was "Triple IPA" gimmick and now this!

 

Huh.

Although, from the description (lager yeast, heavy hopping) they could have called this a Double Italian-Style Pilsner if they really wanted to get this group riled up.

 

They’re great and Wayfinder has been doing them for a while now.. If you don’t know them they make phenomenal true to type European lagers mostly. Lots of incredibly well executed technical beers and this is the stamp on hoppy beer and I think it’s cool. Authentic and on brand in a way.

I think it’s an interesting take personally. It’s a pretty standard IPA with even less yeast character but not dry as a bone like Brut.

Also lager yeast can do some really interesting shit to certain hop compounds.

 

They need you on the marketing team.

I really want the modern hoppy lager trend to mature because the best examples.I've found are among my favorite beers. I'd love to try this style made by skilled brewers. The impulse to IPA-ize everything hurts in an ironic way. Don't these hip brewers know that modern remakes of classic styles are all the rage. New world lagers.are the new IPA, what do they think this is...2019? My naming convention suggestion is;

American Imperial Italian Pilsner

 

As if IPA did not already get enough attention, now your telling me we need to entertain yet another sub-category of IPA. Are you kidding me! Before you know it the beer world will be full of different iterations of IPA. I sure dont hope so..... There is some much more to beer then IPA.

 

I just had Wayfinder's Relapse, another "cold" IPA and it was quite good. A great marriage of what Wayfinder already does really well (lagers) and putting an IPA spin on it.

Yes it's technically an IPL if you want to venture into pedantic territory but if rebranding IPLs as "cold IPA" gets more people interested in the style, I'm all for it.

Yes, it's absolutely dumb/smart marketing bullshit for the kind of people who think Coors or Bud when you mutter the word "lager" under your breath to get them to try something that is only tangentially related to their notions of what lagers are.

 

Sounds like another way to bring back a Brut ipa, but giving it another name. That died very quickly here at least. I’ve got nothing against wc style ipas imo their just right, I like JA beers, but I can’t think of any IPLs here, perhaps I just missed them. Like most things the brewers skill reflects on the final product not so much the type of malt or grains or adjuncts. Lots of mediocre beers out there using water/hops/barley/ yeast. Great brewers make the magic.

 

I like trying new beers. From gimmie more to drainpour.

 

The “Pants in the Ground” of beer

 

Guinness got there first.

In the US, legally to label a malt beverage "Ale" it's got to be "fermented at a comparatively high temperature" regardless of the strain of yeast. Now, obviously, lots of beers have been fermented with lager yeast at higher than normal lager temps, like steam beer and pre-craft US so-called bastard ales and, I sorta doubt the TTB goes into breweries armed with a thermometer before approving these "Cold IPA" labels...

Huh?

Well, most (all?) Brut IPA's used the enzyme Glucoamylase/Amyloglucosidase - the same stuff used by many brewers for their "light beer".

I think that happened already ...