Your IPA Preference: Tropical or Pine?

Tropical

 

One citrusty hop bomb, please.

 

Pine.

"Tropical" makes me think of "disease".

 

To me, the pine is something really unique in IPAs that really fascinated my palate back when I tried my first IPA ever (it was Ruination). If I wanted nothing but tropical fruits, well there are these things called "fruit juices" that kind of already got that area covered. I don't have an equivalent beverage that can give me pine like some IPAs do... so my answer is pine.

 

When i first started drinking craft I absolutely loved piney as hell, almost weedy IPA's. Since I've made my rounds through some of the greats though I've found my palate leaning in a more tropical direction. The past few tropical IPA's i had just blew me away.

 

Tropical edges out Piney. That being said a lot of piney IPAs are a bit more balanced so seasonality does play a large part. Since the sun is shining and it's starting to warm up it's time to bring the fruit out.

 

Can't we have both?

 

both

 

I have to vote tropical but I want balance. IT needs to have quite a bit of dank pineyness to it.

 

I like all IPAs from all flavor profiles (onion, dank, piney, tropical, citrusy, floral etc). As long as the finish is not overly bitter and lingering a long time after the sip, that is really my only "don't like" feature from IPAs.

 

I want to drink a Christmas tree

 

Both

 

Tropine-acal.

Sometimes you want the fruit; other times you want the tree; sometimes you want both at once.

 

Preferably tropical. It would be better if both

 

Tropical all day errrrryyyday

 

Both. But, I do like the Piney IPA's from time to time. Betty IPA is very Piney. Well, it was before they changed the recipe for it.

 

Enjoy By has a little of everything.

 

Both depends on the day

 

Had stone Delicious IPA last weekend. The nose in it was as if i had just opened a can of tropical fruit cocktail. Soooo good.

 

Dat Cat Piss Doh...