Posted on 09/17/2024 6:23:02 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The best IPAs of the year were announced by The U.S. Open Beer Championship in mid-July. The competition was founded in 2009 in Ohio and is considered one of the three most prestigious beer competitions in the U.S. alongside the World Beer Cup and The Great American Beer Festival.
Even though this year’s Grand National Champion, Third Eye Brewing, won based upon its dark beers, the IPA remained the most popular style of beer overall in this year’s competition, which divided IPAs into more than a dozen subcategories.
“The hazy IPAs had the most entries [with] 176,” Dow Scoggins, the founder of the U.S. Open, told me.
Outside of the competition world, IPAs remain the most popular category by a wide margin at the vast majority of breweries. This has frustrated some beer fans and some brewers, who sometimes want to brew different styles of beer but are forced to brew multiple IPA variations due to market demands. Fortunately, IPAs are becoming increasingly diverse. As any modern beer fan knows, merely ordering an IPA does not tell you that much about what the beer will taste like. Yes, there will be hops but how much and how bitter forward they are will vary dramatically by the type of IPA you are getting. Scoggins takes pride in the way the U.S. Open Beer Championship has embraced the different styles of IPA currently available to U.S. drinkers.
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My favorite IPA is the one that gets dumped into the sink.
Torpedo…..
Haha
I like a good beer but I prefer lagers, pilsners, and stouts. I never liked the IPAs.
It’s a tie: Vandyland IPA and Piggyback Rides IPA from Launch Pad Brewery, Aurora CO.
My local hangout.
Joking aside...IPAs are like cooking with Cilantro....people either love them or hate them in my experience...with no middle ground
Its just one style of beer I never got taste for....it might actually be the only style i dont have a taster for.
Illegals have yet to screw things up there?
I’m only doing the Non-Alcoholic brews. Athletic Brewing Run Wild IPA and Clausthaler Dry Hopped IPA are my faves. When I was drinking real beer, Sweetwater IPA was my favorite. A lot of American IPAs are overhopped for my taste. I had kind of moved back from IPAs to Pilsners.
Wow, I thought Canmore burned to the ground.
Canmore is fine. You’re thinking of Jasper, 200 miles northwest, 3 hours, 30 minutes away by car.
They’re working on it. Fortunately, the mayor and city council are the polar opposites of Denver.
A local Ozark beer company IPA. Sort of generic. No fancy name just an IPA. I’ll do stouts, an occasional Modelo Negra, Guinness or what ever. Anything but Bud Light or any other tasteless fizzy water stuff.
“I like a good beer but I prefer lagers, pilsners, and stouts. “
Same here....but I’d add hefeweizen/Crystalweizens, Trappist ales, Dunkels, German Fess Beers...etc.
And actually the best beer I ever had in my life was something called “Dort” (short for dortmunder)
I had it in a hotel in Belgium...and never saw it again. It was if it came from a Brewery in Heaven.
Corralitos Brewery Hop Kiss IPA
Never heard of those in the article.
oops, two of my selections are not IPA’s. Interglactic Tea Party is no longer made.
TM
I prefer a good weissbier with an orange slice. Beautiful on hot summer days. In winter a good Dunkel.
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