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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Hubby’s favorite?
Resin Six Point, and Rheingeist Truth are two of his that you might be able to find.
Jackie O’s Mystic Mama and Who Cooks For You from Ohio are his latest faves.
I keep his beer fridge pretty well stocked. I think he has maybe 6 or 8 different ones to choose from right now. It’s something I do to show him he’s loved and appreciated. If he wants to crack open a beer at the end of an arduous day, I’m all for it.
Same. Most of them are too hoppy for my taste.
Why would you buy a beer just to dump it in the sink? Seems like a waste of money.
Sweetwater is good but I prefer the local brewery IPA beers.
Saw a glass the other day that said:
IPA
LOT
WHEN I DRINK
BEER
I wouldn’t buy it....but say someone brought a six pack of it over, and left a few in the fridge, then they would go into the sink the next day.
Unless there is a homeless guy outside that likes IPAs....then I would offer it to him.
Jai Alai Cigar City Brewing in Tampa
Space Dust Elysian Brewing Seattle
West Coast Randy. Shoe Tree Brewing, Carson City, Nevada.
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