Posted on 12/27/2016 4:18:24 PM PST by mikeIII
Lagers may be ubiquitous but India Pale Ales are beers with a backstory
BEER is for drinking. But beer is also an occasion for conversation—and, if good enough, a subject for it, too. That is where India Pale Ales, or IPAs, come into their own. Few beers incite and enrich conversation as much. Their distinctive character—the “firm bitterness [that] lingers long and clean” in one, the “complex aromatic notes of citrus, berry, tropical fruit and pine” in another—spur discussions that spill over from tap rooms to websites with ease. The plethora of craft brewers that has sprung up over the past few decades provides ample scope for arguments about the relative merits of local brews and far-flung ones—with far-flung, these days, meaning from more or less anywhere on Earth.
One of my adult sons really likes IPAs. The other won’t touch them. This is helpful, because we can get beer for the one, and the other will leave it alone.
I love IPA! It’s my favorite brew. And with the seemingly hundreds of microbreweries out there turning out product, it’s hard to believe there isn’t one for everyone.
As long as its not Tiger Beer from the Philippines ..... and its cold.
I’m on a well high in the Manzano mountains of New Mexico. A craft beer guy I knew had my water tested and said it was almost identical to the Bass Plant at Leeds, England. He traded me a six pack of his IPA for 10 gallons from the hose. Unfortunately he moved away.
IPAs are the new fad. Monkey see, monkey drink.
Ya’ll can enjoy your hoppy beers. I’ll take my mellow lagers. (Don’t need to preserve it for a four month warm ship voyage these days.)
I like most any kind of Red Hook, especially their ‘No Equal’ which is a seasonal brew for Sounders fans. I like Becks for an every day beer. I like to try new stuff and recently have been buying Kona Brewing’s ‘Long Board’. It has a grapefruit after taste.
Fortunately, there are dozens of breweries across the country that do justice to this great British born style of pale ale.
Unfortunately, for every good one, there are a dozen crappy to mediocre ones.
Two great IPA’s that I can get locally up here in Buffalo: Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA, and Southern Tier IPA. Good stuff, if you come across either.
What a bummer, hon. You could have been a zillionaire.
I agree, most IPA’s that I’ve tasted and a lot of these craft beers are so hoppy, it’s ridiculous.
in this order.
Sip of Sunshine - Lawson’s Finest Liquids
Tropicalia - Creature Comforts
Pernicious - Wicked Weed
And so many others....
Not at 5 gallons a minute in the wet years. It’s New Mexico, whisky’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fighting. (not kidding, we were involved in a fight over a guy locally messing with the aquifer that was almost settled by “traditional means” if the State Engineer hadn’t ruled in our favor)
IPA’s are too hoppy for my taste.
Cigar City makes several awesome brews !
I love the head on that - gotta get me that!
How Lincoln County War of you!
New Mexico is a time machine. The 17th century is only a couple miles down the road.
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