Incredible beer. Track it down.
Not sure the following here on FR for IPA, but I remember reading some posts on home-brewing a while back. It seems to be growing in popularity, though. This is from the holiday issue of The Economist. This past week, the New York Times also had a section on American IPA brewers, mostly Micro Breweries.
I love IPA’s. I like my beers like my ex fiances cold and bitter.
My first experience with IPA was when I won a solo trip to the Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, AZ. I had gotten to the hotel, but had no car. I went across the street to pick up a beer, and wanted something I hadn’t had, so I picked up a Sierra Nevada IPA. Not exceptional, but very good. While not my favorite, a safe middle of the road choice that can be taken by itself or with food.
I’ve tried hard to like IPA’s but just can’t. To bitter for me.
Drinking a Yuengling at the moment...poured in my very on Yuengling logoed beer glass.
Ping
I’ve never been able to learn to like IPAs - and that’s a problem with their current popularity, because get-togethers and parties seem to offer no other beers except IPAs.
Traveling the Great Basin, you'll occasionally see a bumper sticker that reads: "Get Icky With Someone You Love"
I brew my own and almost always an IPA. After 10 years of brewing I’ve learned to appreciate those microbreweries that stick their neck out to try and make it amongst the thousands that are now out there.
If you can’t brew a good IPA you won’t make it.
Beer ping.
I like beer, but I don’t like it if it is too “hoppy”.
Which is funny, because hops is the flower for my birth month.
I like anything from Bud Light to Guinness, so I have a wide range of taste, but I don’t like it “too” bitter.
Jai Alai IPA by Cigar City brewing is, by far, the best I’ve ever had.
Incredible beer. Track it down.
Here’s my fav.
Real Ale Brewing Company.
Blanco, Texas
DEVILS BACKBONE.
It’s the bomb.
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.
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.
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.
in this order.
Sip of Sunshine - Lawson’s Finest Liquids
Tropicalia - Creature Comforts
Pernicious - Wicked Weed
And so many others....