FVillatoro
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Hello mates, I just want to share something that happened to me as I entered the world of brewing and expanding my beer palate.
I, as well as a large majority, was introduced to craft beer with IPAs from Stone Brewing Co. The first time I had an IPA I was just amazed by the taste of hops and alcohol and that started me on an hoppy-bomb craze. IPAs made room for double IPAs and even tripple IPAs and the higher the IBUs printed on the bottle the better.
Tasting other beer style came to me as completely "bland and not hoppy enough" and I completely bypassed them. My palate had shifted to just looking for hops that everything else just simply tasted either like nothing or too sweet.
This went on for probably a solid 3 years of just "hop head" mentality until one day I realized that there's seriously a ton of other beer styles and that I was limiting myself to just one style and IBUs. So that lead me into trying out English brown ales, oatmeal stouts, and so on. I began tasting so many other complexities like toffee, bready notes, fruity notes, raisin... before I knew it, I realized that I had completely re-introduced myself to the craft beer world.
Now I enjoy porters, stouts, kolsch, and even lagers. Funny thing is that when I have an IPA I can no longer stand the hop-forward super dryness that I once loved, in fact.... I think that I no longer enjoy hop forward beers as I once did. I can't even remember the last time I bought an IPA.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar experience?
Thanks for reading!:rockin:
I, as well as a large majority, was introduced to craft beer with IPAs from Stone Brewing Co. The first time I had an IPA I was just amazed by the taste of hops and alcohol and that started me on an hoppy-bomb craze. IPAs made room for double IPAs and even tripple IPAs and the higher the IBUs printed on the bottle the better.
Tasting other beer style came to me as completely "bland and not hoppy enough" and I completely bypassed them. My palate had shifted to just looking for hops that everything else just simply tasted either like nothing or too sweet.
This went on for probably a solid 3 years of just "hop head" mentality until one day I realized that there's seriously a ton of other beer styles and that I was limiting myself to just one style and IBUs. So that lead me into trying out English brown ales, oatmeal stouts, and so on. I began tasting so many other complexities like toffee, bready notes, fruity notes, raisin... before I knew it, I realized that I had completely re-introduced myself to the craft beer world.
Now I enjoy porters, stouts, kolsch, and even lagers. Funny thing is that when I have an IPA I can no longer stand the hop-forward super dryness that I once loved, in fact.... I think that I no longer enjoy hop forward beers as I once did. I can't even remember the last time I bought an IPA.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar experience?
Thanks for reading!:rockin: