Ok, my wife loves to drink wheat beers in the warm months and stouts in the cold months. This has been true for 2+ years. She will drink some of the most estery/phenolic wheat beers I have ever tried and stouts that even are a bit much for me but consistantly she will tell you "I do NOT like IPAs". She will try a sip from mine, normally wrinkle her face up and say something like "Still don't like them" or my favy "smells like cat pee and tastes like pine needles."
I have brewed and brought home MANY different IPAs and she has tried just about everyone with the same result including PTE original and clone so it is not for lack of exposure.
On Sunday night we went to a bar for the Packer game and some chicken wings. She was struggling with a beer selection and defaulted to an import wheat (Stout would not pair well with wings she thought and I agreed) and I wanted to try a NB Snowday. Not the hoppiest of IPA's or really high IBU's but it went well enough with my wings. Well, she had a taste and then made a face unlike I had ever seen before then proclaimed,"That is not bad at all!" and proceeded to order one and drank it. (I honestly expected her to give up a short way through it.)
There are a few clone recipies floating around and I now may have to make her something like that. She still has 12.5 gallons of penta chocolate stout she needs to drink...so it will be a little while. I actually wonder if by this time next year she if she will be wanting super hoppy ales...or if this is just a random anomoly?
I have brewed and brought home MANY different IPAs and she has tried just about everyone with the same result including PTE original and clone so it is not for lack of exposure.
On Sunday night we went to a bar for the Packer game and some chicken wings. She was struggling with a beer selection and defaulted to an import wheat (Stout would not pair well with wings she thought and I agreed) and I wanted to try a NB Snowday. Not the hoppiest of IPA's or really high IBU's but it went well enough with my wings. Well, she had a taste and then made a face unlike I had ever seen before then proclaimed,"That is not bad at all!" and proceeded to order one and drank it. (I honestly expected her to give up a short way through it.)
There are a few clone recipies floating around and I now may have to make her something like that. She still has 12.5 gallons of penta chocolate stout she needs to drink...so it will be a little while. I actually wonder if by this time next year she if she will be wanting super hoppy ales...or if this is just a random anomoly?