Skeptidelphian
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I like balanced IPAs but I am personally moving more into Belgian sours and trappists as a matter of personal taste. Hops are awesome, but I am sick of hopbombs everywhere.
I make exceptions like that also.
My folks for example aren't going to want me to bring beer to sit around and drink every weekend or whenever they break out the grill.
Golddiggie said:I make sure to keep mom well stocked with my home brew. She really likes my pale ales/IPA's. I simply bottle up some off of tap/keg and bring them over when needed. She was saving me bottles for a while, but since I don't like to use long necks, I had her stop. She's about to retire and has offered to help out on some brew days, or with other parts of it.
Now if I could only get my sister and bil to stop drinking that [commercial] swill so much.
Sonofgrok, I'll be in ABQ tomorrow. I'll take those other 22 IPA's off your hands.
I have never been a big fan of IPAs. It has been so long since I had one though and IPAs are all anyone I talk to seems to be able to talk about that I got suckered back into trying one and I am again disappointed.
I don't buy beer anymore. I love the beer that I brew but beer isn't something I go out of my way to buy commercially and taste etc. I am really more of a wine drinker.
Anyway, my pipeline ran dry with the cider I am supposed to be drinking now needing more time to age. I have some wine but I really wanted to drink some beer or some cider or some bubbly. My wife was at the stor and I asked her to pick up a sixer for me.
She came home from costco with a 24 pack of Marble Brewery IPA for me. Now I actually LOVE Marble brewery and their IPA has high marks so I figured what the heck.
Yuck. As I am trying to choke down my second, thinking about being stuck with 22 more of these things, I am reminded... I really can't stand IPAs.
Am I the only one? Crazy? Or is there anyone else out there that just doesn't like IPAs?
P.S. As far as beers go I love stouts and the occasional amber also brewing a hefe right now that smells AWESOME and I can't wait to try so its not that I am a beer hater and I try all different styles. IPAs just seem super popular with people and I can't stand them.
You might as well just press the liquid out of hops & bottle it.
This sounds good, lets try this!!!
I think I am going to try to get some people to come drink it this weekend. I will buy friends using IPA currency cause I don't think I can drink the rest of these. Lol
gratus fermentatio said:You are not the only one. You are not crazy; well at least not for the sole reason of disliking IPA's, you MIGHT have other issues that would qualify you for that descriptor. :fro: I can't stand IPA's.
In my not so humble opinion, IPA's & their variants are some of the nastiest of beer styles. You might as well just press the liquid out of hops & bottle it. I'm not a fan of the ESB's either. "More bitter doen't mean more better."
If somebody wants an IPA or one of its' variants, more for them. They'll never have to worry about me taking their last beer. I'll stick to the maltier side of the brew style chart, but I'm always up for a wee taste of a style I've never had or a new brew of some sort. And I reserve the right to enjoy a RIS or a Nordic juniper ale once in a while.
Regards, GF.
She came home from costco with a 24 pack of Marble Brewery IPA for me. Now I actually LOVE Marble brewery and their IPA has high marks so I figured what the heck.
Yuck.
I remember not liking IPAs, but it was around the time that I would argue the merits of Miller Lite over Bud Lite.
Growing hops really made me a hop head.
Next time you brew, even if it is a lite lager, get a full on whiff of the hops in the bag.
See if you like the smell. I LOVE it.
Once I made that connection, I tasted not just bitterness, but "Hops". Total mind f*CK.
Golddiggie said:Have yet to try a wheat beer I can actually drink.
Try a Chain Breaker from Deschutes.
I like what I like. Sometimes what I like is different than what I liked before. Sometimes its the same.
You should like what you like too. Sometimes what you like will be the same as what someone else likes. Sometimes it will be different.
I think that covers it
...this old man will say that,IMO,the original, real, un-usurped version of IPA is pretty dang good stuff, that being British of course. Everything else is just trying to use up hops, and was a devious plan instituted by the hop growers of America
Interesting thread......I too jumped on the IPA bandwagon and bought a 6er of Stones IPA, could not even finish one, gave the rest to co-worker friend.
On that, we actually agree.
As I have been choking these down... I will say this... very quick buzz on.
I am sure we can agree on more than that. I too am a AHA member and really like the Celtic carved paddle head in your avatar. See, the generation gap might not be too bad after all.
Yeah, and next you'll be another hop head and we can cancel this whole thread!
Gap might not be as large as you think... Well, maybe it is. I hear you went to grade school with Methuselah. j/k
Isn't is sad when that happens? Almost like watching them put down Old Yeller...
No no no. It still tastes like ass. It just gets you drunk.
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