Chunky Beer, Why???

[Blazinlow86]

True, it's been done to death...

Awwws no fair I was gonna use that next time on my final final last post lol. Cheers

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

I never said the style wasn’t good. I said I completely understand the desire to have a minimal bitterness. And the typical citrusy/fruity hop flavors are great. I just don’t understand the desire to make it a cloudy beer. I’m not sure how this isn’t intentional. It’s not hard to reduce the bittering charge and use those types of hops. It would become the same thing without the cloudiness. It’s how I’ve been brewing my IPAs for years now. My comment as to turning people off is in conjunction to the chunky stuff floating in the example I had. And they aren’t a crappy brewery per se. They have some excellent beers, though they also have a few that seem to miss the mark miserably in my opinion.

If you can brew a clear beer with the same intense flavor, mouthfeel and juiciness as a top tier NEIPA you've found the holy grail and surpassed some truly great and innovative brewers. It's not just lower bitterness.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

To each their own I suppose, though I have to disagree with your analogy. Aesthetics and sushi vs tacos seems to be a right turn.

So are you thinking that were these popular hazy IPAs identical in every way except clearer that they wouldn’t sell, that people would go elsewhere because it not only needs to taste great, but also needs to be cloudy?

I drank that beer right up to about the last 2 oz or so which was just a pool of yeast and possibly puréed strawberries. Just couldn’t stomach it.

I’m still curious what you think of Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA, assuming you can get it where you are.

While fresh squeezed is a good IPA, it's not even remotely close to the good NEIPAs out there. If you think it's the same only clear, either you haven't had a good NEIPA or your palate is dead.

 

[rodwha]

While fresh squeezed is a good IPA, it's not even remotely close to the good NEIPAs out there. If you think it's the same only clear, either you haven't had a good NEIPA or your palate is dead.

Nope. Never implied it was the same yet clear.

 

[rodwha]

If you can brew a clear beer with the same intense flavor, mouthfeel and juiciness as a top tier NEIPA you've found the holy grail and surpassed some truly great and innovative brewers. It's not just lower bitterness.

Not sure exactly what style Heady Topper is but it was stated to be all that but clear.

And, yes, I know it’s more than just lowered bitterness.

 

[day_trippr]

Not sure exactly what style Heady Topper is but it was stated to be all that but clear.

And, yes, I know it’s more than just lowered bitterness.

Not "clear", but not murky, or opaque a la milkshake style. It has a modest hop haze...

Cheers!

 

[Saunassa]

If you can brew a clear beer with the same intense flavor, mouthfeel and juiciness as a top tier NEIPA you've found the holy grail and surpassed some truly great and innovative brewers. It's not just lower bitterness.

A brewery up here in northern Minnesota put a Juicy IPA maybe had neipa in the name, dont recall. Oh my, nice and flavorful, actually could taste the fruity hops and all with low bitterness and none of the milkshake look. Just what looked like chill haze and people near me were commenting on how nice it was NOT to have it all murky looking.

 

[jimmypop13]

If you can brew a clear beer with the same intense flavor, mouthfeel and juiciness as a top tier NEIPA you've found the holy grail and surpassed some truly great and innovative brewers. It's not just lower bitterness.

There is a brewery here in Texas called Lone Pint that I feel has achieved something like this. They use one malt and one hop but it has low to no bitterness and a ton of malt and hop flavor. Mouth feel is dead on too. They just call it a smash beer but it tastes like what I think a NEIPA should and blows the doors off all the ones I've had. I'd love to have someone like a bjcp judge compare to a neipa

 

[jimmypop13]

The beer/wine manager at my grocery store raved about this local strawberry milkshake IPA. I was a bit hesitant and found a single to try.

The beer is ok. To me, nothing to rave about, but the aesthetics are horrible. I don’t understand the desire to have a yeast chunky beer.

This is the beer after 27 mins:



As an aside I also don’t understand the desire to have a hazy IPA such as the Juicy/Hazy/NEIPA style. What does that look add? Now were you to speak of the lack of bitterness the style has I’d wholeheartedly agree. And to be fair that look isn’t offputting as a chunky beer is. I just don’t get the why.

Honestly this beer just looks like it's sat too long and got oxidized. I've bought several beers that unfortunately say on shelves too long that werent NEIPA's and they developed these chunky floaters

 

[InspectorJon]

There is a brewery here in Texas called Lone Pint that I feel has achieved something like this. They use one malt and one hop but it has low to no bitterness and a ton of malt and hop flavor. Mouth feel is dead on too. They just call it a smash beer but it tastes like what I think a NEIPA should and blows the doors off all the ones I've had. I'd love to have someone like a bjcp judge compare to a neipa

If you are talking about Yellow Rose, it is an awesome, delicious beer with some haze to it. It is not what I would consider a NEIPA. It is an unfiltered, dry hopped mosaic/pilsner SMaSH. I'm not sure where the haze comes from, dry hopping I guess but definitely not a NEIPA.

 

[Vale71]

Honestly this beer just looks like it's sat too long and got oxidized. I've bought several beers that unfortunately say on shelves too long that werent NEIPA's and they developed these chunky floaters

That might have more to do with the fact that even though they weren't NEIPA's they were still fermented with yeast and were unfiltered than with alleged oxydation...

 

[MGamber]

That looks like something that sat in a cooler for quite a while and cold crashed in the can, forming a tight layer of yeast and hop particles on the bottom, and then broke up into chunks when it was poured. "Best by..." means nothing unless it's Enjoy By or you know what the brewery considers calls maximum shelf life. I bet it was sitting in a cooler shelf almost 6 months if not almost a year.

 

[Dland]

Hang in there, "chunky" IPA's are bound to be the next big thing. I can here them now,,ah,, but it is sooo chunky,, as they wait in line. ;}

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

There is a brewery here in Texas called Lone Pint that I feel has achieved something like this. They use one malt and one hop but it has low to no bitterness and a ton of malt and hop flavor. Mouth feel is dead on too. They just call it a smash beer but it tastes like what I think a NEIPA should and blows the doors off all the ones I've had. I'd love to have someone like a bjcp judge compare to a neipa

Compare it side by side with something from Treehouse and get back to us.