Steveruch
Well-Known Member
What's the difference?
Yes.##+*#!So "Hazy ups" = auto-correction gone rogue?
I think there is a difference.
I've had some Hazy IPAs from the West Coast that are distinctly different than NEIPAS from Treehouse, Trillium, Hill Farmstead, or The Alchemist, and possibly some others in that region. The West Coast cousins all seem to miss that ultimate pillowy softness, that milkshake-like thickness, while they tend to be a bit more assertive bitter. Many other East Coast Breweries' NEIPAs have similar characteristics as the West Coast offshoots, so it can be just really difficult to replicate real New England NEIPAs.
Also, there is no West Coast based NEIPA I know off that matches the signature of the former 4, which are the NEIPA trademark and unique in that, IMO.
You're absolutely right, I don't know why I added The Alchemist in the line-up, most of Kimmich's beers aren't that similar to the other three breweries. I did have an odd one that would qualify, not sure what the name was.I wouldn’t personally put Alchemist in the same category as the others. I wouldn’t call their beers pillowy, or soft, or lacking bitterness. They are just unfiltered IPAs made with a weird/fruity English ale yeast instead of 1056.
I think there is a difference.
I've had some Hazy IPAs from the West Coast that are distinctly different than NEIPAS from Treehouse, Trillium, Hill Farmstead, or The Alchemist, and possibly some others in that region. The West Coast cousins all seem to miss that ultimate pillowy softness, that milkshake-like thickness, while they tend to be a bit more assertive bitter. Many other East Coast Breweries' NEIPAs have similar characteristics as the West Coast offshoots, so it can be just really difficult to replicate real New England NEIPAs.
Also, there is no West Coast based NEIPA I know off that matches the signature of the former 4, which are the NEIPA trademark and unique in that, IMO.
Because that’s where they originated. Same reason breweries out west just call their elevated ibu ipas, just ipas but those who want to mimic them call them west coast ipa.Why is NEIPA an acronym for New England IPA and Northeast IPA?
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