I confess to you brothers and sisters, than I'm not a huge fan of hoppy beers.

[garcia]

Don't get me wrong, I'll drink one or 2, but I like malty beers so much more. I have a dogfish 60 clone (lagered though) which friends claim to like more than the actual 60... Except I can't drink more than 1 or 2.

Do I have a problem? Am I going to beer hell for it?

 

[jafo28]

You are not alone.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

HERETIC! all of you two shall be smote upon with furious waves of Furious and attacked by a Bengali Tiger! Pliny the Elder will punish you with the Resin of his justice!!! Blind Pig.




Torpedo.


Two Hearted. ok, I'm done. sorry guys. I don't know where that came from.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Abrasive.

 

[roastquake]

I don't think anyone who makes a DFH 60 clone goes to beer hell

 

[garcia]

I don't think anyone who makes a DFH 60 clone goes to beer hell

Even if it is a lager with WLP833?

 

[Zuljin]

The tide is changing.

 

[garcia]

HERETIC! all of you two shall be smote upon with furious waves of Furious and attacked by a Bengali Tiger! Pliny the Elder will punish you with the Resin of his justice!!! Blind Pig.




Torpedo.


Two Hearted. ok, I'm done. sorry guys. I don't know where that came from.

Beautiful. It's hilarious.

 

[hunter_le five]

I like a hoppy beer or two, but I agree with you, it really overloads my palate if I drink too many. I prefer balanced beers or even somewhat malt-heavy most of the time.

Above all though, I just like variety....

 

[Ridire]

I am a hop head but I feel the same about wheats. The biggest thing around here is Oberon season. I like Oberon, but it's a wheat...

 

[garcia]

I feel some support here.

 

[Hopinista]

I drink sours

 

[johnsnownw]

Hoppy and malty aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[milldoggy]

I used to hate hoppy beers till I identified what I did not like. I dislike bitter earthy hoppy beers. Love citrusy hoppy beers.

 

[schiersteinbrewing]

Make mine malty or balanced please.

I made a 5gal NB Dead Ringer awhile back ago, I think I have drank two thus far.

 

[JohnSand]

It's all good. I love hoppy beers, but not some other styles. I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't like sours, nor dubbels and trippels much either. It's a world of beer, there's something for everyone.

 

[day_trippr]

I love a good face-ripping hopsanity brew. So do my sons - and I catch my wife occasionally going for the gusto as well It's a struggle to keep the 90+ favorites on tap.

Come to think of it, my least hoppy brew is typically an American Wheat that is hopped above style in the low 40s, and the crowd tends to leave that one by the wayside while they hammer the faucets pouring in the 60s and 80s and up.

I reckon we're all unrepentant hop heads here...

Cheers!

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

I used to hate hoppy beers till I identified what I did not like. I dislike bitter earthy hoppy beers. Love citrusy hoppy beers.

Agreed but I absolutely hate iipa. Despise them. Just a pissing match if you ask me. To me. May I repeat TO ME something like founders all day ipa or what I have bottled now (3.9% c-hop ipa) is what an ipa is. I don't need 18%abv dry hopped with whole leaf hops that have passed through a marmosets bowels, then poured over a midget Hindus body then aged in Vaseline casks then bottles. Not interested. Sry for the rant

 

[Hopinista]

Agreed but I absolutely hate iipa. Despise them. Just a pissing match if you ask me. To me. May I repeat TO ME something like founders all day ipa or what I have bottled now (3.9% c-hop ipa) is what an ipa is. I don't need 18%abv dry hopped with whole leaf hops that have passed through a marmosets bowels, then poured over a midget Hindus body then aged in Vaseline casks then bottles. Not interested. Sry for the rant

I actually find when I have a double IPA (as long as it's not a stupid crazy high abv pissing match entry ) that it's actually much more balanced than a standard IPA. Like Double Jack. Hoppy and malty and so good.

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

I actually find when I have a double IPA (as long as it's not a stupid crazy high abv pissing match entry ) that it's actually much more balanced than a standard IPA. Like Double Jack. Hoppy and malty and so good.

I agree with the malty aspect of it. From a "small ipa" I guess you can call it, I usually just get hop character with little malt. But then again if I want malt ill grab a brown. I guess I have been turned off by the iipas I have had with to much alcohol heat. I just don't enjoy it.

 

[Facinerous]

Thats it. I'm brewing the most malt forward beer I can just because of this thread. Aged hops. I usually drink my product fast enough where aging isn't a concern.

Then, just despite you, I will make the most IBU laden IPA I know how.

Then... Get this... I will blend them... 50 - 50. Once again... Just despite you.

Happy brewing.



[edit] additional
I did an Irish Red not to long ago what I was pretty happy with. So I brought a six pack over to a buddies house for a few people to try. I got compliments all around. One of the comments was how many of my friends don't like IPAs or super hoppy beers. Its just a taste thing. Even with an IPA its needs to be balanced. If there is no malt backbone to support the hops, then its just an over bittered beer IMO.

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

Keep that a secret. You'll have every black rimmed glasses wearing handlebar mustache having clown in the us buying $100 22oz bottles of that. I made you a rich man. Lol

 

[Facinerous]

I will call it... The Mustache Remover.

 

[Hopinista]

To spite^

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

To spite^

I was going to post that too but after thinking and flipping through some books here. Despite you works its just an old way of saying in spite of you. In spite of you is a more formal and learned useage

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

^^^ and that's coming from a commercial fisherman.

 

[Hopinista]

Actually if you wanted to say "despite you" you'd have to drop the just.

 

[Hopinista]

^^^^ and that's coming from someone with a bachelor's degree in English.

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

Oh I was agreeing with you! I use in spite of and to spite.and I was never one for school. Mabey ill go back. I just like that sea air in my lungs and to feel my muscles work.

 

[garcia]

If you were mad at me, you would say "despise".

I read it quickly and accidentally read despise.

^^^^
That coming from a M.S. physics.

I'll probably add a pound of Vienna and/or a pound of Munich next time I clone the 60min again and double the specialty malt. :-/