Let's Remember Some Beers (In Memoriam: Old IPAs)

[coach1]

RIP brown IPAs

I thought you were playing with me. Yike.

The only brown IPA (BIPA? BRIPA?) I remember having was from 10 Barrel back in the pre-InBev days. It was actually pretty good.

But I don't know if it was ever really a trend, or just an attempted trend that never got any footing. It also came around in the wake of Black IPAs IIRC, so that may have been a factor.

 

[thebandit1]

Completely random but this beer is the best black IPA I’ve ever had:

And the barrel-aged version is a top five beer for me.

I’m old. I remember when Shorts was good.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

The only brown IPA (BIPA? BRIPA?) I remember having was from 10 Barrel back in the pre-InBev days. It was actually pretty good.

But I don't know if it was ever really a trend, or just an attempted trend that never got any footing. It also came around in the wake of Black IPAs IIRC, so that may have been a factor.

This -- and White IPA, for that matter -- felt like brewers throwing out ideas in hopes of staying ahead of IPA trends. Brown was the last untried IPA color of the SRM rainbow, and Blue Moon was the #1 "crafty" beer at that time.

 

[jmgrub]

Let's consider all of the IPA sub-genres that have since bitten dust:

- Red IPA
- White IPA
- Black IPA
- Rye IPA
- Belgian IPA
- Brett IPA

Please correct me if I've forgotten any.

Too bad American-style barleywines are still around.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Too bad American-style barleywines are still around.

I'll still order a FFF Behemoth if I see it on daft, and sometimes I convince myself that I *do* want a Bigfoot, but otherwise, yeah, I tend to agree.

 

[ripps1]

Brut IPAs too, please.

I forgot about those. Good call

 

[coach1]

I forgot about those. Good call

I wish I had forgotten about them.

 

[bramsdell]

RIP brown IPAs

When this first came out (bombers), it was ******* fantastic. Like 8.5%, creamy brown ale base, and an nice piney hoppiness to balance it out. Better than any black IPA I've ever had.

The sixers were a shell of this beer's former self.

 

[CSO]

Let's consider all of the IPA sub-genres that have since bitten dust:

- Red IPA
- White IPA
- Black IPA
- Rye IPA
- Belgian IPA
- Brett IPA

Please correct me if I've forgotten any.

Wood. Baseball bats. How this flavor juggernaut was surpassed by hazy IPA’s I’ll never know.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Wood. Baseball bats. How this flavor juggernaut was surpassed by hazy IPA’s I’ll never know.

Oh man, wood-aged IPAs. Good call. I was always partial to the Humidor IPA.

 

[ripps1]

Wood. Baseball bats. How this flavor juggernaut was surpassed by hazy IPA’s I’ll never know.

Wait, aged on maple baseball bats??? Seriously, I hate beer sometimes.

 

[thebandit1]

Wood. Baseball bats. How this flavor juggernaut was surpassed by hazy IPA’s I’ll never know.

I still dig White Oak Jai Alai.

Shell of its former self but still pretty good.

 

[KevSal]

Remember when they tried to make White IPA a thing?

i swear saranac released a white ipa people we’re flipping for, i clearly remember how absurd it sounded but people were hitting the trade boards hard for it

 

[davey101]

This used to rustle my jimmies.

God damn was this stuff incredible. I always got so much peach out of it.

 

[davey101]

I thought you were playing with me. Yike.

 

[thebandit1]

Not a hoppy brown but now I miss Sierra Nevada Tumbler.

 

[davey101]

Not a hoppy brown but now I miss Sierra Nevada Tumbler.

Ahh man, that was a good one!

 

[Stubs]

That's the beer that got me into all this ******** in the first place.

 

[PrinceCasual]

Too bad American-style barleywines are still around.

sometimes I convince myself that I *do* want a Bigfoot, but otherwise, yeah, I tend to agree.

Why would you say such things, heathens?

::tithes to the barleywine gods with YET ANOTHER 4cs offering of Bigfoot, that shall not be opened for at least a decade after the label date::

 

[FoudreGuy]

Wood. Baseball bats. How this flavor juggernaut was surpassed by hazy IPA’s I’ll never know.

Fremont Brewing created that with a Mariners relief pitcher who now owns Center of the Universe Brewing in Virginia. First season it was only available at the brewery and Safeco Field.

 

[FoudreGuy]

Let's consider all of the IPA sub-genres that have since bitten dust:

- Red IPA
- White IPA
- Black IPA
- Rye IPA
- Belgian IPA
- Brett IPA

Please correct me if I've forgotten any.

Green Tea IPA. Stone did one with Baird (Japan) and Ishii (Guam) for Tohoku disaster relief and it was damn good.

And yeah, coach 10 Barrel’s Oregon Brown was really awesome.

 

[Locker338]

Awesome checking in on this thread everyday

So many good beers and memories! Victory Hop Devil was probably my IPA gateway beer but I lived off of this one for years after working 2 jobs out of school:

loved it!

 

[litheum94]

Brut IPAs too, please.

This. Worst variant of IPA ever. I'd rather drink a million white IPAs.

 

[litheum94]

Green Tea IPA. Stone did one with Baird (Japan) and Ishii (Guam) for Tohoku disaster relief and it was damn good.

And yeah, coach 10 Barrel’s Oregon Brown was really awesome.

******* loved that green tea from stone.

 

[PrinceCasual]

This. Worst variant of IPA ever. I'd rather drink a million white IPAs.

White IPA was like nothing really, dry hopped witbier I guess? They were fine, if uninspired.

 

[litheum94]

White IPA was like nothing really, dry hopped witbier I guess? They were fine, if uninspired.

Whatever they are, still a million times better than Brut IPAs

 

[jmgrub]

Why would you say such things, heathens?

::tithes to the barleywine gods with YET ANOTHER 4cs offering of Bigfoot, that shall not be opened for at least a decade after the label date::

Just not a fan. Most of them taste very metallic to me. Only posted it in this thread because most American barleywines taste like over-hopped and overly bitter West Coast TIPAs.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

i swear saranac released a white ipa people we’re flipping for, i clearly remember how absurd it sounded but people were hitting the trade boards hard for it

Wanting to get the potential top tick of some new style category makes much more sense in the pre-IG beer scene.

 

[JulianB1]

This used to rustle my jimmies.

The first year I went to Hunahpu's Day was 2014, aka the RiotPu fest. I was one of the lucky souls who showed up early so I got to drink a bunch of good beer, including stuff like b1 Mornin' Delight, but the best thing I had all day was a rum pineapple variant of white oak Jai Alai. That **** was so ******* good.

 

[matedog]

I traded this **** for Guave Grove. That's about as 2013 a story as I'll ever have.