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

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RIP brown IPAs

I thought you were playing with me. Yike.

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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.
 
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.
 
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.

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Wood. Baseball bats. How this flavor juggernaut was surpassed by hazy IPA’s I’ll never know.
 
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::
 
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.
 
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.
 
This used to rustle my jimmies.

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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.
 

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