Make IPA Clear Again

[Hwk-I-St8]

OK...for you hazy haters, here's some fuel for you. I went to a local brewery that I really like (and I've met and like/respect the brewer) and they had a NEIPA and a west coast IPA on the menu...clearly labeled.

My wife got the NEIPA and I ordered the west coast IPA. The west coast was deliciously bitter yet very juice-hop flavor forward. It was really a spectacular beer but any NEIPA hater would have been mortified as it's really a fusion of the styles and, interestingly enough, exactly the style I had planned for my next IPA. Here's what it looks like:

 

[Qhrumphf]

I've got some fresh hazy in the fridge and some ultra fresh brilliant WC DIPA also in the fridge. Guess I'll have to drink both innit?

 

[NewJersey]

Modern west coast is kinda that nowadays.
Had a bunch of things like that in San Diego a few months ago.
I prefer classic west coast IPAs.
This thread has definitely run its course I guess.
We all know where we stand and to each their own

 

[Qhrumphf]

Modern west coast is kinda that nowadays.
Had a bunch of things like that in San Diego a few months ago.
I prefer classic west coast IPAs.
This thread has definitely run its course I guess.
We all know where we stand and to each their own

Pretty sure that conclusion could have been drawn from the first page of this thread, nay, before it even started.

The rest is a few who take themselves too seriously and the rest of us having a laugh.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Pretty sure that conclusion could have been drawn from the first page of this thread, nay, before it even started.

The rest is a few who take themselves too seriously and the rest of us having a laugh.

It's also a place to ***** about about the cloudy murk....

 

[Robert65]

Real question is, how has this thing managed to not get booted into Drunken Ramblings.....

 

[ba-brewer]

There are side bets going on, no interfering.

 

[VirginiaHops1]

There have been studies that show that people who dislike hazy beers have small peckers

 

[Robert65]

There have been studies that show that people who dislike hazy beers have small peckers

You have the under on one of those bets?

 

[Schlenkerla]

There have been studies that show that people who dislike hazy beers have small peckers

Not true I just checked... LoL [emoji16]

Oh schit my beer I'm drinking is hazy. #15

They changed it's style from NEIPA to Hazy IPA.

 

[Robert65]

They changed it's style from NEIPA to Hazy IPA.

To distinguish it from Chunky IPA.

Hazy is so old school.

 

[Robert65]

Yep.

 

[ba-brewer]

Hey is lupin olfactory shift a thing?

If it is I feel sorry for the folks that when WC to EC, pretty soon every thing will taste like bud light to them.

 

[NewJersey]

Not gonna lie all the NEIPAs don't taste the same to me, but they're all very similar imo

 

[day_trippr]

I would agree the best ones are very similar.
But that likely reflects my definition of "best".
So I won't...

Cheers!

 

[NeoBrew]

There have been studies that show that people who dislike hazy beers have small peckers

It's all relative. They are HUGE compared to the hazy beer drinkers who have none at all. Kind of like the wine cooler crowd, don't you think?

 

[day_trippr]

So, point of order here: if I really needed to fill a hole in my keezer and did an accelerated (but not burst) carb of a classically constructed and brewed WCIPA such that the keg got roiled and is a good week or so short of bright...

Should it be immediately launched towards the Sun...or will the Loyal Association of Haze Haters abide, under "original intent"?

Cheers! (Asking for a friend )

 

[NeoBrew]

So, point of order here: if I really needed to fill a hole in my keezer and did an accelerated (but not burst) carb of a classically constructed and brewed WCIPA such that the keg got roiled and is a good week or so short of bright...

Should it be immediately launched towards the Sun...or will the Loyal Association of Haze Haters abide, under "original intent"?

Cheers! (Asking for a friend )

A good WCIPA would not be flabby and fruity even if it was still a little cloudy. That is the difference.

 

[Schlenkerla]

So, point of order here: if I really needed to fill a hole in my keezer and did an accelerated (but not burst) carb of a classically constructed and brewed WCIPA such that the keg got roiled and is a good week or so short of bright...

Should it be immediately launched towards the Sun...or will the Loyal Association of Haze Haters abide, under "original intent"?

Cheers! (Asking for a friend )

...

 

[day_trippr]

Rocky and Bigelow. They make the Sopranos look like the Vienna Boys Choir...

Cheers!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Rocky and Bigelow. They make the Sopranos look like the Vienna Boys Choir...

Cheers!

Who da fuq is Rocky and Bigelow? You sure you wanna defend your frien? Don't be a schmuck.

Admit you like the murk and we'll go easy on you.

 

[day_trippr]

lmao! I can't keep up with that at this late hour

So, OK, not like it should be a surprise to anyone that's been around these parts for long, but it's a fact I love the juice!
But...I brewed face-ripper WCIPAs for years before the NEIPA rage. I mean, 100+ IBUs (on paper, anyways) major mouth pucker eye squinshing stuff, mostly using my own home grown Chinook, Centennial and Cascade, and my sons and I loved 'em (Spousal Unit...not so much. She's a "delicate flower" when it comes to beer )

The second keg of this WCIPA should be brite on its ~second pour as it'll have a couple of weeks settling time on the clock.
In the meantime we're enjoying a slightly hazy version

Cheers!

 

[Schlenkerla]

lmao! I can't keep up with that at this late hour

Cheers!

Drink yer momma's milk and go to bed... lol.

 

[day_trippr]

Good idea - if by "momma's milk" you mean the 12% ABV stout I've been sipping that's about two minutes from kicking my a$$ into bed...

Cheers!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Good idea - if by "momma's milk" you mean the 12% ABV stout I've been sipping that's about two minutes from kicking my a$$ into bed...

Cheers!

Yes. Typically momma's milk has been BMC...

In this thread it can be the joosy-juice murk-i'an'teel'its 'ipa. It's trendy to like IPAs until you taste the real thing.

 

[ESBrewer]

When do they start brewing solid IPAs? Recently I had a thick local juice but it could still flow down the drain.

 

[GnenieGone]

It's all relative. They are HUGE compared to the hazy beer drinkers who have none at all. Kind of like the wine cooler crowd, don't you think?

 

[Schlenkerla]

Maybe he's running on this. "To Make IPA Clear Again"

 

[VirginiaHops1]

My most recent pale ale

 

[day_trippr]

A random wcipa, brewed especially for all you "clearies" out there

Cheers!

 

[6Tap]

A random wcipa, brewed especially for all you "clearies" out there

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Cheers!

What a fine looking beer!! [emoji482]

 

[VirginiaHops1]

This beer was fire, but someone from this thread is going to need a combover when they pick it up thinking it's a clear bitter IPA and have an aneurism

 

[lowtones84]

Hazebro trigger warning.

Yes, I did brew a historical IPA at a historically accurate gravity. It is 120ish calculated IBUs, and will be aged on Brett C in a SECONDARY for 4 months. It will be bone dry and crystal clear!

(Disclaimer: I do actually like good hazies. Just playin with everyone. But I am really making this beer.)

 

[Nagorg]

IPA and Brett... A great combo!

 

[Virginia_Ranger]

It’s a pale ale but damn!

Disclaimer I either brew murk bomb hazy or bright as days!

 

[ba-brewer]

I do an occasional NEIPA, but normally more of a west coast IPA on tap. So to keep thing in balance this what I currently have on tap. Denali Azzaca and Citra.

 

[Qhrumphf]

might get in trouble for this one but it's really f***ing funny

 

[jjw5015]

Please just let this thread die.

 

[schematix]

might get in trouble for this one but it's really f***ing funny

This is difficult to say, but the boomers are right.

 

[bracconiere]

Please just let this thread die.

LOL, now i've got to keep 'please delete' on my mind to post in....


and honestly, i only use 1.5-2oz's hops in a 10 gallon batch, and i manage to make cloudy beer everytime! i just don't look at it much, and glad it still makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside!