Happening to live and work in the middle of NEIPA HYPE country this is all too real and is certainly not satire. Think of it as a window into the world of the NEIPA crowd. There is a beer club at my office and the discussions and samples are almost always around the juiciest, haziest and dankest NEIPAs in the area. Some of the people I work with will pop out of the office around 10:30am to wait inline at Trillium for an hour or two on release day to get whatever new item they are selling. The bartering over trading beers in their collection is unreal too; it almost reminds me of trading pokemon or magic cards growing up.
My only concern with this fad is that all beer styles are slowly morphing into NEIPAs. I had a Lord Hobo Angelica Wheat a couple days ago at a bar and thought they might have given me one of the IPAs on draft. Even looking at the description of the beer on their website it's basically an IPA with a large percentage of wheat in the malt bill. "A New England take on a classic beer style, Angelica offers the refreshing drinkability of a wheat beer combined with fruit juice characteristics and elegant haze." ugh...
In the end though, it gives me a few more people to talk beer with so I'm content. I get to occasionally toss in some little technical nuggets and get to drink decent beer once a week with them and we do have things besides NEIPAs some weeks.
My only concern with this fad is that all beer styles are slowly morphing into NEIPAs. I had a Lord Hobo Angelica Wheat a couple days ago at a bar and thought they might have given me one of the IPAs on draft. Even looking at the description of the beer on their website it's basically an IPA with a large percentage of wheat in the malt bill. "A New England take on a classic beer style, Angelica offers the refreshing drinkability of a wheat beer combined with fruit juice characteristics and elegant haze." ugh...
In the end though, it gives me a few more people to talk beer with so I'm content. I get to occasionally toss in some little technical nuggets and get to drink decent beer once a week with them and we do have things besides NEIPAs some weeks.