Cascadian dark?
I'll take it.
American Dark Ale aka Black IPA aka Cascadian Dark Ale.
Black IPA is an oxymoron. How can it be black and pale?
Cascadian Dark Ale is just silly for so many reasons.
American Dark Ale is a reasonable, good name for the style.
You're up, bragona71.
LOl.. I have thought about the "Black IPA" only after a neighbor who is analytical like yourself asked how is it a pale ale and so dark?
"Black IPA". OK. Now you're pulling a fast one, fella. IPA's are the current fad. So you make a hoppy version of a dark ale and you don't know how to sell it. So you call it Black India Pale Ale? This is where I draw the goddamn line. It's not pale, buddy. There is really no way around this fact. Black is not pale.
"India Pale Lager" Oh my god. Shut up. IPL is a thing? The closest analogy I can think of is if someone took a whole wheat bread recipe, adapted it to use rye instead of wheat, and then called it "Whole wheat rye bread."
Anyway, enough antisocial pedantry from me. Post a real challenge when you're ready, bragona71.
you just made me fall on the floor laughing. Where would we be without marking geniuses
I have been in the bread industry for 15 years and I have seen a million attempts at re inventing bread but a whole wheat rye we have never tried!!
Enjoy by?
Ooh, didn't think of that. It's probably that.
Grapefruit Sculpin
Hmm, so you had it during a visit to SoCal but not at a brewery.
I am assuming you didn't have it at California Adventure (I am not sure what they're serving these days... I had fun at the wine and cheese tasting at the Sonoma area many years ago, though I'm sure they're serving garbage wine and cheese if you're an aficionado of those things)
The fact that you were in the North OC area could be a giveaway (Bruery, Bottle Logic) but if you didn't have it at a brewery then that doesn't help very much.
Is it an Orange County brewery?
Valiant Alpha drive?
Somewhere along the line, "Pale" started to mean "Hoppy" instead of pale colored. (I blame Sierra Nevada for this, although they didn't intend it)
Then, "India Pale" started to mean "Really hoppy".
Then, "Double India Pale" started to mean "Really, really hoppy and strong."
So now we have these words that are used to signify things that they have no bearing on. Because marketing.
It makes me sad, to be honest.
Pale Ale - Ales are considered stronger and hoppier than lagers, but a "light" colored beer is considered marketable. So you make a Pale Ale as a way to market a light, dry, hoppy ale. I can get behind that.
India Pale Ale - hoppy and pale. The word "India" is kind of a kitschy, historical idiom. I can get behind that.
Double/Imperial India Pale Ale - "Imperial" universally means "higher gravity," another historical reference from when beers were distributed overseas to imperial colonies. If you take the "Double" with respect to the "I" in "IPA", then it expands to "IIPA" or Imperial IPA. I can get behind that, sure. Makes a certain amount of sense.
"Black IPA". OK. Now you're pulling a fast one, fella. IPA's are the current fad. So you make a hoppy version of a dark ale and you don't know how to sell it. So you call it Black India Pale Ale? This is where I draw the goddamn line. It's not pale, buddy. There is really no way around this fact. Black is not pale.
"India Pale Lager" Oh my god. Shut up. IPL is a thing? The closest analogy I can think of is if someone took a whole wheat bread recipe, adapted it to use rye instead of wheat, and then called it "Whole wheat rye bread."
Anyway, enough antisocial pedantry from me. Post a real challenge when you're ready, bragona71.
modern times city of the sun
Already guessed that one. It's tasty!
****! haha i skipped over your novel that you wrote :cross:
i change my guess to Alpine- Duet!
Green Flash Rayon Vert
YepIs it a Southern California brewery?
Palate Wrecker
Le Freak
Hop odyssey
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