Why is everyone only into IPA's

[Patch62383]

I love IPA's but I like them to be balanced. I really love the new stone ruination that's how I prefer my IPA's balanced yet hoppy and slightly malty

 

[brick_haus]

If you want a lot of aroma. I'd add hops every 5 minutes after the 20 minute mark and at flame out. I'd dry hop with cascades 2 ounces

Is this for a 15 gallon batch?

 

[Patch62383]

Send me your recipe if you don't mind

 

[Patch62383]

2 ounces for a 5 gallon recipe

 

[Patch62383]

What's your bittering hop?

 

[charles]

Making an ipa with 5 hops, MT hood centennial US fuggles cascade and Chinook. Going to transfer to a secondary. Should I dry hop more cascades?

Added half of the hops 15 minutes before the end of the boil then dry hopped the rest. Used fresh off the bine cascades and Chinooks 3oz each. Should be very interesting how it's going to taste . And this will be the first time using a secondary. Any advice on how to transfer from secondary to bottle?

 

[Patch62383]

Why are you doing a secondary?

 

[charles]

Clairity

 

[Silentdrinker]

Your friends need to get with the times. Now everybody is all about sours and gose and session beers. Get ahead of tomorrow's trend and start brewing an organic kale Pennsylvania Swankey today!

I am one of those who can appreciate what goes into a sour, and I can detect what is considered a good sour, but I just can't stand to drink them.

Cascade barrel house in PDX does some pretty amazing sours. Between 4 of us, we ordered 6 or so tasters. I sipped every single one of them. I could appreciate what they did, but there was no way I would order a pint or even snifter of one of those beers.

I really liked their burbonic plague, and it was the one I could see myself drinking if I "had" to, but I'd probably have a hard time finishing anything over 2oz of the stuff in a sitting.

 

[Patch62383]

If dry hopping I'd wait until fermentation is complete than transfer into a secondary and add the hops. Make sure you dont splash the beer or do anything to oxygenate the beer. I would purge the secondary with co2 prior to transfering and if your dry hopping good luck with clarity you'd be better off adding gelatin to clear the beer up

 

[Michigan_Wolfman]

I'm pretty sure that everyone isn't into just IPA's. If they are, how sad for them, because there is a whole world of flavors out there in the realm of beer. Personally, I love just about any beer that's well balanced in terms of hops and malt flavor. I've tried a few palate wreckers like Stone Brewing's Arrogant Bastard, but just couldn't get past the overwhelming amount of hop bitterness.

 

[Patch62383]

IPA's are great I can do hop bombs but I prefer a balanced floral IPA. The yeast is very important in hop character in a beer as well

 

[rlmiller10]

The IPA craze is one of the steps I will be highlighting in my upcoming Masters Thesis paper and submission to HomeBrewTalks articles collection, "The steps of Beer Appreciation".

It is a pendulum swing...the Macro-beer drinkers get sick of the watery, fizzy, tasteless swill, and they discover a different kind of beer, usually a Sam Adams, sometimes a Hacker-Pschorr. I call these the "gateway-beers". This leads them on a journey, and often this journey takes them on the pendulum swing down the path of the IPA simply due to the hunger for massive flavor. Over time, their tastes evolve and they discover various Stouts, Porters, Barley wines, Imperial IPAS, Sours, Belgian Ales, and more as they mature through the appreciation of the cornucopia that is beer.

Need to add Fat Tire to your gateway beers as they got to many small town midwest places before Sam.

 

[Patch62383]

The beer that got me into craft beer. Odell 90 schilling

 

[Gavin C]

You need a bigger mash tun bigger boil kettle and lots more ingredients lol. I usually brew 10-12 gallon batches

What is so much harder about a 15 gallon batch over a 10? it is just bigger equipment not really anything else expect obviously scaling your recipe to fit the boil size and having the right amount of fermenters

Make another thread then hijacker.

Never mind lads, enjoy your "why are IPA's so (insert descriptive) thread.

I'll get my coat...

 

[normonster]

Never mind lads, enjoy your "why are IPA's so (insert descriptive) thread.



I'll get my coat...

I can't tell if you're making fun of the ******* from that 15 gallon batch thread or if you're also a *******.

 

[joshesmusica]

poor OP, lad doesn't even realize that people are taking the mickey out of the thread...

 

[1977Brewer]

I can't tell if you're making fun of the ******* from that 15 gallon batch thread or if you're also a *******.

Because there's a third answer you're ignoring here.

 

[joshesmusica]

I can't tell if you're making fun of the ******* from that 15 gallon batch thread or if you're also a *******.

damnit all, i hate when i miss out on a good jackassery thread... link?

 

[Patch62383]

Can't we all just get a long?

 

[joshesmusica]

*along...

i'm pretty sure that this guy:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=525615

hates this particular thread.

 

[Roadliner]

Can't we all just get along?

Not unless you like only IPAs

 

[Patch62383]

Don't correct my ****ty spelling it sickens me. LoL

 

[catdaddy66]

I like a good (ok, great) IPA like most members but I brew many styles from America, the UK and Eastern Europe.

Man cannot live on IPA's alone..,

 

[55x11]

Read this tirade against Hoppy Beers, by a writer who has no expertise in craft beer at all.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/...rness_is_ruining_craft_beer_s_reputation.html

maybe I would agree with anti-IPA stand, it is a bit out of control.
But with anti-IPA backlash, I am now forming anti-anti-IPA backlash-backlash. (AKA = Pro-IPA position).

My simple case - IPA and Double-IPA or imperial-IPA is the one beer that is authentically american (don't even mention english IPA, it's a very different beer altogether!). The explosion in the variety of hops available, many grown in US pacific northwest, is just amazing, and it's changing the craft beer forever - not just in US but around the world!

So IPA has now taken over the world and ignited a revolution of craft beer than spawned all kinds of styles.

You are welcome!

Saisons, barley wines, imperial stouts, bitters - would not get appreciation from general public they get now, if it wasn't for fascination with IPA.

IPA is basically the gateway drug that hits customers in the face with the hoppiness, makes those people fall in love with craft beer (compared to dull taste of BigBeer commercial selection) and leads them to discover other, wonderful beer styles that exist out there.

If you don't like IPAs - don't drink them. Problem solved. Order something else. But whatever you are drinking, you owe it to the IPA phenomena. Don't cut the branch you are sitting on.

 

[bobeer]

I dig IPA's, for sure, but I equally like to drink, and brew, other styles as well. Having a nice hoppy beer on tap is always needed at my house. That's why I have more than 1 tap because a brown or a stout is also always needed. Variety is the spice of life. Brew and drink what you like. If it's only IPA's I guess that's cool; we all have our ole faithfuls. I pretty much only brew American styles of beer because that's what I like. I'll probably branch out one day but right now I'm pretty damn happy where I'm at and that feels really goooooooood :fro:

 

[Patch62383]

Amen bobeer. I love IPA's but I also love stouts, porters, wheats you get the idea. Life's too short to only drink one style of beer

 

[NervousDad]

Why does everyone worry about what others are into. I love IPAs, pale ales. I used to HATE them. I don't like most sours, but you'll never hear me complain about the trend.

 

[Patch62383]

This isn't no IPA but I guarantee you'd love my anomalous Amber and

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[Patch62383]

Amber ale sorry fat fingered it