A good IPA is good beer, the recent trend to “let’s shove as much bitterness as we can into this Triple/Quadruple IPA” is just people drinking shit beer because it’s the cool thing to do.
I can’t wait until malt liquor gets popular with that same crowd.
Speaking of IPAs [sound of beer can cracking open]
Uh, what?
The recent beer trend is to shove as much powdered hops in beer as possible to make a juice bomb. The bitter IPA craze got passed by hazy IPAs years and years ago.
Triple IPAs are just clown beers that breweries make occasionally to prove they can.
I thought the latest craze is fruity IPAs. Seems like they’re everywhere.
If you go to Limeyland and have an IPA, it’s just a nice pint o’ bitter that’s slightly more…ummm…bitter, and the ABV is 4% max. I don’t know why US microbrewers decided instead to make chewable death brews and badge them as IPAs.
My fridge beer is Founder’s “All Day IPA”, which has an ABV of 4.7% and just over 40 IBUs. It’s also $18 for a 15-pack at HEB, so it checks a number of boxes. I will literally drink this stuff all day. It gets you drunk, but it takes a while; i.e. you’re not being carried out halfway through your second.
Fruit IPAs are just an abomination.
I like that I can buy a 18 pack of Hopadillo for $22.00 at H-E-B. For me, that’s a good keep in the 'fridge ready to drink beer.
That used to be my go-to at home - and often times outside too - but at 6.6% ABV it’s pretty punchy.
I usually keep a 12 pack of some variation of Samuel Adams in the fridge.
I like the Summer Ale and Winter Ale and a slew of their other seasonal offerings.
The Cherry Wheat is great but I haven’t been able to find it in a few years.
Have no idea what the IBU or ABV is.
I’m gonna have me one as soon as I finish this cup of PG Tips.
You’re free to buy whatever you like, but that’s lining the pockets of AB InBev, who are doing everything they can to snuff out craft beer.
Fair enough. It’s just not my style of beer.
eta: nod to @Limey, “Chewable Death Brew” is an outstanding band name.
A few years ago some buddies and I were sharing a gondola ride in Colorado.
One of my friends mentions something about a brewpub or whatnot.
The guy across from us growls “you Americans and your fucking craft beer…”
Turns out he was an engineer for Guinness.
Mark knows more than a little about craft beer.
I probably purchase more beer from Real Ale Bottling Company (I really like their Devil’s Backbone). It was a sad day in the craft world when Karbach was purchased. I justify it by rationalizing I’m helping to keep some Houstonians employed rather than just increasing the coffers of AB InBev.
Real Ale makes some great stuff. Devils’ Backbone is a good one, but a few bottles of that and it’s night night time.
Yup, Devil’s Backbone will sneak up on you and kick your ass.
Your ass if you’re lucky.
But it’s named like such a light hearted good time!
Way back when I was living in New York I used to buy the Brooklyn Brewery beers fairly regularly. Brooklyn Lager was a go-to. This is before things got out of hand and they started brewing 749 different beers. They had only a few different products at the time, and one day I saw one called India Pale Ale. Back then there wasn’t such a thing as IPA, you had to spell it out. Anyway I bought a six pack and one night I got into it. Back then I was way yonder too stupid to know to look at the alcohol content on a beer bottle or can. So I drank a normal amount as I was sitting there doing whatever I was doing back then, probably either listening to music or arguing with you goons over the internet, maybe both. So after three or four or however many I got up to go to the bathroom and no lie I damn near fell over. I was astonished.
Back then nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say!