Thankfully it looks like this craze of IPA IPA IPA in the craft beer world is starting to wane a little with other styles like classic Pils and Gose and sour beers happening.

I was at an outdoor party Saturday night and all they had was craft IPA and Miller Lite. I'm sorry but I don't find these thick, heavy IPA's to be a refreshing summer beer at all! It sounds like craft brewers love them, especially newer less experienced ones, as they are hard to screw up and mistakes can be masked with even more hops.

I guess I'm biased having spent 4 years in Germany and grew to love a good classic Pils or Hefeweizen type beer, to me both of these are perfect summer beers.

Anyone else not a huge fan of these IPA's dominating the American beer scene?

The only IPA I could really stand to drink is Dogfish Head 60/90/120 minute, most others are a struggle.

I'm really not a fan of all the IPAs either. I've been wondering why they became some popular myself. I know a lot of drinkers and I swear half of them are lying when they say they enjoy an IPA.

India Pale Ale is a reproduction of a beer that had to taste that way so it wouldn't rot, not because people preferred the taste.

My favorite beers are local. McGuires light ale, Abita Amber (fairly close) and 30-A beach blond. I think a lot of people act like they like the IPAs because they think it's trendy.

I can't stand it either. IPA is one of my least favorite styles. Traveling now, it's hard to find unique beers because the taps are loaded with them. Personally, I am more of a German beer fan.

If I hear shandy one more time I'm gonna kill myself. All these IPAs and Session Ales, what the hell is a session ale. Fuck you I want a beer. Whether its bud light or becks its beer you twat.

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as they are hard to screw up and mistakes can be masked with even more hops.

Couldn't have said it better. I hate IPA. Like you, I prefer pilsner and lager. Especially in Bavarian style.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I know a lot of drinkers and I swear half of them are lying when they say they enjoy an IPA.

I love IPA. They can be hoppy, or citrusy, light or heavy. Lots of variation.

I do truly love a good IPA or Double IPA. That said, most of what's out there sucks, and they can't hide it from me with more hops.

But even more than I love a good particular whatever food/drink/beer, I enjoy variety. I'm looking forward to one of my favorite seasonal hefes coming up soon. Bubbler by New Glarus, an unlikely candidate, but it's fantastic! I'm not going to run out nearly as soon this year, planning on stocking WAY up!

IPA's have been falling off for quite a while among the newer craft breweries and home brewers that I know. Most beer drinkers I know don't like IPA's all that much. Most go for lagers, ales and stouts. I'm more of a stout guy (Guiness is my go to), but once it warms up I start steering more towards wheat beers.

I don't order IPA's typically but I will try them because they're beer and I want to try them all

The Dogfish head 60/90 are good. Never had the 120 but I was going to make a trip down there maybe in August to see the brewery and try it there.

Neshaminy Creek Brewing has one called County Line IPA, it's decent. They are local to me so I will sometimes order that at a bar.

I like some, but not many, I suppose you could ferment tree sap if they didn't exist. I'm a fan of Belgian beers, wild ales, and some stouts.

Green flash le freak is a great tripel IPA mix.

Me at a brew pub

"Do you brew a German-style lager, something like a Spaten or Weihenstephaner?"

Uh-h, I don't think so, I can check...
He said "No," about the closet you can come is our 'Barely There Wheat Beer.'

"I'll try the 'Just-Like-Fat-Tire Ale,' thanks."

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Originally posted by Timdogg6:
All these IPAs and Session Ales, what the hell is a session ale.

A "session ale" is an IPA that's hopped more lightly and has somewhat lower alcohol by volume than more full-bore IPAs. They're called "session" or "all day" IPAs because you can drink more of them, for longer, without burning out on the taste or becoming so blitzed you can't stand up

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Originally posted by Timdogg6:
Fuck you I want a beer. Whether its bud light ...

Bud Lite is beer only in the very loosest sense of the definition of "beer." "Mildly beer-flavoured carbonated water" would be a more apt description.

The reason real beers are not served at near-freezing temperatures is because they can be. The reason the pop-fizzle rice-water most Americans call "beer" is served so cold is because, if your taste buds weren't numbed by the cold, and you could actually tell what it tasted like, you wouldn't drink it.

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Originally posted by Timdogg6:
or becks its beer you twat.

Maybe real Beck's, but...

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If you've been drinking Beck's in America, you've been punked for thinking your brew is from Bremen.

Beck's is made in America, just like Bud. In fact, they're crafted in the same breweries.

Source: Deceived Beck's beer drinkers can guzzle $50 refund

The common mass-produced "beers," like Budweiser, bear about as much resemblance to beer as a McDonald's burger does to a real burger. That's fine if that's what you like, but, it ain't beer, any more than grape flavoured Kool-Aid is grape juice.

Btw: Heavily-hopped IPAs aren't the only craft beers available. Not by a long shot. There's every kind imaginable, incl. German-style lagers (what Bud pretends to be), stouts, etc.

I'm a fan of the IPAs but there does seem to be a huge flood of them to the market. Here is the beer capital of Milwaukee, there are some really good local brewers that have developed some other brews that keep my taste buds happy trying their brews. But I'll post this picture to show you why I spend 30 minutes trying to decide on what to bring home...and this is only the domestic they have!

Guess I am in the minority, love me some IPA.

I brewed a black IPA a couple years ago that was fantastic. I think the brewer who came up with the recipe called it Darth Vader.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

I don't care for most beer, but I can't fucking stand super hoppy ones for sure.

I am not a fan of all of fruity crap coming out.

My favorites are Sweetwater 420, Miller high life and Wernesgrüner Pilsner sold at Aldi, depending on my mood

Just give me a Sam Adams or an Anchor Steam or a Sierra Nevada Nooner and I'll be just as happy as a clam.

IPA's I rarely drink anymore.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I know a lot of drinkers and I swear half of them are lying when they say they enjoy an IPA.

I love IPA. They can be hoppy, or citrusy, light or heavy. Lots of variation.

Liar!!

I love IPA's, I DONT love that it's become a competition to see who can make theirs the hoppiest. I cant drink half of them anymore.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Thankfully it looks like this craze of IPA IPA IPA in the craft beer world is starting to wane a little with other styles like classic Pils and Gose and sour beers happening.

I was at an outdoor party Saturday night and all they had was craft IPA and Miller Lite. I'm sorry but I don't find these thick, heavy IPA's to be a refreshing summer beer at all! It sounds like craft brewers love them, especially newer less experienced ones, as they are hard to screw up and mistakes can be masked with even more hops.

I guess I'm biased having spent 4 years in Germany and grew to love a good classic Pils or Hefeweizen type beer, to me both of these are perfect summer beers.

Anyone else not a huge fan of these IPA's dominating the American beer scene?

I think there are plenty of people out there that feel exactly as you do. But I do generally get looked at funny when I suggest that I don't like IPA's. I think I'd rather submit to a spinal tap procedure than drink an IPA.

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Originally posted by cmr076:
I love IPA's, I DONT love that it's become a competition to see who can make theirs the hoppiest. I cant drink half of them anymore.

Perhaps this is my problem with them too.