/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I came to this thread expecting genuinely informed conversation. Instead, I came in to this:

"hurr pale ales aren't good. They're a meme beer. ipas are bad. People only drink ipas to fit in."

Someone mentioned homebrewing in the posts above, so hopefully they'd back me up on this. A recipe for a pale ale includes but is not limited to water, pale malt, hops, and yeast. They literally do not include enough ingredients to constitute a "meme beer", nor do they include enough hops to be called an ipa, thus don't meet your criteria to be labeled a "meme beer"

I'm fucking pissed off, and I don't care if it's legitimate or just a forced meme. I don't observe many beer conversations on the internet, but I visit /ck/ and I join the beer conversations.

Unfortunately, too many of you have maintained a warpath against ipas, now even pale ales, so pretty much hops in general. And for you that feel that way I have but one thing to say:

I'm sorry that you are so helplessly out of touch with the craft beer community that you actually feel justified in having negative opinions toward ipas. If you happened to actually venture outside, or even engage somebody in conversation about craft beer, it wouldn't take long for you to find that ipas are enjoyed by a significant portion of those who seek craft beer. The people I come across working with craft beer don't even bat an eye at ipas, but view them as just another style of craft beer. There is no stigma around them like you desperately try to purport - that is nothing more than an idea that you've let fester in your mind until you believed it to be true. Such an idea would be shattered so quickly by even a single venture into the outside world.

So, with sincerity, fuck this anti-ipa echo chamber that I lamentably call "/ck/"

>>8355439

>"popular for a reason" is a perfectly fine argument. The consumer is literally the only thing that dictates whether a product is good or not. Not to mention the fact that an IPA and a Bud Light aren't even in the same market nor even share overlap in target audience. The only thing they have in common are that they both can be classified as a "malt beverage", yet their collective differences distance them to the point of apples and oranges. Sure, I've shit on Bud Light, and it's because I don't identify with a Bud Light drinker in the slightest. I drink strictly craft beer, and I identify with craft beer drinkers because they have discerning taste. A Bud Light drinker most certainly does not have discerning taste.

>>8355522

>muh origin of the name

Not an IPA on the market today is made in honor of its namesake. Not to mention that every beer has hops and hop character in it, but got forbid it's anything more than just a subtlety or the tasteless spergs will start to screech about things they don't like being nothing more than memes.