/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The problem with most IPAs is the same problem that hot sauce has, just for a different flavor. Most IPAs are horsepiss beers with no actual noteworthy flavors that are masked with an unholy amount of bitterness. There's no actual thought put into any depth or complexity of taste, most are made with a "more hops = better" attitude. The epitome of this kind of beer is Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA; it's *terrible*.

Hot sauces have a similar problem, although a lot of these are a lot more honest in what they're trying to do: just deliver the highest amount of scovilles they can into a bottle. That's the whole point, it's a novelty of introducing a shitload of pain to your tongue.

You can find hot sauces that have actual flavor profiles, chipotle sauces (the pepper, not the fast food chain) are *great* for this. Similarly, you can find a few IPAs that are hoppy and actually do something interesting with the hoppy flavors, I personally like pic related for this. That said, I'll take a good lager over this any day of the week.