IPAs taste good, get over it

[Anonymous No.10439243]

At this point, the anti-IPA circle jerk has become more obnoxious and self-congratulatory than the IPA craze ever was. There are plenty of good IPAs, but snobs shun the style as a whole because of their immense popularity.

What IPAs do you like, /ck/?

[Anonymous No.10439256]

I'm not super into them and just prefer clear pilsner if I'm even drinking beer at all.

[Anonymous No.10439263]

>>10439243
I didn't like IPAs because they are bitter as fuck. I realized if you drink them more often you get past that, similar to black coffee. It was all down hill from there. I still prefer other shit though.

[Anonymous No.10439269]

>>10439243
Well balanced ones with very little bitterness. I prefer pale lagers desu though.

[Anonymous No.10439274]

I switched to wine at the peak of the IPA craze
It's ultimately a much more interesting beverage

I still get beer a few times a month but I've largely abandoned it as a hobby, it's for dullards tbqh

[Anonymous No.10439294]

>>10439243
>Anti ipa circle jerk
I thought that died in 2015. We are on the anti sour beer circle jerk now

[Anonymous No.10439296]

>>10439274
what’s a good place to start with wine? I like all kinds of beer if that matters

[Anonymous No.10439300]

I prefer strong IPAs/pale ales over the vast majority of beers since for whatever reason, yeast flavor makes me fucking ill

I'll drink fuel-esque liquor or whatever other sort of intense flavor, but starchy/yeasty fucking slays me

[Anonymous No.10439309]

>>10439296
Try socky. It pairs well with pocky.

[Anonymous No.10439314]

It's for nu-males that think drinking shit and growing beards shit makes them manly in their "I'm with her" shirts

[Anonymous No.10439316]

>>10439296
Cabernet suavignon for red and riesling for white

[Anonymous No.10439319]

>>10439274
'look im a faggot, does everyone know im a faggot?'

[Anonymous No.10439364]

>>10439314
that's trappist ales, sours, $8/bottle stouts, and expensive imports. IPAs are normified as fuck and probably the best-selling style in the US next to cheap domestic lager.

[Anonymous No.10439402]

>>10439364
beer brewed by monks sounds fucking cool, is it the atheist numale wave to drink it ironically or some shit like that?

[Anonymous No.10439405]

>>10439296
If you're new to wines try some semi-drys or petite varieties until you adjust to the spectrum. Look for crisp and bright character in white wines and stay away from moscato and chardonnay. In red wines sweetness is generally undesirable unless it's a dessert wine or port. Red wines should be low-acidity and fruit-forward, with the body being provided by a tannic quality that shouldn't be so strong as to dry out your mouth but enough to make it feel full. Nothing's worse than a thin red wine.
Hope this helps!
t. Michigan Sommelier

[Anonymous No.10439421]

>>10439243
I kind of lost my taste for IPA's. Used to love them but switched to imperial stouts over the winter and that's where the real luxury is. Have a shot of a nice bourbon or whiskey, then have a Ten Fiddy - that's nice.

Picked up a few Dogfish Head 90 minutes this weekend as the weather has been nicer and wanted something more refreshing (in a way). Decided to have a shot and follow it up with the IPA and it was terrible. The flavor combination was very bad and by the time my pallet adjusted to the IPA it was like hop juice *YUCK*

Green Flash's West Coast IPA and the 90 minute were my favorite toward the end of the run there though.

[Anonymous No.10439430]

>>10439319
>hey everyone I’m not gay ok? look at thith beer, would a homo drink beer? I’m tho thraight I could jutht eat you up honey

[Anonymous No.10439433]

>tfw have a bottle of pliny the elder waiting in fridge

How good is it really? I have a feeling it's overrated.

[Anonymous No.10439473]

>>10439402
No it's people who want to come off like they know something about beer so they drink these beers that have been around forever and are widely available, but for some reason they think they're special because they're foreign and above average

[Anonymous No.10439484]

I love IPAs

Theres a good one thats 8.4% and it just tastes good, unlike similar 8% malt beers.

[Anonymous No.10439495]

>ipas taste good, get over it
You manage to even post like a numale.
>and thats a good thing

[Anonymous No.10439509]

I wouldn't know about IPAs. I oonly drink beer from the oldest brewery in the world that is brewed by monks in a small Abbey in Germany.

[Anonymous No.10439523]

Just be careful you guys don't burn yourselves out with hopbombs, I did that for a few years because I had friends that were brewers and now all I want is a pbr or a yuengling

[Anonymous No.10439524]

>>10439405
This.
t. Wino

[Anonymous No.10439535]

>>10439523
You can take the faggot out of Ameeica, but you can't take Amwrica out of the faggot.

[Anonymous No.10439538]

>>10439243
I’m not even a s*yboy, and I love ‘em.

[Anonymous No.10439539]

>>10439509
Wheat beers gets boring fast
>t. Just drank some

[Anonymous No.10439548]

>>10439243
I'm pretty sure the anti-IPA people are mostly underage/new to beer and bitching because they haven't acquired the taste yet. That's how I was and that's how the kid who used to live next to me is being right now

[Anonymous No.10439599]

>>10439548
I'm 37. It just got boring. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're boring.

[Anonymous No.10439612]

>>10439548

if you had to “acquire the taste” for beer you don’t like beer. you’re just able to tolerate it after desensitization to your revulsion

drink something else and stop worrying about seeming “grown up”. maybe a white russian out of a sippy cup?

[Anonymous No.10439615]

>>10439473
>>10439509
like clockwork

[Anonymous No.10439616]

>>10439243
I honestly think they taste pish and always have

[Anonymous No.10439625]

>>10439524
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamous_study_on_wine_tasting.html
tl;dr: you are full of pretentious shit and this has been replicated multiple times.

[Anonymous No.10439635]

Torpedo from Sierra Nevada is probably my favourite American beer.

[Anonymous No.10439638]

>>10439548
I drank ipas for yesrs and now i csn stand them, stouts and porters sre my main stay.

[Anonymous No.10439659]

>>10439625
>one specific scenario set up by a wine expert knowledgeable enough to pick the right wines to challenge people’s overconfidence in wine tasting vocabulary was repeatedly cited by plebs as “proof” of a conspiracy to make them feel dumb
ftfy

[Anonymous No.10439674]

>>10439535
I pride myself on being stupid but even I have no idea what you're trying to say or what semblance of a point you're trying to make. Irony aside, it's just gibberish and nonsense.

[Anonymous No.10439687]

>>10439659

[Anonymous No.10439707]

>>10439687
You know there's an actual test to become a somm, with right and wrong answers, yes?

Since it's not customary to mix food coloring with wine in a restaurant context, the only concern is being able to pick a wine, as it comes out of the bottle, that will taste good with food.

They do a pretty good job of that usually.

[Anonymous No.10439759]

>>10439707

[Anonymous No.10439760]

>>10439707
It's a bullshit test and it means next to nothing in any restaurant. Their is a craft beer certificatory equivalent called a "cicerone" that is even more laughed at then the almighty title of "sommelier"

[Anonymous No.10439766]

>>10439759
>>10439687
They also do a pretty impressive job of causing butthurt from insecure neckbeards who think wine will turn them gay

[Anonymous No.10439770]

>>10439760
>Master Somms don't regularly pull six+ figures

ok fag

[Anonymous No.10439774]

>>10439760
> Their is a craft beer certificatory equivalent called a "cicerone"
So what we learned today is that beer is bullshit and all tastes the same

[Anonymous No.10439775]

>>10439766
>projecting this hard

[Anonymous No.10439787]

>>10439770
for every "master" sommelier there are 50,000 alcoholic sloppy messes that can't even tell a a pino from a merlot. Same thing goes with beer "experts", one in tens of thousands has the palate and the capability to make it a career and that's honestly about it.

[Anonymous No.10439795]

>>10439770
Kim Kardashian pulls a hell of a lot more than that if your measure is purely financial. Guess she is the apex of entertainment then isn't she?

[Anonymous No.10439801]

>>10439787
>the most elite level is elite
You don't say

[Anonymous No.10439869]

>>10439801
Oh jeez I'm sorry maybe I didn't make my point clearly, I'm of the opinion that your "profession" is on the same level of legitimacy of a witch doctor or a fucking tarot card reader. I would rather ask a homeless man what he thinks about wine then some pretentious day drunk roastie slut

[Anonymous No.10439882]

>>10439869
Thanks, it’s good to know you think so highly of software development

Not sure why you think we’re wine experts though

[Anonymous No.10439886]

bitter piss water

[Anonymous No.10439890]

is rainier an ipa? it's always the cheapest one wherever I go so i usually get that
I'm definitely in the beer is a meme school of thought. My thinking is that it's all to do with the alocohol, because beer tastes slightly better than mixed drinks but literally anything without alcohol in it probably tastes better than beer. Like a coke or lemonade.

[Anonymous No.10439999]

>>10439774
You could blindfold me and I could tell you exactly what style beer I was drinking.

[Anonymous No.10440024]

>>10439274
>tries desperately to justify $50 USD for 750ml.

[Anonymous No.10440069]

>>10439890
rainier is a standard american adjunct lager

[Anonymous No.10440080]

>>10439243
I often get the red racer ipa but i enjoy pretty much any of them

[Anonymous No.10440089]

>>10439243

[Anonymous No.10440198]

Deschutes Fresh Squeezed is really good. I don't drink a lot of IPAs because they make me shit like a sumbitch though.

[Anonymous No.10440636]

>>10440198
i remember absolutely loving fresh squeezed the first time i had it, on tap at a bar. i don't like it quite as much out of the bottle or can, but it's serviceable. it smells fucking amazing

[Anonymous No.10440650]

>>10439433
the best. ignore the h8rs

[Anonymous No.10440691]

Just bought two 4 packs of these over the weekend. Lone pint makes some great beers

[Anonymous No.10440711]

>>10439433
it's overrated af
tbf it's a solid IPA if you like them but it's all hype

[Anonymous No.10440712]

>>10439869
Why does it make you so angry that some people know a lot about wine?

[Anonymous No.10440738]

>>10439314
This.
I have only seen faggots drinking IPAs. You have to take it up the ass to enjoy that fruity shit.
The lager is the man's drink.

[Anonymous No.10440752]

>>10439243

People who don't like IPA's don't like beer. End of story. No need to think too hard about it.

[Anonymous No.10440761]

>>10439433

It's an aromatic hop forward double. If you don't drink it within a month of bottling you're not going to get the real experience.

[Anonymous No.10441574]

>>10440712
Because hollywood has basically used wine as a lazy stand-in for "stuff that makes me feel unsophisticated" since the dawn of the moving picture. It's like slipping on a banana peel. Nobody knows why it's funny, we're just programmed to know it's the signal that "this is funny". Likewise with wine, it triggers some deep programming that gets laid down well before we're old enough to drink that operates below our reflective consciousness.

Just the sight of wine-related paraphernalia triggers a primordial fear of being humiliated by a snobby waiter or somm, by your date who comes from a higher social class, or by the villain with a vaguely foreign accent and of course wearing glasses because reading is for cucks. Be wary. Be strong. Wine is coming to try and make you look bad.

And the hero always "wins" by being "authentic" and "folksy" aka fighting back against wine oppression. So people think they're being somehow patriotic or defending the common man by flying off the handle with rage when the subject of wine comes up.

>>10440711
Is there even still hype around Pliny? I thought the backlash against west coast styles had basically rendered it uncool to even admit to knowing who RR brewing even is.

[Anonymous No.10441626]

>>10440738
the new sam76 flavor is the perfect beer

[Anonymous No.10441670]

>>10439433
It's another double ipa

[Anonymous No.10441755]

the problem with IPA is that the hipsters who make non-mainstream IPAs make them as bitter as possible to prove a point they never really articulated properly

>immense popularity
wtf? everyone drinks lagers and all the most popular brands of beer in north america are lagers or blondes

[Anonymous No.10441765]

>>10439296
>what’s a good place to start with wine?
the deppanneur, or as you yanks call it, the "corner store"

seriously, just look at the backs of the bottles for a description of the wine. they're usually accurate, if a bit optimistic about how good it actually is. if there isnt a meaningful description, put it back, it's probably too shit to be even worth the 10$ and the manufacturer knows it

[Anonymous No.10441768]

>>10439314
>drinking shit and growing beards shit
it's really amazing how much of modern "masculine" culture is a parody of itself, in turn based on literal cartoons and caricatures

[Anonymous No.10441772]

>>10441765
>they're usually accurate
in europe maybe
in america mislabeled food is legal

[Anonymous No.10441785]

>>10441772
>in america mislabeled food is legal
wtf i already knew that "chocolatey (there is no chocolate)" is a thing but if you pick up a bottle of wine and it describes itself as "dry with hints of citrus" it'll actually probably be just grape juice with brandy in it?

[Anonymous No.10441791]

>>10441765
Fuckin Quebec Frenchman

[Anonymous No.10441795]

>>10441791
VIVE LA QUEBEC LIBRE
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

[Anonymous No.10442407]

>>10441574
>Is there even still hype around Pliny? I thought the backlash against west coast styles had basically rendered it uncool to even admit to knowing who RR brewing even is.

of course there is, idk why people are saying IPAs are dead now, they're bigger than ever. Go to any brewery or even any store that serves beer and it's filled with IPAs. Pliny the Younger was released a month or two ago at RR and it's like a fucking Mecca pilgrimage to Santa Rosa

[Anonymous No.10442425]

>>10442407
West coast style ipas aren't popular anymore

[Anonymous No.10442461]

Not a fan of IPA. I'm more of an ale and lager guy. But hey, if you like IPAs more power to you

[Anonymous No.10442463]

IPAs are a Jewish scam. It's something for mid-20's college graduates to waste their money on, while feeling very smug and mature and masculine. You should see the look on these people's faces when they start talking about IPAs.. it's a serious, smugged-out normalfaggot expression that I can't find a word for.. "profound phoniness" is the only phrase that comes to mind.. also beer in general lowers your testosterone and makes into a faggy cuck.. drink Scotch and wine if you want to pretend that you're sophisticated.. at least scotch and wine get you drunk .. fuck...stupid, stupid goyim.

[Anonymous No.10442466]

>>10442425

Fuck off. The hazy NE style fad is going to fucking die before it ever gets off the ground. West Coast will never die.

[Anonymous No.10442484]

>>10442466
West coast style is dead, outside of California. Most people have transitioned to better balanced ipas. The hop bombs can only go so far.

[Anonymous No.10442557]

>>10439243

Space Dust > Stone IPA > Stone Ruination > Ballast Point > Anderson Valley > Victory > 60 Minute > Shipyard > Goose > New Belgium

Don't think I've had the other two.

[Anonymous No.10442567]

>>10439243
Imperial Amber ales and Imperial brown ales are better. You need some sweetness to offset the bitterness.

[Anonymous No.10443060]

>>10439294
>We are on the anti sour beer circle jerk now

What's wrong with sours? I've always loved sour food, and discovering that sour beer is a thing exponentially improved my drinking life.

[Anonymous No.10443100]

>>10439274
>grape must, fermented
vs
>different malts, unmalted grains, hop variety with different terroirs, steeped in local water, fermented with brewer's yeast, of which there are hundres of strains
hmmmmmmmm
which beverage could possibly be more complex?

[Anonymous No.10443143]

>>10439243
i actually had space dust yesterday.
it's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.10443227]

>>10443060
It's popular.

[Anonymous No.10443232]

>Buy some IPA today to try it out because of this very thread
>Actually doesn't taste half bad

Brand was Leffe, i dont think it's sold in the US at all, probably France only

Any frenchfag with any knowledge of local beer to enlighten me ?

[Anonymous No.10443280]

ipa bad

[Anonymous No.10443508]

>>10443100
obviously wine since it’s so complex you simply gave up on attempting to articulate the wine making process or agricultural factors

[Anonymous No.10443618]

>>10443100
Dont be dumb. The same wine changes every year with the same grapes due to changes in the climate they're grown in. On top of that different regions end up with different flavors from the same grape from different soil and growing condition. Wine is extremely complex. Beer can be as well. They also can be very simple and shitty. They're both great beverages.

[Anonymous No.10443813]

>>10443232

Leffe is owned by inbev so it's pretty easy to find in America. I haven't had their IPA but their blonde and brown ales are alright. Nothing special.

[Anonymous No.10443878]

>>10439243
I'm not on the hate train. I even drink an IPA once in a while. It's true that there's no good reason or their extreme popularity, but I just try to ignore it and drink the beer I like.

[Anonymous No.10444032]

>>10443232

>don't think leffe is sold in the US

You're kidding, right?

[Anonymous No.10444316]

>>10444032

Typical French elitism. Leffe is one of those beers that actually offends me because it markets itself as an "Abbey beer" when it's just a bottom tier Belgian made by a massive brewing company. At least Budweiser and Miller have no pretenses.

[Anonymous No.10444344]

>>10439314

Confirmed beardlet

[Anonymous No.10444518]

>>10443618
the year to year variation is easily the smallest factor, the reason there's so much focus on it in wine journalism is that some aspects of wine journalism focus on niche cult wines, at the most extreme a single vineyard can get a lot of attention, so when the same vines on a single small patch of land gets worked year after year according to a highly publicized set of rules, and the grapes are processed in a very specific fashion, and everyone already takes all that stuff for granted, the only thing left to talk about is the weather

the stuff that happens at and after harvest makes a much more noticeable difference for the average consumer drinking sub-$1000 wines

http://piacenza.unicatt.it/master/master-Viticolture_enology_2_white_winemaking.pdf

of course /ck/ being pleb city a $15 wine might as well be $1000, it's equally intimidating and will turn you just as gay

[Anonymous No.10444551]

>>10439243
no. u.

[Anonymous No.10444583]

>>10439243
Using big words doesn't make you any more right than make us wrong. The IPA craze is about as nu-male and soyboy as it gets. It's the latest style to become mass commercially produced and stocked because of these homos when plenty of better alternative exist.

Deal with it, you butt licking homosexer. Any IPA by my favorite breweries is probably a good IPA. Stone's stuff is amazing too. That Space Dust isn't half bad either.

[Anonymous No.10444610]

I've never had an IPA I liked, and I don't feel like buying them over and over again to build a taste for it or find one I actually do like.

I'd much rather just have a beer I do like, which is nearly every other fucking style of beer in existence, but whenever I try to seek out something new I find myself staring at a fucking wall of shelves full of IPAs.

So yeah, fuck IPAs.

[Anonymous No.10444723]

>dogfish head
I seriously hope none of you fell for this meme

[Anonymous No.10444747]

>>10444723
They're unironically one of the best breweries around

[Anonymous No.10444754]

>>10444610
have you only ever had California IPAs?

[Anonymous No.10444769]

>>10444583
nu males don't fucking drink beer, its way to patriarchal and problematic for them

[Anonymous No.10444772]

>>10444583
>Using big words doesn't make you any more right than make us wrong.
"Obnoxious"? "Self-congratulatory"?

[Anonymous No.10444784]

Top IPA coming through.

[Anonymous No.10444795]

>>10444784
Jai Alai is good, but when I was in FL I frankly preferred the canned Sweetwater IPA even though it doesn't have nearly the reputation.

[Anonymous No.10444806]

>>10439243
wolf pup, light for those of us that enjoy drinking without getting hung over, but flavorful enough for those of us who also like the taste of a good IPA

[Anonymous No.10444956]

When it comes to IPAs, Fatheads' Headhunter comes out on top.

[Anonymous No.10444978]

>>10443227
Sours or hating on them? Or both? Either way everyone's a fucking hipster faggot.

[Anonymous No.10444989]

>>10444583
reading is for cucks

[Anonymous No.10445017]

Probably my favorite, though it is a bit sweet

[Anonymous No.10445472]

>>10439263
>oh anon I...

Sorry for your weak palate. Have you ever been to the north east? They hate the blacks there.

[Anonymous No.10445479]

>>10439294
>2nd.

[Anonymous No.10445762]

>>10445472
that is a damn good haul

[Anonymous No.10445775]

Anyone try lagunitas waldo?

[Anonymous No.10445831]

Indisputably my favorite IPA

>>10445472
that looks incredible. I've had a couple of beers from Trillium and I'll definitely stop there again next time I'm in Boston.

>>10440738
hey their winter lager is pretty good

>>10440024
>Bernie with a Heady Topper
wtf I hate Bernie now

[Anonymous No.10445928]

>>10440024
>Why do we need more than one kind of beer when there are people in this country without a living wage

t. bernie bro

[Anonymous No.10446016]

>>10439421
>Having enough 90 Minute available to get sick of it
Not sure if I'm envious or not. I can't get it in Canada, and I've only had 2 in my life. Might be my favourite beer.

[Anonymous No.10446025]

I like IPA's in hot weather.
>trying to drink a porter when it's 90 outside
No.jpg

[Anonymous No.10446206]

IPA's are good because they get you drunk quick and there's always 6 to a pack.

[Anonymous No.10446443]

>>10439509

[Anonymous No.10446521]

>>10440738
Pale Lager is the fucking most inoffensive style of beer
Real men drink dry stouts, FESs, Baltic Porters, Bocks.

[Anonymous No.10446594]

>>10439243
I respect your taste in beer but I don't really care for IPAs.