India Pale Ale

[Anonymous No.6467945]

I'm on the hunt for the world's best IPA. So far, Northern Lights from Starr Hill has destroyed everything else I've tried.

Anyways, post your favorite fu/ck/in IPAs.

[Anonymous No.6467968]

dank meme beer friendo

[Anonymous No.6468090]

I haven't had too many so my answer is obviously going to be quite meme.
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Lagunitas IPA

[Anonymous No.6468102]

>>6468090

Lagunitas is on my top 10. Try Sam Adams Rebel Rider if you like those.

[Anonymous No.6468116]

My favorite.

[Anonymous No.6468118]

>>6468116
What I'm drinking right now. The former is better.

[Anonymous No.6468170]

>>6468116

I have never seen this anywhere. I enjoy the Daytime IPA and I tried the "Little Sumpin'" while I was in Miami. I haven't found it anywhere else though.

[Anonymous No.6468186]

I have had almost a 6 of these little niggers

and holy shit, my butthole is going to be mad tomorrow

[Anonymous No.6468213]

UK represent
If you haven't already, check out Brew Dog

[Anonymous No.6468218]

>>6468170
I would check specialty stores if you have them. I live in California so Maximus isn't hard to find at BevMo or even super markets with a large selection. It may be a limited release thing they do though.

[Anonymous No.6468221]

>>6468213
I'm a big fan of Samuel Smith's Indian Ale. That is one of my favorite breweries in the world. The Nut Brown Ale is off the charts good.

[Anonymous No.6468334]

>>6468221
>tfw live in glorious sammy smiths country
>sovereign bitter on tap all day erry day
it's a good feel

[Anonymous No.6468341]

Correct UK answer coming through; watch out!

[Anonymous No.6468343]

>>6468334
My jelly is off the charts, my English friend. I will settle for bottles, though.

[Anonymous No.6468355]

ritual brewing company's art of dankness.

for me, it is simply the end all be all of DIPAs. I should say that I haven't tried Russian River's Pliny the Elder, but if thats better than what I got from Ritual, it would have to have been brewed by Jesus himself.

good luck finding it outside southern california though, hell just in the Inland Empire alone.

[Anonymous No.6468366]

>>6468334
tbh their cask & keg stuff is really nothing special, except the stout. Still, v. cheap for pretty good beer and the pubs are usually v. nice.

>>6468341
This, honourable mentions to beavertown & Kernel

[Anonymous No.6468389]

>>6468366
Yeah, I know sammy smiths isn't the finest, but the quality to cost ratio is the best you'll ever get buying in a pub

[Anonymous No.6468412]

[Anonymous No.6468436]

>>6468355
I had a bottle Of this in Houston a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous No.6468582]

Rating highly inflated because of what a bitch it is to get, depending on where you live. Great IPA though, pretty much perfect.

[Anonymous No.6468668]

>>6468582
>Rating highly inflated
>Great IPA though, pretty much perfect.
uhuh

[Anonymous No.6468684]

This shit is damn good.

[Anonymous No.6468850]

Seconding Heady Topper, because it really is the best.

Fiddlehead IPA is another favorite of mine, but I'm not sure you can get it outside of VT.

[Anonymous No.6468852]

>>6468668
It's over hyped to all fuck, people are pretty big faggots about it.

[Anonymous No.6468867]

>>6468118
>>6468116
Had a brown sugar sub two nights ago. Idk what people see in this beer

[Anonymous No.6468875]

>>6467945
I thought the most recent Stone Enjoy By 4.20.2015 was off the charts. Two Hearted Ale by Bell's in Comstock, MI is also super good but only out of cans or on draft, bottles are terrible. Senita and Akari Shogun from Half Acre brewing in Chicago are also really solid.

In the long run it really just depends on where you live and how fresh you can get the beer. It also depends on your taste, I prefer a danker, more viscous IPA while some people prefer the dry citrus-y flavors of other IPAs.

[Anonymous No.6468877]

>>6468867
Lagunitas Sucks? That's a great bottle my friend, possibly just not for you though.

[Anonymous No.6468885]

My favorite IPAs are:
Stone Enjoy By
Surly Abrasive
3F Arctic Panzer Wolf
Avery The Maharaja
Revolution Unsessionable
Pipeworks Mosaic
Bells Two Hearted Ale

[Anonymous No.6468887]

>>6468875
>Akari Shogun
That's a wheat ale

[Anonymous No.6468986]

>>6468877
I love beer. I'll stick to the beer I know I like. Just wanted to try a beer ck likes

[Anonymous No.6468992]

Revolution anti-hero

[Anonymous No.6468995]

>>6467945
>storing IPA in the fridge.
Stick to the Bud Lite you're used to OP.

[Anonymous No.6469003]

I don't want to start a whole other thread for this, so the tl;dr is: What kind of beer should I try to get into drinking beer?

I don't drink now, mainly just because I haven't liked the taste of beer at all. But I hang out with a lot of people who like IPA's and it would be nice to get a drink with them.

So what kind of beer do you all recommend for people to "acquire" the taste?

[Anonymous No.6469022]

>>6469003
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

[Anonymous No.6469032]

>>6469003
What state do you live in

[Anonymous No.6469038]

>>6469032
Colorado. It also doesn't have to be an IPA, I'm just looking for a gold beginner beer, I guess.

[Anonymous No.6469041]

>>6469038
>good beginner beer
Not gold. Whoops.

[Anonymous No.6469042]

>>6469003
wheat beers

[Anonymous No.6469048]

>>6469041
Ballast point pale ale, they are light in alcohol but good taste. When you get used to it you should move to IPA . Stronger taste with more alcohol

[Anonymous No.6469049]

>>6469003
Just drink better beer than you're used to and try to understand what people see in it. When I was about 19 and had only ever drank what we had around at parties, I tried Blue Moon and thought it was the finest stuff on earth. Now I'm over my beer tasting like artificial orange and coriander, but it got me into trying different, exciting flavors in beer. If you're into macro lagers, try a Helles or Kolsch from a respected brewery.

You seem to be interested mostly for the sake of shared interests with your friends, so why not ask them for beer recommendations instead of a Mongolian hentai image board? Unless you're friends with douches, they'll be excited to give you good recommendations rather than try to blow your face off with high IBU monsters.

[Anonymous No.6469054]

>>6469049
Lol Mongolian

[Anonymous No.6469061]

>mfw I prefer American West Coast IPAs to European IPAS

[Anonymous No.6469078]

>>6467945
blind pig, grapefruit sculpin, chin music are $$$fire

[Anonymous No.6469206]

>>6469003
I had a Victory Prima Pils the other day and I thought it would be a good beer for someone to get into good beer. Easy to drink, pretty good flavors.

[Anonymous No.6469220]

>>6469038
Look for anything by Odell. They are brewed in CO, and have a diverse lineup of top shelf beers. Try the Easy Street Wheat if you like grassy, floral flavors, Cutthroat Porter if you like coffee/chocolate flavors, 90 Shilling Ale if you like sweet, caramel and woody flavors, 5 Barrel Ale if you like earthy, subtle grainy flavors, Odell IPA if you like bitter, fruity flavors.

[Anonymous No.6469221]

Try" Humbolt brewery" its 100% pure hemp. Best tasting beer of my life!

[Anonymous No.6469350]

>>6468995

I just used google, faggot. Assumptions make an ass out of only you.

[Anonymous No.6469356]

>>6469003

Go buy a pick-6 at your local store. They are usually only 10 bucks and you can start picking which beers you enjoy and write down the ones you don't enjoy.

Also Guinness Extra Stout

[Anonymous No.6469364]

>>6469049

>doesn't enjoy Blue Moon anymore

Everything you said made perfect sense except for that.

[Anonymous No.6469393]

>>6469364
I used to enjoy Blue Moon, but don't anymore. What's confusing? I burnt out on the White Wheat style in general and BM is a terrible example of it.

[Anonymous No.6469403]

>>6469393

Nothing beats a well-poured Blue Moon with an orange peel. Idk, maybe I haven't been drinking long enough to lose interest in a beer yet.

[Anonymous No.6469587]

>>6468995
IPA should be served between 45 and 55 degrees.

[Anonymous No.6469613]

>>6468885
Surly abrasive is probably the best DIPA I've ever had

[Anonymous No.6469622]

>>6469403
>Nothing beats a well-poured Blue Moon with an orange peel

except

pic related

[Anonymous No.6469627]

>take a light beer
>mix it with pin-sol

perfect IPA

[Anonymous No.6469643]

>>6469403
Going to a restaurant and getting a tall blue moon after working outside all day in the hot sun is one of the most satisfying feelings ever.

Tastes so good.

[Anonymous No.6469649]

>>6467945
>bought sierra nevada IPA seasonal sampler 12 pack
>drank 6
>mild hangover

Shit guys that was my first time trying IPA's. Shit hit me harder than I expected. I can normally drink a 6 pack of beer and feel fine the next morning.

[Anonymous No.6469651]

>>6469622
You could've posted any other wheat beer and would've been correct. Blue moon really isn't bad, but it's the worst wheat beer I've ever had

[Anonymous No.6471730]

>>6468852
How can it be overhyped more than pretty much perfect other than perfect?

[Anonymous No.6471735]

My vote, so good.

[Anonymous No.6471818]

Surprised this thread isn't a storm of shitposting.

[Anonymous No.6471821]

>>6471735
That looks fucking gay.

[Anonymous No.6473005]

>>6471821


Educate yourself you twit.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster

[Anonymous No.6473015]

>IPA

[Anonymous No.6473492]

>>6471735
>Belgian Style IPA
>Fully-blown Fedora branding

Nope.

[Anonymous No.6473968]

>>6471735
I'd get this just for the packaging. It's bretty gud?

[Anonymous No.6473990]

>>6473005
>implying that a Hitchhikers reference makes it any less gay

[Anonymous No.6473994]

>do I hear IPA?

[Anonymous No.6474007]

>>6473015
>>6473492
>>6473994
Fine, here's your reply.

[Anonymous No.6474030]

>>6474007
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.6474035]

>>6474030
>Not even wearing a fedora

are you deliberately trying to be a moron

[Anonymous No.6474041]

>ctrl+f
>nelson
>finds nothing

Nelson by Alpine brewing is pretty much my favorite IPA, little hard to get, but fully worth it.

[Anonymous No.6474043]

>>6468213
Got to be my favourite beer of all time. It straddles the line of bold flavoured but drinkable perfectly for my taste. Still kinda wish it had stayed at 6% but it's not a deal breaker.

[Anonymous No.6474117]

beep boop

[Anonymous No.6474166]

[Anonymous No.6474189]

>>6474030
>no fedora

He doesn't even look like he would wear a fedora, he looks like the classic variety of neckbeard.

[Anonymous No.6474224]

The world's best IPA is as good as the world's worst shit beer.

[Anonymous No.6474338]

>>6474035
>HUUUURRR DUUUURRR NOT EVEN WEARIN A FEDORA GUIZE

[Anonymous No.6474356]

>>6474338
be nice.Most IPA'sare just a bit too
"hoppy"for my taste. Originally designed for long sea voyges hence the extra hops to preserve the beer.really has nothing to do with India, but "kingfisher"is pretty good beer There now,that should get a lot of people pised

[Anonymous No.6474731]

>all these over-hopped bastardisations

High tier English style IPA here.

[Anonymous No.6474740]

>>6474731
This nigga gets it

[Anonymous No.6474873]

>>6474731
>over hopped

The only time in my life where i felt like i should not finish the beer (i still finished it because it was expensive and i am poor) because of over-the-top hoppiness was a Mikkeller 1000 IBU.

[Anonymous No.6474983]

>>6467945
Star Hill a shit. Try Marble IPA or Steamworks Third Eye IPA

[Anonymous No.6475140]

>>6474873
Yeah that stuff is dumb

[Anonymous No.6475231]

>>6467945
>Starr Hill
Dude I actually live in Charlottesville. Starr Hill is great. I went to their brewery and tried a bunch of bizarre stuff.

[Anonymous No.6476728]

vale ipa is good

[Anonymous No.6476994]

>>6474873
Yeah, though sometimes if I'm hitting the piss hard if something has bitterness without much flavour>>6474873
or if it has a lot of bitterness I don't like it. Otherwise there's not much I don't like if I'm having casual drinks. I'm a big fan of trad British IPAs but I've had some really tidy West coast style US IPAs too, I don't see why people have to choose a camp to sling memes from.

[Anonymous No.6477157]

Not the best, but really damn good

[Anonymous No.6478722]

You need to get to Tampa, Florida and try this.

Best IPA I've ever had.

[Anonymous No.6478765]

>>6468875
Stone Enjoy by 3.14.15 was also otherwordly good. The only IPA I've had that was as good or close is Fat Head's Hop Juju which is pure, oily, hop perfection.

[Anonymous No.6478773]

>>6474117
Better be fantastic, because I had a Golden Monkey tonight and it was fucking horrible.

[Anonymous No.6478777]

WATCH OUT NIGGAS IM POSTING THE MOST SUPERIOR IPA ON BLOCK

[Anonymous No.6478815]

>tfw work at a Brewery/Restaurant as a chef
>get 2+ free shift beers after each shift
>over 20 in house on tap
>3 of them IPAs

I can't pick but there's one that's delicious and ridiculously alcoholic. It has 5 different kinds of hops and is simply delicious.
7.1% I believe.

Here's some of our stills just sitting around

[Anonymous No.6478828]

>>6478777
Hoosier friend?
Dat citrahops.

[Anonymous No.6478833]

>>6478773
>golden monkey
>horrible
Opinion discarded

[Anonymous No.6478849]

>>6478773
>>6478833
A lot of people don't like Golden Monkey. I haven't had it in a long time, from before I even really knew anything about beer or actually liked it and was underage. But in general Victory is a good brewery.

[Anonymous No.6478883]

>>6469022
>tastes like a floral arrangement
>leaves foul taste in mouth after 3
>wake up the next morning and still taste it

speaking from personal experience I wouldn't recommend this to anyone trying a "craft beer" for the first time.

[Anonymous No.6479030]

>>6478815
>ridiculously alcoholic
>7.1%
>wat
>stone ipa is 6.9%
>entry-level ipa

[Anonymous No.6479058]

>>6478883
It's a fucking American classic you peasant. Entry level for sure, but it's a classic.

[Anonymous No.6479113]

>>6478883
It's entry level as fuck, one of the beers that most of my friends who now like craft had as their first craft beer.

[Anonymous No.6479131]

>>6474041
This.

Nothing can compare

[Anonymous No.6479148]

>>6479113
inb4 the
>or as the rest of the world calls it ... beer
faggot turns up

[Anonymous No.6479596]

>>6479148
Camra people are the worst though.

>Welcome to the beer festival, we have twenty best bitters and dull golden ales on cask!

[Anonymous No.6479625]

>>6479113
>craft beer
or as the rest of the world calls it...beer

[Anonymous No.6479648]

>>6479596
>Camera

[Anonymous No.6479689]

>>6479648
Is it bad to search ratings of a beer on my phone before buying it so I don't get ripped off?

[Anonymous No.6479697]

>>6479625
clockwork
>>6479148

[Anonymous No.6479729]

>>6479596
Some of them, well most of them, are old fusspots, the active members anyway, though they did do some good consumer advocacy saving trad breweries when they started.

The point though is that "real ale" is a two word rebuttal to the "...beer" eternally vigilant shitposter. As is "craft keg" another one from the UK market. As is the awful shit they do to beer in Germany (beer and cordial is the #4 "beer style" for off license sales) where they don't but clearly need some product differentiation.

[Anonymous No.6479752]

>>6479729
Don't really understand what you mean with the 'real ale' thing, all it means is cask or bottle conditioned no? A lot of craft beers are bottle conditioned, but I don't see why that process in itself is inherently good; just judge the beer on it's merits when tasting. Most CAMRAesque beers are just boring.

[Anonymous No.6480646]

>>6479689
Apparently so.

[Anonymous No.6480659]

>>6474356
>Originally designed for long sea voyges hence the extra hops to preserve the beer.
>hops preserve the beer.
You have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.6480679]

>>6480659
>You have no idea what you're talking about.
You have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.6480721]

>>6479689
No, but I only do that if I'm going to spend over 9$ for a bottle

[Anonymous No.6480744]

>>6480659
it wasn't to preserve the beer, it was to preserve the taste.

[Anonymous No.6481264]

OUT OF MY WAY FUCKING SHITS

[Anonymous No.6481768]

>>6480659
Hops do act as a preservative to some extent.

[Anonymous No.6481804]

I don't even know much about styles of beer but this one tastes like some ipas I've tried and I really like it

[Anonymous No.6481807]

>>6481804

[Anonymous No.6482294]

>>6468582
This shit is over-hyped. It makes you think you're doing to have God's nectar on your tongue. But its just a really, really good IPA.

>>6468668
See above

[Anonymous No.6482303]

>>6478722
This shit is amazing.

[Anonymous No.6482308]

>>6478815
you lucky bastard

[Anonymous No.6482404]

>not drinking double IPA hops rising

It's like you faggot like pißwaßer

[Anonymous No.6482948]

>>6479752
>Most CAMRAesque beers are just boring.
Most beer that you buy in pubs in the UK are CAMRA approved, they just don't all shout about it

[Anonymous No.6482959]

>>6467945
>2015
>Thinking IPA is some sort of cutting edge beer
What's it like not having a long and rich history ?

[Anonymous No.6482969]

>>6482959
Please point me to where in the OP any claim was made that IPAs are cutting edge.

[Anonymous No.6483188]

>>6469061
right there with you, cuz

[Anonymous No.6483193]

am i the only one who thinks belgian style IPAs taste like wet trash?

[Anonymous No.6483197]

>>6482959
>2015
>2015

[Anonymous No.6483311]

>>6483193
Most aren't that good. Le chouffe has a good one and so does ale asylum. Those are the only memorable ones for me

[Anonymous No.6483351]

>>6482959
This. In most parts of culture the classics go back centuries, even in fashion the big name brands go back to early 1900s. But in beer "culture" everyone prefers the IPA fad, which has terrible pop culture branding and immature recipes.

You guys know IPA isn't the only alternative to macro lager, right?

[Anonymous No.6483420]

>>6483351
>>6482959
Pale ale has been around since at least as early as 1675,by the 1760s brewers were being advised that it was “absolutely necessary” to add extra hops to beer, We know that pale ale, along with porter, brewer unnamed, was being exported to India from at least 1784.
Mostly directly quoted here, pre-empting [le citation needed XD]
https://zythophile.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/ipa-the-executive-summary/
With links to sources.

You guys know that shitposting about things that other people like isn't an alternative to having your own personality, right?

[Anonymous No.6483447]

>>6478765
>fat head's
their pub on east carson street is goat

>tfw haven't been there or to the Church Brew Works or Hofbrauhaus (I know it's nothing fancy I just like the food)

[Anonymous No.6483584]

>>6480659
There's several compounds in hops with preservative effects brer

[Anonymous No.6483591]

>>6483584
incorrect "brer"

[Anonymous No.6483618]

Master race reporting

[Anonymous No.6483624]

>>6483591
Gotta produce them fresh papers.
You are the one making the wacky claim against common wisdom and established literature.

[Anonymous No.6483790]

>>6471735
>dat awful typeface
>awful slogans on wacky angles
Small breweries don't necessarily need to hire creative firms, but some clearly do.

[Anonymous No.6483922]

>no Pliny
ITT: plebs
(Except for carton 077xx guy, you're cool)

[Anonymous No.6484026]

Drink any good beer you enjoy then piss in a glass and add rubbing alcohol. Similar or superior to all IPA's I have ever drank. Pic related. The people that usually like them.

[Anonymous No.6484064]

>>6468186
My Ballast Point rep told me they recently had to scratch almost all their tanks of this stuff because the peppers were all contaminated with crazy bacteria.

[Anonymous No.6484066]

>>6484026

[Anonymous No.6484184]

>>6484066
yeah you're right. I just don't care for all the extra hops. But I guess it's like when I drink gin and tonic and friends say "how can you drink that shit"?. The answer is threefold. 1- I like, 2-I paid for it, 3- 95% of my friends won't drink it, so at byob parties, they leave mine alone. When I bring bourbon, scotch or vodka, it's gone in a heartbeat and I am left drinking the "whatever was on sale beer" or cheap rum and generic cola someone else brought,

[Anonymous No.6485463]

Solid Aussie IPA, not high ABV, not super high IBU, just a good well put together IPA.

[Anonymous No.6485563]

>>6485463
I was just about to post that. I got a free case from a friend and I've really been enjoying them.

[Anonymous No.6486316]

>>6485563
>free case
Fucking bastard.

[Anonymous No.6486325]

>>6486316
times are good my friend