IPAs are an acquired taste, but the longer you drink craft beers the more likely you are to acquire it. As your palate becomes more refined, you start to appreciate different hop characteristics. Hop varieties have a wide range of flavors: floral, grassy, piney, citrusy, tropical, skunky, etc. If you’re making a “proper” beer, a nuanced hop schedule is the easiest way to create a complex flavor. IPAs have probably the highest flavor variety of any style, and most of them are pretty good once you can appreciate hops.
Except anything with Simcoe, that stuff tastes like cat piss.
I’ve tried to enjoy IPAs, really. I’m not discounting the role of interesting terpenes and flavonoids here, but the raw in-your-face excessive bitterness of IPA-level hops pushes all that great stuff so far from the stage of my experience, that it’s all left waiting in the lobby to get seated. For me, it’s like someone mixed LaCroix, light beer, and a drop of dish soap in a glass. Every time.
Drink IPA without letting any air into your mouth and keep your tongue somewhat pressed against the roof of your mouth. It seems to block off the taste buds on top of the tongue and lets the beer wash around the sides of the tongue instead. This reduces the in-your-face bitterness and allows the secondary flavors to be noticed. At least that’s how I started appreciating IPAs.
Try some West Coast IPAs. Pacific hops have less of that soapy bitterness with some pleasant tropical fruit notes. Galaxy is a particularly “juicy” variety, common in IPAs with “Space”, “Cosmic”, and other similar words in the name.
Other way around. West coast IPAs tend to be more bitter and resiny. NE IPAs are the hazy ones. Tend to be much fruitier and juicier.
Both can be quite juicy, though you’re right. I should have focused on Pacific hops rather than West Coast styles, since they do feature resiny qualities in their fat hop schedules.
Rather than look at style, look for specific hops: Galaxy, Amarillo, Azaca, etc.
Hop varieties have a wide range of flavors: floral, grassy, piney, citrusy
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I was with you until the last sentence… From that, it’s obvious you have no idea what you’re talking about. /s
Except Sabro for me. Tastes like gin, which I hate.
Stouts and IPA are delicious.
Side note: Stone FFS bring back imperial Stout, you cunts.
“you Bastards” was right there
As a person who likes IPAs and one of the things in the corner this meme is silly.
Would you say most walls like IPAs, or are you more of an outlier?
I’ve never met a wall that has told me they don’t like IPAs
I’ve asked walls near me about their beer preferences, they don’t seem to have anything to say regarding the matter. Or any other matter, for that matter.
I’ve had high ABV beers that actually did taste good, but they were never IPAs.
Fun fact: IPA stands for Indian Pale Ale. They were called that because they were shipped from England to India during the ole’ days (1800s). The purpose was to preserve the beer via it’s long journey to India. They would mellow out during the trip.
Eventually some idiots locally decided the massively hoppy beer tasted good, so it became popular in England as well, but sold as “Pale Ales”. I’ll argue it was never meant for human consumption.
There ARE craft beers that incorporate less hops and I hate that craft beer is now synonymous with hops or IPA. I hate heavy hops, but love hefeweizens, weiss, stouts, brown porters, Belgian dubble/tripels, lambics, wheats, bocks…
I like these things but there are IPAs, peppers, and asses out there that I wouldn’t eat. I understand how it could be confusing though, when sometimes I say “this beer tastes like (bad) ass” or “this IPA is badass” or “eating this asshole is fire” or “this pepper is going to light my asshole on fire”.
Just get your partner to wash their ass! It’s also recommended to get an enema. Well, unless you’re into that kind of thing, just make sure you’re not immunocompromised.
I used up all my taste acquisition credits coming around on coffee and tolerating alcohol at all. I have zero fucks left to give when it comes to training myself to like hops. The bitter little cancerous-asshole-looking motherfuckers may be necessary but I sure as hell don’t want the entire experience shaped by them.
I developed a taste for IPAs purely through Stockholm syndrome
Ah yes, I love iso propyl alcohol
Agreed! It’s really good at removing thermal paste from heat sinks on CPUs and other IC packages.
Unrelated to the OP, India Pale Ales are great-tasting beers
no no the meme is talking about the international phonetics alphabet
Sometimes I want something bitter. If I want hot and bitter, I’ll drink coffee. If I want cold and bitter, I’ll have an IPA. I also like dark chocolate. Must just be something about bitterness that I enjoy.
beer is bitter. IPAs are sour.
I love beer. Fuck IPAs
It’s true love when they fart while you’re eating.
Thank you! IPA sucks ass. Get something tasty like a blonde or triple.
There’s a local 8% one that’s really good.
Pliny or Heady Topper?
Nope, Canadian.
Ah gotcha
