I like IPAs and I'm secure enough to not be bothered by the mockery my basic brothers and I face online.

IP-AI?

you seem racist

And you don't drink them in the morning.

I don't care what other people drink. In fact I love it when people show me their favorite drinks. Even if I don't like it I enjoy the experience of something new. I get bored very easily.

That being said, I moved to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago and it seems like local breweries only make IPAs. They'll have like eight local or inhouse brews and 7 will be IPAs. I just miss the variety I used to be able to find in other parts of the country. It also seems a little lazy and uncreative on the brewery's side.

I’ve had your beer while in your country. Much respect and all given the history and contributions to beer over all, but after a week…it got boring.

I’m happy to be a peasant with never ending variety of styles and variations within styles without being hamstrung by some unimaginative and restrictive laws.

I never liked beer until I tried it in Germany. I’m here now on vacation, a Radler is probably my preference just for sweet tooth but even the basics go down nicely.

Canadian IPA is dark and unfiltered.

IPAs don't even taste the same, people just think of the (ex: Sierra Nevada) hoppy taste and assume it's all like that.

I don't know if it's like this where you are, but in Scandinavia if you like beer but don't like IPAs, you're shit out of luck for like the last five years at least. It has completely taken over the beer aisles at like 70 % of the offering. As someone who hates that bitter taste with a passion, the fact that it makes the selection of beers that I enjoy so much smaller, means it's akin to how I imagine pumpkin spice taking over in the US during fall, except it isn't just seasonal.

It's not even a seasonal style of beer.

They're both popular, and something that you can just not buy if you don't like them, but people like to complain about because they see the popular thing around, and it bothers them.

Also, pumpkin spice doesn't have to be artificial. It's just the spices found in pumpkin pie. It's usually just cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and ginger.

It can be artificial, but it's like complaining that "apple" is a seasonal artificial flavor.

Not to mention, there's literally pumpkin spice beer.

Well, they couldn't go with Helles because it's actually good.

Oktoberfest beers (Märzens) literally have carmel malts, they're the Starbucks of beers.

3 chouffes later everyone's having a good time ;)

It can be quickly summarized to the line in the article, "marketers have an insatiable appetite for turning human enjoyment into target-based profit". Couple that with the fact that females tend to receive more ridicule for their consumption habits, and you've got this article.

Hasn't aged a day

But Abbey beers are the shit though.

Beer is great

You ok, friend?

Linguists are such basic removed

one-note weed pine cone

Single greatest description of the taste of IPA I've ever read.

I am not an IPA fan for the same reasons. The problem are the Brewers thinking they can just add any old hop into the mix and expect it to taste good. Then you have the consumers freaking out over a 120 IBU DIPA even though, on average, the human pallet is unable to taste anything beyond 70 IBU with an average threshold of a out 4 IBU.

Don't get me wrong, I have had some great IPAs, but the places I've enjoyed them were places that knew what they were doing. Barely any bitterness and all the hop flavor and aromas.

I used to work as a brewer where the owner wouldn't let us make any recipes of our own. All the recipes that he made us use, regardless of the style of beer, had an unforgivable amount of hops to it. The stout? 80 IBU. Fuck you, Dave.

I don't have a refined palette, and I like fairly hoppy beers. It has to have a good flavor to it though. If it's made hoppy for the sake of IBUs, then it's probably bad. Like joke hot sauces are disgusting, but there are some that are delicious but really painful for me to eat, even one bite.

Older IPA hops like cascade are great but only slightly hop heavy with their classic hop flavors. The hops used more recently (I think citra and mosaic?) have great flavors when pushed to high IBUs.

Hops have amazing range. Fuggles smell like dirt. Lemondrop has a strong citrus smell.

About half of beer variety is from hops. Unless your talking about Belgians. Then it's all yeast.

I truly don’t understand why so many people love IPAs

Flavor nuance. I don't like hopsy beer myself, but there's a LOT of different profiles out there. I've even found a few IPAs I liked.

As a person who prefers the complex, bright and earthy flavors from grains and yeast, getting face-fucked at the end of every sip by a one-note weed pine cone is so disappointing.

That I'll agree with. Not a lot of drinkers respect the mashbill anymore.

I'm the opposite. I prefer a pale ale over an IPA, but recently I found hoppy larger and it is great. I find straight larger so tasteless most of the time.

Though if I am only drinking 1 or 2 beers for the night then I would choose a dark beer.

I brew my own and I basically the same spread. Ipa is just the base beer and everything else is a change of pace.

Insert pecker anally

Internally Prolapsed Anus

Inebriated Pale Anglos

Isopropyl alcohol (don't drink it)

Insipid Piss Analogue

Introspective penile assessment

I made ye. Wake up.

Oh, ew! Why would it cost more than a dollar more than Pabst? You're not in the Northwest are you? I assure you there are fantastic ones that are palatable to any palate and don't cost a fortune

Are you a wrestler? Because you just did an excellent half Nelson 😉

The craft beer isle has all sorts of options at my grocery store. About half are IPAs but there's plenty of other options. Maybe you need to try a different store.

I haven't had any opportunity to try a barleywine that wasn't my wash going into a still, so you're right on that one. That said, there's fairly limited profiles to a lot of those types of beers.

IPAs do have a lot of variety, and all you have to do to change it up is use different hops. I don't love IPAs, and I hate that they're all I see in beer aisles, but I also don't shop beer very much so whatever :)

I can take you to my local beer store in suburban Pittsburgh and show you each style you listed, alongside fruit sours, goses, and a pretty incredible variety of ciders. Pittsburgh is a hard drinking town, but I don't think our craft beer scene is leaps and bounds ahead of other similarly-sized cities. What that tells me is that the beer you (used to) want is there if you look and that you're more bitter than the 2x NEIPA that you're railing against.