It is in NO WAY the "whole reason", and your first quote has a "[citation needed]". Your second quote begins with "a long history". Historically this was more

It is in NO WAY the "whole reason", and your first quote has a "[citation needed]". Your second quote begins with "a long history". Historically this was more important, these days there are much better ways of controlling sanitation, and like I said almost all types of beer have hops in them anyway; IPAs don't see a significant advantage in sanitation. I'm in NY and I've done brewing at scale. IPAs have been a popular style for quite a while now, I don't see what it says about one scene over another.