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I live in a tiny town with a surprisingly popular brewery with ~8-10 beers on tap. IPAs. Every. Damn. One. Of. Them. And my local beer shop switched distributor

I live in a tiny town with a surprisingly popular brewery with ~8-10 beers on tap. IPAs. Every. Damn. One. Of. Them. And my local beer shop switched distributors so now I can't get my preferred beer (Prairie Bomb!).

bunderbunder 8y ago
Might as well continue this tangent. I haven't lost nearly enough karma on it yet. :) I think that, if you're going to be a very small brewery that has that many different beers, they basically have to all be IPAs. The high alcohol content will help make the beer more resistant to going stale, and the hoppiness will cover all the flaws and consistency issues that you're very likely to have if your brewmaster is spreading themself that thin. By contrast, if you're making something like a helles lager, any problems you have with finicky things like the mash or the primary fermentation will to have nowhere to hide.
Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
My tongue-in-cheek feeling on IPAs: They're two circlejerks in one. The first is the part of the brewery, where they try to stuff as much hops into the brew as possible to try to get the IBUs into the triple digits. The other is on the part of the drinkers that will drink the nastiest stuff in the world and claim to enjoy it. I bet I could take a scoop out of the bottom of a port-a-potty, put it in a bottle, slap a "HONEY BUCKET SEXTUPLE IPA" label on it, and some IPA fans would take a swig, vomit, and while continuing to dry heave, claim it's the best beer they've ever had. As always, there's a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1534/ https://xkcd.com/1534/ I found I really like Gose. They're sweet, tart, fruity, and very little bitterness. IBU often in the single digits. But even with a good Gose, I can't drink more than two before getting tired of the taste, not like a soft drink like a soda or Gatorade.

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I live in a tiny town with a surprisingly popular brewery with ~8-10 beers on tap. IPAs. Every. Damn. One. Of. Them. And my local beer shop switched distributor

by stevehawk 8y ago

bunderbunder 8y ago
Might as well continue this tangent. I haven't lost nearly enough karma on it yet. :) I think that, if you're going to be a very small brewery that has that many different beers, they basically have to all be IPAs. The high alcohol content will help make the beer more resistant to going stale, and the hoppiness will cover all the flaws and consistency issues that you're very likely to have if your brewmaster is spreading themself that thin. By contrast, if you're making something like a helles lager, any problems you have with finicky things like the mash or the primary fermentation will to have nowhere to hide.
Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
My tongue-in-cheek feeling on IPAs: They're two circlejerks in one. The first is the part of the brewery, where they try to stuff as much hops into the brew as possible to try to get the IBUs into the triple digits. The other is on the part of the drinkers that will drink the nastiest stuff in the world and claim to enjoy it. I bet I could take a scoop out of the bottom of a port-a-potty, put it in a bottle, slap a "HONEY BUCKET SEXTUPLE IPA" label on it, and some IPA fans would take a swig, vomit, and while continuing to dry heave, claim it's the best beer they've ever had. As always, there's a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1534/ https://xkcd.com/1534/ I found I really like Gose. They're sweet, tart, fruity, and very little bitterness. IBU often in the single digits. But even with a good Gose, I can't drink more than two before getting tired of the taste, not like a soft drink like a soda or Gatorade.