"Yeah, I deleted it" Topic

I deleted the garbage post I made in the ultra modern forum.

It was junk, I was angry and I am going to go get trashed at a wedding today instead.

(IPA's are still garbage beer though, no remorse there)

I don't know, the traditional IPA is a sound beer, perhaps the hipster brewing tendency have gone a bit far?

It's the chemical lagers that need to be rooted out IMHO.

IPAs have gotten out of hand with the "craft beer" clowns who think beer should taste like you are licking a grapefruit rind.
These hopheads are like the clowns who eat the hottest peppers imaginable.
All subtlety is lost. All overwhelming with one flavor does is prove it can be done.

Have fun at the wedding.

Well said, Winston!

In the early 80's, Scottish and Newcastle's IPA (red label with the Laughing Cavalier on it) was my introduction to beer. Wonderful stuff!

Snog a bridesmaid, Weasel!

Winston's right about IPA.

Idiotic Person's Alcohol

No snogging but the kid made some new friends so all good.

The IPA thing is like some people make chili.

If the only thing you can taste is the burn, why put all the other ingredients in?

The three types of beer are stout, honey mead, and all the other crap. I'll drink the other crap and enjoy it as well. But compared to the other two, it's still all that other crap.

These hopheads are like the clowns who eat the hottest peppers imaginable.

I eat and grow savina, ghost, and scorpion peppers and enjoy the robustness of the different flavors.

I agree that you can overdo it. Buffalo Wild Wings used to have a hottest pepper sauce that I detested. It wasn't "too hot", it was just a nasty blend of too many things that tasted like ash. I've seen desserts like that, too … too many different things.

Excuse me.
IPA?
India Pale Ale?
I hope IPA means something else in the US or I'm going to have to come over there and sort you lot out.
IPA is probably the best beer ever made.
There are some 'sources' (Wikipedia) that claim IPA is a lowered alcohol beer.
This is utter rubbish.
IPA is generally higher abv than standard brewed bitter to survive the journey to India.
I note the Guardian talks some rubbish about IPA being 'reintroduced' from the USA. This is typical Commie tosh and ignores the strong hoppy IPAs that have been around in the UK for years if you knew what to ask for.
I was raised on, for example, Worthington White Shield (a bottle conditioned IPA), Marston's IPA and Deuchar's IPA.
After five pints of any of them I will happily fight the lot of you (and then love you all and sing you all to sleep).
Hope the wedding went well!

I count more than three:

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They're all good, when they're made well.

An unbalanced or poorly made beer is garbage beer, whether it's an IPA or not. It seems like every new brewery wants to make an IPA, probably because they think it's a popular style or that it's difficult to get it wrong, and they're wrong on both counts.

Apparently, you need the gene that controls how you taste 'bitter'.

I don't have it. So IPA does not float my beer boat.

On this side of the pond the craft brewers think IPA is a license to make an overpowering hop bomb. Like Winston said, they taste like licking a grapefruit rind. All the more power to them. Let those idiot "beer" snobs have their pleasure. There are other fine crafted beers without seemingly trying to sip a beer through a mouthful of hops pellets.

Reminds me of the oak craze for California cabs in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. Then a lot of wine makers grew up, and for those who didn't, the market took care of the remainder

I don't drink beer so if all the beer factories burn down I will survive. I hope you hops fiends have stocked up just in case though, as there is nothing worse than a bunch of mopey hop heads.

+1 Bashytubits.

I rather enjoy IPA's but not the high alcohol content that generally goes with them. My take is that many of the craft brewers are trying in an adolescent way to brew the highest possible alcohol content beers and are using IPA's as a vehicle to do it.

And stay away from the pretty bridesmaids … they are nothing but trouble … !

No snogging took place but the kid made friends so it wasn't half bad.

I almost avoided looking like a doofus too. The way my wife explained it, made it sound like we were just going to the reception and to "wear whatever you normally do".

Well, that means heavy metal shirt and shorts but I decide to wear a nice shirt for a change.

Turns out, we were actually going to the church proper and THEN the reception, so I narrowly avoided looking like a jerk.

Almost all American IPAs are absolutely awful to me since also I do not have the bitter loving taste bud gene. I have had some English and Belgian IPAs that were quite tasty-- I tend to like the flavor of hops when it isn't bitch slapping me in the mouth. 8)=

Note: I am a member of the most excellent Untapp'd app so I try any and all beers and rate them accordingly. So far in the last 2 years I have tried over 2000 unique brews!

……yeah….licking a grapefruit rind!

The very taste I'm trying to purge my tastebuds from at this very moment. My mistake. The perils of purchasing the seasonal assortment 12 pack. Yuck!

I hope IPA means something else in the US

Most of our breweries over here call it "IPA" because they aren't allowed to call it "Cold Urine".

In full agreement with Winston – I have had too many "Craft Beer" IPAs that tasted like liquid hops – also way too carbonated.

I'm also in Winston's camp. Too many "craft" IPAs flooding the market (are these just easier to make, or what? Trendy?). I don't much care for IPA at the best of times but most of what I taste of the newcomers is simply swill.

Yay, let's all crab about beer!! I also am bored by pilsners and lagers. Give me ale, porter, stout, or anything made in a Belgian abbey.

They're also making some decent meads again at last, and of course, proper (hard) cider and scrumpy.

I'm disappointed a online discussion of beer and no doghouseing.

Anyway the best beer is imperial stout for fall and winter often with a smokey single malt.

During summer witbeir

There's been some dang nice hard ciders coming out recently, actually.

I guess it's a bit of a trendy thing but I dig. Though drinking too much cider gives me a killer headache.