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WCDT Strips 3991-3995 (29 April - 3 May 2019)
DSL:
Human-machine relationships are no stranger to country music, IRW. Any subtext interpretation here is arrived at independently of the one in my head.
Tova:
So, I've just tasted a beer that describes itself as "American IPA."
I understand the adverse reaction to IPA here now. Yikes.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Tova on 05 May 2019, 02:32 ---So, I've just tasted a beer that describes itself as "American IPA."
I understand the adverse reaction to IPA here now. Yikes.
--- End quote ---
Ah, yes, “American IPA” is a category all it’s own; there has been a trend in recent years for US microbreweries to compete with each other to brew the hoppiest beer they can and they are now even at the point of advertising the variety and flavour of their hops in favour of the actual beer which is amazing to me. And horrifying since the original IPAs were specifically brewed so that the hops didn’t overpower the beer flavour, since the point was to prevent the beer spoiling on the long trip to India, rather than to create a new flavour, so these guys are effectively adding more and more antiseptic to their product for no other reason than because they can; I seriously worry for the long term health of the persistent imbiber’s gut flora.
cesium133:
One explanation I've heard for American IPAs is that since most U.S. microbreweries came from amateur brewers becoming professional (prior to 1978 it was illegal to home-brew beer), many inexperienced brewers started with IPAs because if they screwed something up in the brewing process they could put so many hops in it that nobody would be able to tell that the beer tasted bad. All they would taste was the hops.
Don't know how true that explanation is, but it makes some sense.
Cornelius:
I don't usually brew IPA, but I went to have a look at my recipe catalogue. American IPA recipes come in at thrice the bitterness of Belgian IPA. The only thing they seem to have in common in experience, is the colour. British IPA seems to be somewhere in the middle between the two.
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