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This week’s show was IPA focused given that it was recorded on National IPA Day. Shawn and Tony discussed some good approaches to IPAs for homebrewers, including doing SMASH (Single Malt And Single Hop) beers to find your way around some of your favorite hops to find out just what they can do.
National IPA Day is probably the best of the holidays fabricated completely from whole cloth, but it certainly isn’t the only one. Also, it’s hard to care too much about being “tricked” into having an extra beer. Also, also, it was a billion degrees today and what the hell else are you going to drink?
Even when it isn’t National IPA Day, though this dominant style got that way for a reason. We talk a lot about beer flavored beers and the way our perceptions have changed, particularly when it comes to IPAs and what counts as a serious craft beer.
Milkshake IPAs? Brut IPAs?
Apparently, in addition to milkshake IPAs, there also are Brut IPAs in our future. We talk about the characteristics of each on the show, and also about how this supports the larger thesis that IPAs aren’t really in a position to be overthrown anytime soon. It’s kind of the jumping off point for beer.
Malt (and Hop) Shoppe: The Scoop on Milkshake IPAs | CraftBeer.com
Just when you think the IPA obsession has reached its plateau, the milkshake IPA adds another dimension to perhaps the broadest and popular beer style out there. With no set definition of what a milkshake IPA actually is, I’ll define the style as an IPA that introduces lactose into the brewing process, often with the addition of a fruit of some sort.
The Next IPA? There’s no such thing
August 2 is National IPA Day which means people who actually care about IPAs have an excuse to have more than they normally do (as can the rest of us). To be honest, if it wasn’t so hot, I would have had fewer than six pints, but August 2 was brutal. I also had an amber, though #FightThePower.
The discussion about whether IPAs ever can be overthrown by a “new” style is the beer writing equivalent of the June “Hurricane Season” story and the February “Chocolate Is Healthy” story. It’s the kind of thing publishers and readers love but it doesn’t change from year to year. IPA is the lense through which we see beer now. That is really unlikely to change.
The reason there’s no “next IPA” is because so many new and interesting takes on beer are just applied to IPA.
At this point, ask “What is the next bread?” https://t.co/B9Uvg6pyFW
— stateofthebeer (@stateofthebeer) August 2, 2018
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By Tony RussoThis week’s show was IPA focused given that it was recorded on National IPA Day. Shawn and Tony discussed some good approaches to IPAs for homebrewers, including doing SMASH (Single Malt And Single Hop) beers to find your way around some of your favorite hops to find out just what they can do.
National IPA Day is probably the best of the holidays fabricated completely from whole cloth, but it certainly isn’t the only one. Also, it’s hard to care too much about being “tricked” into having an extra beer. Also, also, it was a billion degrees today and what the hell else are you going to drink?
Even when it isn’t National IPA Day, though this dominant style got that way for a reason. We talk a lot about beer flavored beers and the way our perceptions have changed, particularly when it comes to IPAs and what counts as a serious craft beer.
Milkshake IPAs? Brut IPAs?
Apparently, in addition to milkshake IPAs, there also are Brut IPAs in our future. We talk about the characteristics of each on the show, and also about how this supports the larger thesis that IPAs aren’t really in a position to be overthrown anytime soon. It’s kind of the jumping off point for beer.
Malt (and Hop) Shoppe: The Scoop on Milkshake IPAs | CraftBeer.com
Just when you think the IPA obsession has reached its plateau, the milkshake IPA adds another dimension to perhaps the broadest and popular beer style out there. With no set definition of what a milkshake IPA actually is, I’ll define the style as an IPA that introduces lactose into the brewing process, often with the addition of a fruit of some sort.
The Next IPA? There’s no such thing
August 2 is National IPA Day which means people who actually care about IPAs have an excuse to have more than they normally do (as can the rest of us). To be honest, if it wasn’t so hot, I would have had fewer than six pints, but August 2 was brutal. I also had an amber, though #FightThePower.
The discussion about whether IPAs ever can be overthrown by a “new” style is the beer writing equivalent of the June “Hurricane Season” story and the February “Chocolate Is Healthy” story. It’s the kind of thing publishers and readers love but it doesn’t change from year to year. IPA is the lense through which we see beer now. That is really unlikely to change.
The reason there’s no “next IPA” is because so many new and interesting takes on beer are just applied to IPA.
At this point, ask “What is the next bread?” https://t.co/B9Uvg6pyFW
— stateofthebeer (@stateofthebeer) August 2, 2018
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop – What’s the Next IPA?
It’s a question that has turned into a near-annual exercise for brewers and beer enthusiast prognosticators alike: What’s the next India Pale Ale? For years, takes hot and cold have provided plenty of opinion and insight, scattered across the internet from Reddit to the Brewers Association’s we
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