Westbrook hates: Beer Snobs and Hipsters with their stupid goddamn IPAs

[HBnotBlades]

This thread makes me laugh. "You have different tastes than me, so **** you! I'm right!"

I will agree that there are a lot of bad IPA's out there. It's easy to make a beer bitter, tougher to make it properly balanced with a nice hoppy profile. It also doesn't help that the fresh hoppy aromas generally fade a month or two after a beer is bottled, since most of the beers you'll buy at the store are going to be older than that, they will frequently have all of the bitterness with almost none of the great hoppy flavor the beer was intended to contain.

I will say that when I was in college I hated hoppy beers, but loved stouts and porters. Over time I've come to appreciate more hoppy beers and now they're some of my favorites. I even had a Double IPA fermenting in my house right now, right next to a very mild bodied amber ale. I think they'll both be delicious.

[RVAbrendan]

I like pretty much all beer, especially lagers. My favorite IPA is Golden Monkey, though. 3 of them gives you a good buzz.

Just drink whatever, who cares. Isn't is snobby of you to accuse others of being beer snobs?

[Skinz4Life12]

I like most beers including ipas but some of them are too much.

[dfitzo53]

I will go as far as saying I think IPAs have gotten too much of the spotlight lately at the expense of other types of tasty beer, but that's all.

I enjoy the taste, and it always makes me laugh and shake my head inside when someone has a hard time recognizing taste for what it is, which is to say a matter of opinion. Not that I expected much more than semi-focused whining from a "Westbrook36 hates" thread.

[HighPlainsDrifter]

I brew my own beer, love IPA's, and think that most Eagle fans are asses.

[Forehead]

Anyone who knows me knows I'm pretty much a Stout or nothing type of guy, but I've had some IPA's that are alright. I had no idea they were a hipster thing, I've just had them if they were in someone's fridge.

[DieselPwr44]

Be a man......

[Skinsfan1311]

IPAs suck, and I too am getting tired of the trend. A lot of taprooms are buying into the craze which sucks. They are almost always terrible and have stupid names, and yes hipsters can't get enough of them. Blech.

Slide me a Yuengling or a Sam Adams and I'm happy. If I'm trying to be cheap I will even tolerate a light beer like PBR, and that is still a better option than an IPA.

If you really want to be a beer snob then you go German and ask for a Warsteiner or Weinstephaner.

It's all subjective. I love beer, but don't care for wheat beers, rice beers, or weak beers.

I'm not young, not a beer snob, nor am I a hipster, but I like flavorful beers, including some of the hoppy beers. I'll grant that many of them blow, but some of them are very flavorful. I developed a taste for good beer when we lived in Europe in the late 70's and early 80's. We travelled to Germany frequently back then. The best beer was the locally brewed stuff that came in the plain brown bottles.

Warsteiner? My Uncle worked for a distributor and gave me a couple of cases. It ain't that good. Wanna be a beer snob? Order any Belgian beer. That **** is terrible..

[stevemcqueen1]

A beer that typically tastes much worse than regular beer but has a ton more alcohol. And is typically made by a small/family owned brewing company therefore making it "non-mainstream" compared to regular beers that are made by massive corporations. Which leads to hipsters loving IPAs.

You're pretty far off. You're talking about craft brews from microbreweries, not IPAs. There are a ton of craft brew style beers that are mainstream today. You can find beers like Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Saranac, or Magic Hat in any Podunk gas station or Grocery store that sells beer. Sam Adams was kind of a trailblazer in making craft brews mainstream back in the 80's. Big change from the 60s and 70s when Coors was a luxury because you couldn't buy it on the East coast.

An IPA is an India Pale Ale, they've been brewed since the 1800's. It's basically just a lighter colored beer that's especially hoppy. It's a very English and American style.

I'll drink almost any style of beer, and though I usually prefer heavy, malty dark beers, I enjoy enjoy extremely hoppy beers too. The people bagging on IPAs because they can't handle the bitterness of a hoppy beer sound pretty wussy.

I'm not really sure how IPAs got equated with hipsters. That's a totally random ass thing Westbrook made up.

[Yusuf06]

I like pretty much all beer...Just drink whatever, who cares. Isn't is snobby of you to accuse others of being beer snobs?

Ahh I was wondering if anyone else would catch the irony inherent in the OP. Bravo sir. I'll drink most any beer outside of the old school crap like Bud, Black Label, Coors, Schlitz, etc. In fact I see that old school crap served in a lot of the hipster joints nowadays.

I prefer dark beers but a nice IPA is good too. But then that might just be the camel piss pale ale I've been drinking for the past few hours talking. FWIW, the OP was one of the better rants I've seen around this joint...almost up there with the strawberry milk. Though not on board with the right team I think Westbrook is a keeper.

Oh, and what the hell is a lifted truck anyways?

[GoSkins561]

Just brewed my first IPA this afternoon, put in some chinook hops, and cascade up front, finished with the citra hops, i might even dry hop this bad mama jama to add more bitterness. Malts are for wangs who complain about to many hops.

Sipping on a Hoptimum while I type.

[Dan T.]

I'm going to enjoy one of these:



after which, Westbrook, you can take the bottle and either refill it with Schmidts or shove it up your "Desean Jackson."

[afkidd]

I'm not really sure how IPAs got equated with hipsters. That's a totally random ass thing Westbrook made up.

nice try, hipster.

[GoSkins561]

A beer that typically tastes much worse than regular beer but has a ton more alcohol. And is typically made by a small/family owned brewing company therefore making it "non-mainstream" compared to regular beers that are made by massive corporations. Which leads to hipsters loving IPAs.

Two Words Sierra Nevada, big brewery, lots of awesome beers, IMO they currently own the beer market. As a matter of fact, Sierra Nevada Pale might be the king of all beers in The United States.

[skinsfan_1215]

Two Words Sierra Nevada, big brewery, lots of awesome beers, IMO they currently own the beer market. As a matter of fact, Sierra Nevada Pale might be the king of Micro Brews.

I can't stop buying their seasonal Celebration Ale right now. It fills my fridge on a weekly basis. Also, Hoptimum might be the best beer I've ever had.