IPA Beer

Yep. As above!

I’m currently experimenting with brewing some rich winter beers.

Fixed Wheel Brewery also a couple of IPA’s No Brakes and Black Carbon, very nice they are too!

but that Yorkshire ipa up there is pretty poor, had a bottle in Harrogate last week.

Yeah, it wasn’t brilliant, I like their Tether Blond Pale Ale, but wasn’t overly impressed with that IPA.

Sierra Nevada Torpedo is rather nice, but at 7.1% ABV it’s not exactly lightweight 😉

I do like the Founders All Day IPA too

I much prefer Torpedo to their regular Pale Ale (which I find very average) so will have to track down some Hop Hunter!

To be honest since getting into craft beers (especially US & Scandinavian), 7% is worryingly normal. I’ve had a lot of exceptional, dangerously drinkable, beers in the 10-15% range! Good thing they come in small bottles (or big bottles to share!)

it’s a very interesting pummel of hops, which then fade as your tastebuds die.

although this is my favourite at the moment

Not sure what I will be sampling exactly, but as I’m camping in Masham for the weekend, it may have to be either Theakstons or Black Sheep, or both (probably both).
We even have a good forecast.

Sometimes life is so hard 😀

If you happen to find yourself in a Greene King pub, they have their own brand “IPA” on tap at the minute.

Avoid at all costs. It’s dire.

Is that the bog standard Greene King “IPA” (which is dire), or another concoction ?

Greene King IPA has been there for ever, they recently revamped the pump clip though.

nearly caught me out in a strange pub a few weeks back

Hey Peterfile, did you say you won a brewing competition earlier…?

If you happen to find yourself in a Greene King pub, they have their own brand “IPA” on tap at the minute.

Avoid at all costs. It’s dire.
Unfortunately a lot of people who work in pubs these days seem to lack the fundamental skills required to store/dispense beer properly so even if GK IPA were any good (to be fair I’d say it was mediocre rather than dire!) the chance of getting a decent pint out of a tap is small. That’s the main reason I stick to bottles these days, unless I know the a fact the pub I’m in can pull a good pint – or it’s straight from the cask (the ideal scenario!)

My favourite IPA (and local to me in Bristol)

^^^^ that is very nice

Is that the bog standard Greene King “IPA” (which is dire), or another concoction?

Bog standard I think. Bog being the operative word.

This one: http://www.greeneking.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=69

they recently revamped the pump clip though.

Sounds about right. It definitely looked new.

Mason’s regular gin is… an acquired taste. It was nice at a RHS show in the sun, ice cold, with tonic and lemon. But I later realised it was horrid. Hope the lavender one is palatable.

Marston’s Old Empire is a rather nice IPA.

Hey Peterfile, did you say you won a brewing competition earlier…?

Well, I won my category, someone else ended up winning the whole thing.

Great British Homebrew Challenge (Thornbridge/Waitrose comp)

My favourite IPA (and local to me in Bristol)

Wiper & True make some lovely beers, that’s a good brewery to have locally!

Well, I won my category, someone else ended up winning the whole thing.

That’s great! what was your brew?

Thanks, Clobber 🙂

It was an East India Porter (Barclay Perkins 1859 style)…a lot like Kernel’s EIP which was where I got the steer from. Evin from Kernel was actually really helpful when I was trying to decipher and transpose the original grain bill.

I’ll dig out the recipe and process at some point over the weekend and stick it up on the brewing thread.

I’ll dig out the recipe and process at some point over the weekend and stick it up on the brewing thread

Please do so, cheers

Well done peterfile, I’d like to see that recipe too.

This is my current favourite

I used to like this stuff as a session ale, although doubt those brought up on ‘craft’ beers would be fans. However, Flowers got bought and vanished almost overnight (why do mega breweries do that?)

I’m a bit over IPA. There seems to be a competition to pack as many hops in a beer as possible and whack your taste buds around until they’re numb. Those type of beers have lost any subtlety.

I’ve been enjoying beer from here this summer: http://www.britt.fr
The Rousse is particularly nice. I haven’t found them in Britain yet but you can buy them in all supermarkets in Brittany, so we brought a few packs back with us from our holidays. A bit more like Belgian beer than anything else.

I’m a bit over IPA

Amen to that…and to the 6+% stuff.

Amen to that…and to the 6+% stuff.

What those two said.

Mini PSA for those in the (hop) Garden of England… Kent Green Hop fortnight kicks off this weekend. Almost 30 different breweries, all producing one (or more) beers made with freshly picked rather than dried hops. Plenty of IPAs and pales ales of course, but some milds, porters & stouts as well. The main beer festival is in Canterbury this weekend – I may have sampled a few including a great black IPA on my way home – but most proper real ale pubs in Kent should have one or two over the next couple of weeks.

I’m a bit over IPA. There seems to be a competition to pack as many hops in a beer as possible and whack your taste buds around until they’re numb. Those type of beers have lost any subtlety.

Drink pale ale then.

For somewhere in the region of 200 years, IPA has differed from traditional pale ales by virtue of its higher alcohol content and hop content. It’s supposed to be like that. In fact, it wouldn’t be an IPA if it wasn’t.

There is also a huge difference between English IPA and American IPA. Have a look at the BJCP style guidelines.

In order to fit the style of an American IPA, the beer must have:

prominent to intense hop aroma…Hop flavor is medium to high…Medium-high to very high hop bitterness

An Imperial IPA (which there are a lot of at the moment) will have:

High to absurdly high hop bitterness

Kent Green Hop fortnight kicks off this weekend.

Drinking this over the weekend. Tonbridge Capel Pale Ale.

Never had a green hop beer before. It’s very good.

That looks like you’re all set for a good Friday!!

Tonight’s beer…

I’m enjoying this at the moment

which is nice – IPA taste (almost) but not too strong.

But if we are after something cycling related, this is absolutely lovely: