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[–] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Depends where you live. Areas with a smaller craft brew scene do end up with the "nothing but IPA" problem. But where I live in the PNW there's simply so damn many that even with 50% of them being IPA's, you still get a huge selection of other pilsners, stouts, amber ales, hefenweizens... its pretty nice.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

About 10 years ago it was probably closer to 80% IPAs. It was a big joke here that IPA stands for I Pretend (I'm not an) Alcoholic.

The only reason there is more on the market now is because we all stopped pretending the taste of motor oil with grapefruit gave us a better buzz.

Even now, most breweries will only seem to offer 4 varieties of IPAs, a pilsner/lager and a stout. Maybe an Amber but I feel the Mac & Jack's copycat scene has mostly died out now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I work for a brewery in Portland, and we'd like to make over varieties, but hazys and IPAs are what sell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nailed it.

"Welcome! We have 30 beers on tap."

And dark beers?

"We have this single India pale ale."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Oh, we've got a hoppy red for people who want something dark...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Very true. I thought I hated craft beer because I lived in a small town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, Minnesota. I moved to Minneapolis, and it's craft beer galore. My personal favorite brewery is Fair State

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Live in Seattle and that's not true. 95% of them are IPAs and I just want a good Blonde.....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Same, except I want something like a bock or doppelbock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blondes are not completely uncommon here. They generally have one or something similar on tap at most bars/restaurants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

1 blonde and 47 IPAs that taste like compost. Ambers are good too amd Mack & Jack's African Amber is a good beer to that I can usually find here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

An exaggeration but I do get your point. Bars should probably have maybe two IPAs (one hazy and one standard) and then a host of other beers styles. I'd love to come across more dark lagers personally but those are pretty rare even in places like Chuck's Hop Shop

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Amber Ale is waaaaaay more complex and generally better than blonde ales imo.. Do you like malt forward beers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yarp. Theres lots of good beers out there, but the vast majority are IPAs at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same here in New England, but... The restaurants are IPA heavy, and the beer vendors have lots of IPA.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And some of us are ok with that…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. I like Hazys, IPAs, Stouts, Reds, Amber's, Pils, Browns, Bitters...shit. I think I just like beer. I'm not a fan of lager and wheat beers though.

But when weather calls for it, love a nice hazy, gose, or sour. And like parking through a strong IPA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

True. It does seem like it is more than 50% sometimes. Unforthcoming my taste buds are pretty burnt out from too many IPAs at this point. I used to love a wide range of beers but now basically stick to a hoppy-nonhoppy scale. I used to love Belgians and ambers and porters and all sorts of beers that were on the maltier side. Not really my jam anymore.

[–] ImFresh3x 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My comment isn’t disagreeing with you. Only adding my two cents.

I live in an city that is on the top 10 list for breweries per capita in the world. And it’s all IPAs. Maybe 20% is not. And yeah it’s nice that I have 20 beers to chose from that aren’t ipas when I go to a place with 100 taps. I just hate having to sort though it all.

There should be an IPA menu, and a non ipa menu.

Also: IPAs have a lot of sugar content, and combined with alcohol sugar gives me a shitty buzz and a headache. I don’t know how people can drink more than one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My IPAs and my pilsners finish at the same final gravity. IPAs do not universally have a lot of sugar. It's the same as any other beer of similar alcohol content/starting gravity. If I got rid of the hops, I'd just have a strong English ale.

[–] ImFresh3x 0 points 11 months ago

I believe you. You obviously know more. But it just seems so clear when I drink something crisp and light that I’m not getting that sugar high and headache I associate with strawberry daiquiris. But I get it from IPAs.