IPAs taste horrible

Yes IPAs are insufferable and only good for decently high alcohol percentage. I thought beer tasted fairly bad but IPAs are a joke.

They have become really trendy but I don’t care it either.

They taste, what I would imagine if you collected your lawn clippings after mowing your lawn, threw them in a blender, added a bit of water and thought...hey I'll drink this and think I'm cool and hip.

Some are better than others. And some are not so great. But some are.

So, you are a little girl I take it? You shouldn't drink beer until you are older.

All beer tastes terrible. It is made of grass, is bitter, and is full of gas that makes you belch and fart.

Its relatively low alcohol content means lots of bitter taste, belching, farting, pissing and very bad breath.

By comparison, a non-bubbly wine or mixed drink tastes sweet, isn't gassy, and gets you there quickly without overhydrating. Beer drinkers seem to find this effete, as opposed to their own snorting pig-like behavior.

You're being a bit unfair to IPA in general. The style of beer is having a bit of a moment of popularity right now, but the problem is that they are all hazy IPAs anymore. Bring back the west coast IPA!

Honestly, It is pretty cool that like a quarter of the beer aisle is IPA mix packs. I just wish the hazys made up like 20-30% of the contents instead of like half to two thirds.

Some IPA traditionalists feel that Hazy's aren't even really an IPA, and they have gotten really popular.

I have to admit that if I go into a tavern and I'm not familiar with their selection, I would go for a Hazy rather than a west Coast IPA, and the problem is that a mediocre west Coast IPA can be a really big disappointment, but a mediocre Hazy (lighter, sweeter, frutier) tends to be less objectionable.

So yeah, my fav IPA are west coasters, but Hazy's seem to be a safer bet if you aren't familiar with the choices.

That's funny because I feel the opposite. I have always loved a really good IPA or hazy IPA but anything else is revolting to me. I can't gag down a regular beer for some reason.

I always have some crafty IPAs in the fridge. Here in the Pacific Northwest, I would wager that ten years ago, 90% of our local, craft beer offerings were some kind of "ale." If you didn't like ale, you were out of luck. It must have really shaped my taste when I started drinking beer back in the day. I love an IPA, maybe just me though.

Your post made me laugh. Oink, oink! Pig-like describes like 90% of most people's behavior, not just their beer drinking.

But as I posted before, I love an IPA, partly because one IPA is enough. It is tasty, filling and has enough alcohol (but not too much), so I drink one and am usually done.

I'm with you on that. Before IPAs, I would go for a Hefeweizen. And when i was a lot younger, I could handle stouts, but those days are long gone.

FWIW, a lot of the bottled IPAs are particularly good, and Costco even carries one, for that matter.

I always liked craft beer, but my dad used to refer IPA and such as "dirt beer". Still makes me laugh to this day.

Natty lights for the win when it comes to beer miles.

Bud lights for when it comes to getting sloshed with the boys.

IPA’s when it’s time for trivia night at the bar to look like a mature young adult.

You're not done til you've belched and gone to the toilet

Look at all you Thirsty Thursday's!

Alcohol is stupid.

Thirsty Thursday is what?

Thirsty Thursday is what?

To each their own. However, I’m pretty sure no one mourns the fact that ESBs are a rare sight these days. There was no worse way to start an evening out than having to fake-thank someone for buying a round of beer that inevitably was an ESB and had to be choked down before moving onto something more palatable (like a stout, hefeweizen, Belgian ale, or basically anything without ESB in its name).

Wow, I agree with Bad for once. What kid, having their first taste of beer, ever thought, "This tastes good"? Beer is just nasty. It's an acquired taste that is pushed socially as cool, but it isn't.