IPAs and Pale Ales

For reference: 12 oz of Dales has 150 calories and is 6.5%

That seems like the most bang for your buck.

Surprised to learn that Guiness has 160 calories per pint

It should read "fewer calories," not "less calories."

Anyway, it all evens out in the end if you drink for the buzz. You can drink 3 Dale's or 6 Founder's All Day IPAs. It just takes fewer Dale's to catch the same buzz.

Honestly, I have found that going with strong double IPAs around 9%-11% and sipping them like a scotch is the better way to go. If I am somewhere like a cookout or on the beach, I will typically get a mid-road IPA and drink fewer of them.

But to answer your question, do a search for session IPAs and you can find some good ones in your area. Session IPAs made a decent come back this past year and most breweries are going to have at least one.

I don't think session IPA's have that many less calories than Dales Pale Ale. For example, Founders All Day IPA has 147 calories and 4.7% ABV.

I personally love Dales Pale Ale and haven't really found a good session IPA that I like.

I recently had the Abita Big Easy session and liked it. I have enjoyed the seeming explosion of sessions this summer. They are becoming as diverse in flavor as the full and double IPAs. Much easier to have a few sessions through an afternoon or at a picnic than full on IPAs and you are not compromising much if you like the IPA category.

I also like Dale's and it certainly isn't as heavy with a high alcohol content that the IPAs seemed to be heading for a while.

Big Nuts wrote:"less calories."

"Tastes great!"

Drink whatever you like. Run a few more miles to offset if you are a calorie counter. (BTW, That's still a thing?)

I don't think it's low calorie but I'm obsessed with Ballast Point's various Sculpin IPAs at the moment. The grapefruit one is incredible. I'd rather run an extra mile and drink something delicious than try to shave 20 or 30 calories for a lesser beer, but that's just me.

There are none. The only real beer is Hefeweizen Weissbier. Real men drink only real beer.

low cal wrote:

I don't think it's low calorie but I'm obsessed with Ballast Point's various Sculpin IPAs at the moment. The grapefruit one is incredible. I'd rather run an extra mile and drink something delicious than try to shave 20 or 30 calories for a lesser beer, but that's just me.

I think that should be "a fewer beer" rather than "a lesser beer." Aside from that, I agree with you, to a mostly extent.

yawn! wrote:

Surprised to learn that Guiness has 160 calories per pint

Why would you reference the calories in terms of a pint when the OP is talking about bottles? Guinness has 125 calories per bottle. Barely more than a Bud Light.

Something is wrong with my browser. I thought I was at letsrun.com, but instead I keep getting redirected to grammararsehole.org. Damn it.

Zero + Zero wrote:

There are none. The only real beer is Hefeweizen Weissbier. Real men drink only real beer.

IPAs and Pale Ales are for faux hipsters.

Heady Topper

RI red wrote:

Heady Topper

So overhyped. Sierra Nevada Torpedo is just as good IMO, and doesn't require standing in line in VT.

Tree 26 wrote:

Zero + Zero wrote:

There are none. The only real beer is Hefeweizen Weissbier. Real men drink only real beer.

IPAs and Pale Ales are for faux hipsters.

And what does the cool guy drink?

RI red wrote:

Heady Topper

So overhyped. Sierra Nevada Torpedo is just as good IMO, and doesn't require standing in line in VT.[/quote]

Ok, you don't like HT then drive on over to Hill Farmstead.

Take a ride on the IPA HIghway!

Zero + Zero wrote:

The only real beer is Hefeweizen Weissbier. Real men drink only real beer.

A hefeweizen? You mean the beer they serve with a slice of lemon on the glass & that tastes like bubble gum, cloves, & bananas? With only a fair amount of alcohol in a serving?

Real manly there bro. How about a beer that doesn't have fruity additives to sweeten the taste? Something like a Czech or German pilsner with just a touch of bitterness.

RI red wrote:

Ok, you don't like HT then drive on over to Hill Farmstead.

Had to look that up on BA. Wish I'd known about it last year when I visited Stowe. Double Galaxy sounds great. Thanks for the tip!