/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16069906
I was with you until the last part...

Are ipa's still a thing? I thought the fad has been going down in the past few years. Sours have been trending for the past 3-4 years and are more popular than ipa's

>>16069972
Why do these faggots like things that taste bad? Spurs are about as bad as the hops shit.

>>16069972
No. No they're not. Ipas still dominate

>>16069972
Yes you're correct but here in 4chan(nel) the fags are still stuck in a time loop since they never leave the house. Just like these two coping seething manlets still wanting to bait others with their soyboi memes
>>16070041
>>16070069

>>16070041
A fruity sour is the absolute tits on a hot summer day. Go outside, do some heavy yardwork, and down a sour or a nice hefe. Absolutely sublime.

They're easy to make because you just put a bunch of hops into your failed brew and charge extra, don't need to worry about flavor because soys will jizz over anything that is super hoppy

>>16070097
If you honestly think sours are more popular than ipas, you're wilfully ignorant to the current wave of hazy ipas.

>>16070162
this

>>16069906
>>16069906
I used to buy into the right-wing meme that IPAs make you gay and taste like a bag of pennies. But Sierra Nevada is the only American beer that I like.

Whoe else Weißbier masterrace here?

>>16070299
Love wheat beers it’s the only kind of beer that gives me that refreshing feeling everyone’s always going on about.

>>16070186
Sours are pretty awesome though, much better than IPA hop bomb. I like Belgian sour beer like kriekenbier or geuze.

>>16070299
I like weissbier, it's my favorite style of beer behind Belgian tripels. Schneider Weisse is my favorite.

>>16069906
Hops are highly estrogenic. It’s a NWO plot to kill the sex drives of men and control the population

>>16069972
Sours are more popular than they used to be but definitely not more popular than IPA.

>>16070287
An IPA can be good if it’s balanced. A lot are way to heavy on the malt and overly bitter. Sierra Nevada makes a pretty balanced and drinkable IPA. Most meme micro breweries make shitty hop soup and charge an arm and a leg for it.

>>16070281
That explains why they're made, not why they're popular. As to why they're popular, it's just dumb marketing and dumb trends, just like the birth of the "microbrew" trend in the early 90s when every fag beer poser in America drank Pete's Wicked Ale or some sort of "nutty brown". Every time I'm at the liquor store, I ask the guy in front of me, who is invariably buying an "IPA" (although no such thing exists any longer, as no wooden British East India ships are cask-conditioning ale anymore), if he knows what makes a pale ale pale, and he never does (it's pale malt). It's just posers and pseuds who don't know anything about beer-brewing acting all pretentious.

You know, if you actually like the taste, by all means, drink it, but its popularity is an admixture of faux-elitist gatekeeping and consumer ignorance, pure and simple. It's the same industrial beer product as anything else and pretending to have this very firm preference about a particular logo is like pretending to prefer one boxed wine over another.

>>16070299
>>16070586
Based and wheatpilled.

>>16069906
It’s an arms race to produce the least palatable beer.

>>16070711
really reading too far into people buying beer

>>16071079
Nope. Everything any person does, and this goes triple for Americans, who live in the most propagandized and commercialized society in human history, is linked to what he thinks it'll do for his image.

>>16070652
I don't mind them. Kettle sours are not my thing usually, but the fuckin Flanders shit is pretty good. Or Flemish I don't recall. I still like ipas, especially a good rye ipa

>>16071095
Jesus dude you've got some issues to work out, you're projecting that shit all the way to the moon

>>16069906

Soy bois and the craft beer scene seen as a way to be manly just by consooming in the Pacific NW area.

>>16071241
No one thinks they're manly for drinking craft beer. It just tastes good

>>16069906
There's good and bad in every style but there's no bad style of beer.

Everything is good when you're in the mood for it. Right now I'm drinking Jai Alai after drinking hefeweizen and pilsners for a few weeks, and it's delicious. If I'm not in the mood for it though, I'd prefer something lighter with more grain flavor.

cascade hops

It's just contrarianism. Current batch of brewers grew up on completely flavorless light beer, stumbled across a small batch IPA that actually had flavor to it, and having been chasing that high of discovery ever since.

>>16069906
In the old days American beers were like sex in a canoe, fucking close to water. At least you have some choice these days.

>>16069906
The American beer industry took like fifty years to even start recovering from prohibition,in the meantime it was almost entirely pisswater like budweiser.Anything with more flavor was primed to explode then brewers realized they could just throw in a pile of hops.

The market was stagnant enough anything different would sell like hotcakes and ipas were the easiest way to do it.

>>16073193
You make it sound like IPAs were invented in America. The British made IPAs in order to transport beer over long distances without losing flavor. Americans ran with the idea, experimented, and perfected it. They have nothing to do with prohibition.

Tfw you used to hate piss beer but now it's the only thing that gives you enjoyment from drinking beer

>>16069906
Like 20 something years ago? I wish we could go back to the classic West Coast style IPAs. Everything now is hazy/juicy garbage. It's fine if you don't like hop forward stuff, but it was popular for a reason - in spite of many upstart breweries doing it poorly. I enjoy a pint of ale when I'm in the UK, but that's more a difference in drinking culture rather than them having better beer; bong beer is just about as bad as everything else bongs do /ck/ related.

>>16070162
This is about as wrong and misinformed as you can get. I'd call it bait, but anon is probably so uninformed about beer that he probably just associates hops with trannies or something else just as absurd and off-topic.