On 2014-06-28 4:55 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 6/28/2014 12:00 PM, sf wrote:
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>> My son was drinking a double IPA last night. I tasted it and decided
>> it would make a very good tasting beer bread. He says it's "hoppy",
>> which is something I don't normally like - but it shouted bread to me.
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> Hops is what makes an IPA an IPA. Made shipping ale to India viable
> back many years ago.


From what I understand, there is nothing about that ale that makes it
more suitable than others for shipping. There was a strong market for a
particular brewery's hoppy ale in India.

My son used to run a microbrewery and he told me that IPA is the beer of
choice for most of the brewers that he had worked with. Most of them
did their own home brews and liked to do IPAs. However, hoppy does not
always make a good IPA because when w batch of beer isn't working out
some brewers will add extra hops and try to pass it off as an IPA.

IPA tends not to be among the big sellers in the beer business. Most
beer drinkers are easily swayed by advertising and tend to drink the
mass produced stuff. Their rating on beers tends to be based on how much
they can drink without getting bloated or drinking. IPA, being a very
full flavoured and substantial is the sort of beer I have when I am only
having one.