What's your opinion on India Pale Ale?

Question

Is it a favorite of yours, or are there better?

Answer 1

Depends what I'm in the mood to drink.
When I'm in the mood for a good sipping beer with lots of hops, I have an IPA.
When I'm in the mood for a good sipping beer without an overpowering hops taste, I have a stout, or a Scottish ale (If I can readily find one).
If I feel like a cheap buzz with something that tastes smooth, I have malt liquor.
After I cut the grass, I have a can of light beer that was on sale by the 30-pack.

Answer 2

Well hopped India pale ale is a fantastic beer. However, weakly hopped IPA is piss. Sierra Nevada is okay but on the low end of drinkable. Check out the IPA by stone brewing co. It will put hair on your chest.

Answer 3

India Pale Ale is the standard by which you can judge an excellent craft brewery. The history of IPA tells it all: get ale to the troops in India or they will be unhappy: you must keep it from going bad (read: high alcohol content, to ward off bacterial infection) you must hop it well (to ward off bacterial infection, and to balance the sweetness of the malt which you have used to make the higher alcohol levels) and you must make sure it survives the journey in oak casks as it rocks endlessly on the high seas.

India Pale Ale is almost the Napoleon Cognac of beer---I personally think Barley-wine is the ultimate test of a brewery, but few craft breweries attempt it because of storage and aging costs.

IPA unfortunately is difficult to find in Mother England. Beer is taxed on alcohol percentage. I did find a good find a good bottle in a tax-free section of Heathrow once--named "Spitfire."

Many great brews of this style are available in some of the better California,Washington & Oregon craft breweries, and, as usual, probably better on tap. I brewed beer for a time after it became legal in the US, and highly respect the people who can make a good IPA.

Answer 4

India dwindled Ale, abbreviated as IPA, is a various form of beer and is characterised as a clean dwindled ale with a reasonably greater point of alcohol and hops than a common dwindled ale; the hops lend it a various bitterness in aroma and style.

Answer 5

Caledonian IPA here in Edinburgh, is the business, but we have a good choice in UK, tried Sierra Nevada, it's not bad, try Rogue, from Portland,OR, I'm sure they do IPA, or Wicked Petes or Anchor Steam.

Answer 6

Those who like it, like it a lot.

Well, for me it is good. Nice to support it cuz it is a good company, and a pretty good beer. I like light or medium coloured beers, so any like that are good to me. It really depends on what you like, so no one can really say there are better.

I like Molson special dry (a little stronger), Bavarias, Kokanee golds and regulars are good too. Labatt Ice rules when it was in bottles. Just go to parties and get friends to buy all different kinds, and have a beer tasting party. They are fun!

Answer 7

It really depends on what brewery it came from. I've tried some very good ones (Widmer Broken Halo) and others that taste just slightly worse than earwax (don't ask me how I know what earwax tastes like).

Answer 8

I always want to like IPAs more than I actually do. They aren't by any means undrinkable, however, they never really do it for me. It seems to be that most people who do like them are all about them and I'm just not one of those people.

Answer 9

It depends on what I am eating. I like it, but it's not my favorite. Any ale is better than lager though.

Answer 10

It's pretty good. But to be honest it's a little too strong of a taste for me