India pale ales. Maybe you’re tired of hearing about them. To today’s world of beer, they can seem like stars to the galaxy or grains of sand to the beach. But, this does not bother the hophead as there is no apparent end to their craving for beers infused with this not quite ancient ingredient known as Humulus lupulus, or hops.
Even if most of the new IPAs flooding the market seldom reach anything resembling the glimmer of a constellation, over the past few weeks beer companies have been dropping enough outstanding IPAs on the market to make hopheads of every inclination rejoice.