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.
Whether you call it a black IPA, a Cascadian dark ale, or an India black ale, this hop-forward, dark, now niche beer has been popping back up on the scene over the past year or so, but it is definitely choosing its spots carefully. Once, on the verge of becoming a staple it stirred up controversy from the start over its name, origin, and classification as a distinct style since some argued it was only a hopped-up Porter or Brown Ale for a few years this hoppy black ale could be sampled consistently across the U.S. And, while a few breweries have maintained a version of this delightful confluence of malt and fresh hops, most jumped off of the trend as fast as they got on. That’s OK though because those that do still brew it brew it well.
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