Bitter About Beer
Nov. 21st, 2020 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThe local paper has reviews for some microbrews coming out for the holidays. atara read off a number of the reviews (she skipped over the IPAs) and some of them sound pretty good.
She ignored the IPAs because we're both done with those. It's depressing to go beer shopping and really have to dig to find a decent Dunkel, Saison, Witbier or Stout nestled in among the sea of caustic IPAs.
I mean, I get IPAs. There's this hipster idea that your beer needs to make you suffer a bit while you're drinking it. But they've been done to death. It's like there's a hop war between the microbreweries to see whose beer can kick you the hardest upside the head with each sip.
"Our latest offering is our Slam Meemaw's Face Into The Pavement IPA. Basically, we punch you in the mouth with a fist full of dry hops, and you chew on those while you sip this ale.
IBU? Scales are sus. They're for the weak. Shut up and enjoy the bitter notes."
Don't get me wrong - I don't hate IPAs, and I'll drink one if it's offered, but I won't go out of my way any more to buy one.
We have a rule to always wait until after Thanksgiving to put up our tree.
Unless the tree is still up from the previous Christmas.
The fact that Thanksgiving falls in October makes this a fairly easy rule to follow.
atara read off a number of the reviews (she skipped over the IPAs) and some of them sound pretty good.She ignored the IPAs because we're both done with those. It's depressing to go beer shopping and really have to dig to find a decent Dunkel, Saison, Witbier or Stout nestled in among the sea of caustic IPAs.
I mean, I get IPAs. There's this hipster idea that your beer needs to make you suffer a bit while you're drinking it. But they've been done to death. It's like there's a hop war between the microbreweries to see whose beer can kick you the hardest upside the head with each sip.
"Our latest offering is our Slam Meemaw's Face Into The Pavement IPA. Basically, we punch you in the mouth with a fist full of dry hops, and you chew on those while you sip this ale.
IBU? Scales are sus. They're for the weak. Shut up and enjoy the bitter notes."
Don't get me wrong - I don't hate IPAs, and I'll drink one if it's offered, but I won't go out of my way any more to buy one.
We have a rule to always wait until after Thanksgiving to put up our tree.
Unless the tree is still up from the previous Christmas.
The fact that Thanksgiving falls in October makes this a fairly easy rule to follow.
