RE: What are you drinking?
May 16, 2014 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2014 at 2:00 pm by Jackalope.)
(May 16, 2014 at 1:41 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 1:34 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I may be one of the few beer geeks who isn't a huge fan of IPA - at least the typical Northwest IPAs, which are usually hop bombs. It's like they're trying to cover up the flavor of the malt. Who would want to do such a thing?
Leaves more IBUs for me!
Don't get me wrong, I love a big hoppy beer - but not so much so that the hops are all that you can taste.
90-100 IBUs in a 7-8% ABV beer is just... wrong. In a 10-14% ABV beer that's got the flavor profile to balance out all that hops - awesome.