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I ended up sat in Bottles & Books on my own on Friday night, hovering around the edge of a conversation about beer that made me feel totally ignorant and out of touch.Bottles & Books is our local craft beer phantasmagorium, with fridges full of cans, a wall of bottles, and a few taps of draught beer served by the third and two-thirds measure.
On Friday, the discussion turned to IPA, and it was when I heard this sentence that I knew I was out of my depth:
Brut IPA died a death fairly quickly, didn’t it? And NEIPA just tastes a bit… old fashioned. It’s all about the Hudson Valley style now.
Hudson Valley? Is that a region? Yes, but it’s also a brewery, as profiled in this article (https://coolhunting.com/food-drink/hudson_valley_brewery/), which has a headline apparently designed to annoy conservative beer geeks who already think brewing has been fatally compromised by the amateur tendency:
Hudson Valley Brewery Makes Beer Based on Instinct, not Instructions
Sour IPA is, I gather, the long and short of it, and sure enough, when Jess and I went to the Left Handed Giant taproom yesterday, there was one on the menu.
We gave up trying to stay on top of trends years ago but there was something intoxicating about all this new information, all the names and details, that made me think… Should we try?
The odd educational eavesdropping session probably wouldn’t do us any harm, at least.
Out of the loop (https://boakandbailey.com/2019/04/out-of-the-loop/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
More... (https://boakandbailey.com/2019/04/out-of-the-loop/)
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I ended up sat in Bottles & Books on my own on Friday night, hovering around the edge of a conversation about beer that made me feel totally ignorant and out of touch.Bottles & Books is our local craft beer phantasmagorium, with fridges full of cans, a wall of bottles, and a few taps of draught beer served by the third and two-thirds measure.
On Friday, the discussion turned to IPA, and it was when I heard this sentence that I knew I was out of my depth:
Brut IPA died a death fairly quickly, didn’t it? And NEIPA just tastes a bit… old fashioned. It’s all about the Hudson Valley style now.
Hudson Valley? Is that a region? Yes, but it’s also a brewery, as profiled in this article (https://coolhunting.com/food-drink/hudson_valley_brewery/), which has a headline apparently designed to annoy conservative beer geeks who already think brewing has been fatally compromised by the amateur tendency:
Hudson Valley Brewery Makes Beer Based on Instinct, not Instructions
Sour IPA is, I gather, the long and short of it, and sure enough, when Jess and I went to the Left Handed Giant taproom yesterday, there was one on the menu.
We gave up trying to stay on top of trends years ago but there was something intoxicating about all this new information, all the names and details, that made me think… Should we try?
The odd educational eavesdropping session probably wouldn’t do us any harm, at least.
Out of the loop (https://boakandbailey.com/2019/04/out-of-the-loop/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
More... (https://boakandbailey.com/2019/04/out-of-the-loop/)