IPA

Bugsyboy1

Anyone able to advise me on awhere I might be able to taste Indian pale Ale. Is there a brand I could taste? Where might I get that?
Cheers

BeerNut

Where do you live?

Bugsyboy1

Shankill South Dublin

oblivious

Bugsyboy1 wrote: »

Shankill South Dublin

http://www.hollandsofbray.com/

BeerNut

Any of the good off licences in greater Dublin should be able to sort you out, then: Holland's, Redmond's of Ranelagh, Deveney's Dundrum, DrinkStore on Manor Street etc.

There are a few really good American ones knocking around at the moment: Sierra Nevada Torpedo and Victory Hop Devil for the full-on experience; Odell IPA or Goose Island IPA for something more gentle. Of the English variety, St Austell Proper Job is currently available, I think, and is one of the better ones; it's also sold in Marks & Spencer as their own-brand Cornish IPA. Meantime do a strong one in a large bottle that's supposedly based on the 19th century London IPA recipes.

And for an Irish take on the style, try O'Hara's IPA. You'll get it in the off licences and it's on draught in a few pubs around town including The Queen's in Dalkey, Bowe's, Doyle's and Against the Grain.

Krusty_Clown

Bugsyboy1 wrote: »

Shankill South Dublin

Brady's off-license in Shankill sells both of Brew-dog's IPAs. Specifically Punk IPA (€2.29/bottle or 5 for €10) and Hardcore IPA around €3.50 if memory serves correctly. But yes, Hollands of Bray is the place to go for a wide selection of off-sales. I also understand that they will shortly (if they do not already) have Galway Hooker on draught in the pub, which is an Irish Pale Ale.

rubadub

The Porterhouse in bray might have some too.

n97 mini

The defintion of IPA is fairly broad.

Roughly speaking it falls into two categories, English (English hops, low to moderate carbonation) and American (US hops, typically Cascade, and high carbonation).

You're probably looking for American style, of which Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a great example and widely available.

oblivious

n97 mini wrote: »

You're probably looking for American style, of which Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a great example and widely available.

The definition is not that wide, its a pale ale, American pale ale

SN Torpedo is their IPA

BeerNut

oblivious wrote: »

SN Torpedo is their IPA

I was about to get persnickety and point out that Sierra Nevada IPA is their IPA



But it looks like it's been discontinued, leaving Torpedo in charge of the style.

Unless you can get hold of some Hoptimum

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

But it looks like it's been discontinued, leaving Torpedo in charge of the style.

Yea like the way they have discontinued the America wheat in favor of the Hefe

Blisterman

Yeah, word of advice though, many English beers such as Greene King IPA call themselves this without actually being hoppy or strong enough, to fit the historic definition of an IPA, and are closer to bitters.

A real IPA will be close to 5% or above. Brewdog's would fit this definition.

BeerNut

Blisterman wrote: »

many English beers such as Greene King IPA call themselves this without actually being hoppy or strong enough, to fit the historic definition of an IPA, and are closer to bitters.

A real IPA will be close to 5% or above.

Not that this was inevitable or anything...

IPAs of the Greene King variety have been around since at least the 1930s. If you're saying that it's not an IPA because it's not like 19th century IPA then there are an awful lot of stouts and porters that aren't really stouts and porters either. Oddly, only IPA gets singled out for this not-true-to-style treatment.

Happy International IPA Day, everyone. Here are some important things about IPA that aren't true.

Blisterman

Well the OP did ask specifically to try an India Pale Ale.

Greene King IPA and the likes are bitters in everything but name.

BeerNut

Blisterman wrote: »

Greene King IPA and the likes are bitters in everything but name.

In name, in reality, they are IPAs. Looking at it historically, bitter is just a type of IPA.

n97 mini

oblivious wrote: »

The definition is not that wide, its a pale ale, American pale ale

You are right SNPA is not technically an IPA but it is an APA.

To be true to the style an IPA should be strong an hoppy. Co-incidentally SNPA meets these requirements.

Is an APA not an modern American take on the classic IPA?

At the same time the modern British take on the classic IPA can be like Blisterman says: typically weak, fairly unhoppy, and also fairly flat.