HARPOON IPA CLONE ALL GRAIN PROFESSIONAL
We also included a couple of the highest-scoring beers to not advance from their group as wild cards. Each day we tasted 10 IPAs blind, in carefully selected heats (still secret to all the tasters but myself), selecting the top 2 from each group to advance to a final tasting of 25.Unfortunately, this disqualified a couple potential beers, but a limit had to be set somewhere for the sake of fairness. From 8% onward, you will find most breweries labeling their beers as DIPAs, while a few still call them single IPA, although we also came across beers labeled “DIPA” as low as 7.5%. This was a very tough limit to impose-the official BJCP definition ends at 7.5%, but many commercial examples can be found in the 7.5 to 8% range. “Amber/red IPA” is the darkest beer included, as it hasn’t quite been made into its own style just yet.
This is ”single” IPA only: No DIPA, no session IPA, no black IPA and no IPAs with Belgian yeast strains. The competition was limited to American-style India Pale Ale, roughly as defined by the Beer Judge Certification Program.If you want to know why any specific beer isn’t present (Hill Farmstead? The Alchemist?), then please, by all means consult that post, but know that the answer boils down to: “We probably tried to get it, and they don’t ship beer as a rule or don’t want to participate in tastings and rankings.” Trust us, we’d love to have every IPA on the face of the Earth, but instead we simply had to settle for most of the IPAs on the face of the Earth. It outlines some of the rules, which I’ll go over again below. You may have read our announcement about it last week, which was also an attempt to answer some basic reader questions.
HARPOON IPA CLONE ALL GRAIN FULL
Yes, we tasted as many American IPAs as we could possibly get our hands on, and the final number ended up at a gaudy 116 (Check out the full gallery of every label).
And yet, we went and did it anyway as a tribute to the country’s single most popular and widely consumed craft beer style. Insane to bruise our palates over the course of weeks with a metric ton of hop bitterness. Insane to risk the reputation of our taste buds on the completely blind results. Insane to put in the hours/days/weeks of emailing and phone-calling necessary to acquire the 100-plus beers. Insane to conceive of a 100-plus blind tasting of American IPAs. You can view it here.ĭear Paste readers: We are insane. Please note: We have now conducted a more recent version of this tasting, blind-tasting 247 American IPAs in August, 2016.
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