Is there a "best" IPA

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Message after4ever P admin beers 8025 º places 322 º 18:27 Fri 4/17/2015 Yes, there is. If you haven’t had it, you’re totally missing out.
Message after4ever P admin beers 8025 º places 322 º 18:27 Fri 4/17/2015 It’s really limited, though. You probably can’t get it.
Message b3shine P beers 12189 º places 372 º 18:30 Fri 4/17/2015 Originally posted by Oakes Pimpin’ ain’t easy. But you only get one. We’re a spam lite kind of place here. This made me smile.

Message anon84892 beers 3284 º places 21 º 22:08 Fri 4/17/2015 Originally posted by AdamJackson The best IPA is the one that’s made local to you using quality ingredients and a clean yeast strain and put into a clean growler and consumed fresh at 35-45 degrees. Word.
Message DerWeg beers 2175 º places 48 º 22:56 Fri 4/17/2015 ]I was going to post what is the best IPA but by the time I typed the name, it had gone off.
Message Erlangernick beers 6 º places 2 º 06:27 Sat 4/18/2015 Originally posted by AdamJackson Here’s the thing about IPAs. Almost every one on the top 50 IPAs falls off a cliff almost immediately. Back in the day, you could have a 120 day old Founders IPA or SNPA and it would taste pretty damn good. They still hold up for 4 months if kept cold. ... SNPA is an IPA? Or SNCA? Would really like to have the 6.x% one that Deschutes did for the 1993 Oregon Brewers Fest again, that was possibly my first ever IPA (save Anchor Liberty), and can still recall the intensity. Of course, that was a different Deschutes to the new-millennium one.
Message RileyBeer 06:55 Sat 4/18/2015 Originally posted by AdamJackson Here’s the thing about IPAs. Almost every one on the top 50 IPAs falls off a cliff almost immediately. Back in the day, you could have a 120 day old Founders IPA or SNPA and it would taste pretty damn good. They still hold up for 4 months if kept cold. Now, you get a growler filled on a Thursday and it’s shit in 2 weeks. I’m not a pro-brewer but something happened where the best IPAs basically don’t keep. Pliny, 1 week, Heady 10 days, Hill Farmstead stuff, 4 weeks (just based on my drinking preferences). My point is, I’ve seen some shitty ratings for Heady or Hill beers from guys in California that traded for them.. These beers don’t travel well unless they’re kept cold so...... The best IPA is the one that’s made local to you using quality ingredients and a clean yeast strain and put into a clean growler and consumed fresh at 35-45 degrees. I’m just lucky that Susan is easy to get. I’ve noticed this too. It drives me absolutely crazy to think I have to drink my IPA stash in a hurry before it goes bad. Hasn’t it always beeen like this though? I accidently aged a Hopslam once to disastrous results.

Message Buzzardsuds 08:00 Sat 4/18/2015 It’s all subjective, but right now, for me? 3F’s Permanent Funeral
Message cheap P beers 8856 º places 328 º 09:33 Sat 4/18/2015 good ipa and best ipa are oxymorons
Message italarican P beers 1548 º places 115 º 09:45 Sat 4/18/2015 Similar to what Adam said, my "best" IPA is whatever was made by a quality brewer a week or so ago with a simple, clean malt bill and yeast strain, dry as hell, and dry hopped enough that I can smell some tropical fruit.