Context: I was raised in Chico during the rise of Sierra Nevada. I was drinking hoppy beer before it was a thing. I burnt out on the whole thing around 2010. Went to Germany and fell in love with their beer. So drinkable. I’m just really impressed.
It very much depends on how you apply the hops. New England style IPAs aren’t bitter at all (very low IBU comparable to some pilsners in fact), even though it is probably the type of beer which has the most hops added. The hops are added in the form of aroma hops, which usually provides a citrus flavour instead of the bitterness of bittering hops.
Seems like OP only goes to shitty bars that only have bud light and lagunitas IPA on tab. Get a Hop Passport and explore the local scene www.hoppassport.com (assuming you are in the US)
@mexicancartel It does what it is supposed to do and it does it well. If you care more about rounded corners than about standards compliance and interoperability, then it might not be for you. But the author is working on an visual upgrade for people like you also.
I just tried out and its a very consistent application. It looks slightly better than from the screenshots. Still yeah looks matter a lot and that screenshots in fdroid made me not to try it
Looking for something more integrated with things like Mastodon or Lemmy or Pixelfed, it’s too hard of a sell for people to download another messager otherwise.
Also, Matrix is really complicated… I still don’t quite have it working right.
Matrix is not complicated, it’s Element’s UX. It’s going in good direction, remember than on WhatsApp people are factory resetting their phones to move chats between Android and iPhone. You can do clickable Matrix link in bio and there are instances that offer Fediverse+Matrix combo accounts.
I think that’s kinda the thing about this post. Alot of people don’t have a place to find these things at all. Though I know a few, just not super convenient for me. I feeling like I am ALWAYS at the grocery store for something, though.
I like IPA and there’s like 3-4 very distinct sort of IPAs. There’s a imperial IPA from a local craft around me that’s almost caramel dark and people might not even call an IPA on a blind taste test.
But, I must agree it’s kinda silly theres 2-3 IPAs in the craft section for every other type most places. I tend to buy the IPAs when I buy craft beer (outside of making a trip to the really big selection places) because the only other craft options are like “bland blonde #82 from probably owned by Budweiser brewery” or “ale that tastes like spoiled Newcastle”. Sometimes they have dales pale ale in a few different labels for more money.
Craft beer has just become a shit show at retailers for me. No one carries any of the cans I like anymore. I have to go far out of my way to buy anything I actually want. Fortunately I live 15ish minutes from a downtown with a half dozen good breweries that have 10+ beers on tap year round. I’m not a bar/brewery person and I wish I could get cans to drink at home still though.
I just like beer, don’t really care about trends. I also live in the deep south. Like it’s 110 somewhat regularly this time of year deep south. So a good 6-8 months of the year I’m not normally looking to drink anything dark and heavy. Most IPA is drinkable when I’m sweating my pits out in the summer.
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