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The USA is a melting pot of cultures, so we would often rather steal ideas from other places and bastardize it to make it our own rather than come up with something truly American from scratch.
Quote from: hopsand on July 10, 2013, 06:19:43 amhttp://beer.about.com/od/ale/p/IPAProfile.htmWhoa... Ron Pattinson is stroking out right about now.
Who cares what its called?? If the beer is good, I say drinketheth.
Quote from: dmtaylor on July 10, 2013, 12:22:10 pmThe USA is a melting pot of cultures, so we would often rather steal ideas from other places and bastardize it to make it our own rather than come up with something truly American from scratch. umm...the Germans actually did it too. Sedlmayr essentially stole the pilsner 'idea' from Plzen and then just called it German Pilsner.IIRC, wasn't marzen also bastardized vienna lager?English IPAs aren't being made to export to India anymore either, so why stop with American IPA? English Strong Pale Ale.Who cares what its called?? If the beer is good, I say drinketheth.
From now on, American IPA shall be called... Tim. Or the beer formerly known as AIPA.
Reading Mitch Steele's book and understanding just how much hops the original IPA had in it (6 lbs of hops per bbl, not including dry hops) and seeing how high the original gravity was (often times 1.070+) I realized how much more like our version of IPA is compared to what IPA in England has become. Sure, there are vast differences. Ours use pure cultures, are not aged for months or years, etc. But I think our IPA name is probably more accurate than what you would find in England.