Craft brewers have broken the IPA
INDIA PALE ALES DOMINATE TODAY’S CRAFT beer landscape, with 10 or so styles laying claim to the name. Now there’s one more: the ‘clear hazy’ IPA. San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing Co pioneered the category, which upset plenty of beer nerds and confused others, with the February 2021 release of Big Gus.
‘IPA is a familiar acronym to beer drinkers, regardless if you’re a novice or a total nerd,’ says Dan Lamonaca, owner of Beer Karma Bottle Shop in Brooklyn, New York. That’s why so many brewers (and their marketing departments) label beers with
