re: Beer Discussion: Growing tired of NEIPA's

Moving to Boston has spoiled you

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I do recall drinking a juicfer a few months back and it had an almost spicy/peppery taste to it. I don’t know if it aged bad or what,

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That's exactly what i get from Nova Vert and to a small degree, the blood orange DDH envie. It's off putting, for my tastes.

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I just don't understand how you get tired of a style when you can just, you know, not drink it.

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I can still enjoy the style, but also grow weary of it due to the poor quality and mass influx of the style. Is that an impossible feat or something?

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I'm gonna pound NE hops all winter. Drove to Maine weekend before last for hops. Drove to Rhode Island for the same reason Saturday. I ain't mad about it.

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Terrific! If you've read through the thread, you might pick up that the tone of the thread is that the NEIPA style, nowadays, seems to be produced rather lazily, at least IMO. I'll use the locals here, seeing as that is my availability. But SOPRO is pretty bad. It's just hazy with little to no malt flavor. Ghost doesn't have the hop aroma or flavor it used to have. It's still a good beer, but the focus seems to be more on the mouthfeel rather than accentuating those hops. The earlier ghosts were better, IMO. Then there is NOVA Vert, that tastes almost exactly like ghost, until it warms up, then its just spice. I'll give it a couple more weeks to render my final judgement, but it just seems its the same thing over and over. When Opus first came out, i could taste a difference between Opus and ghost. Then Bloom came out, and again, i could taste a difference. The last iteration of bloom/Nova Vert/Ghost were all pretty much the same. If you are going to make different beers, differentiate them. As i stated before though, these are all my perceived tastes. Maybe others are able to pick out something different. I think of the styles in this state, i may prefer Jucifer over the rest just because it's not as biting on the back end.

So i know you don't understand how someone can grow tired of a style, but it happens. I have stopped buying as much of the style nowadays so in essence, i have "just stopped" buying it. And with my own homebrews, i'm altering the base style to fit my tastes.

It's a beer discussion thread, i'm sorry if that offends you.

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But SOPRO is pretty bad. It's just hazy with little to no malt flavor

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I assume you are talking about Devil's Harvest. If you haven't tried Crowd Control in a while or their one-off NEIPAs you are doing yourself an injustice.

Hex Cloud and Paradise Lost from SoPro are money and on both sides of this discussion.

I was the opposite but like both.

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It is the first beer style based around Instagram culture

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Definitely some truth there.