{"id":135054,"date":"2017-10-10T13:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135054"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:53:25","slug":"ipa-no-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/ipa-no-clothes.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The IPA Has No Clothes!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I know that there are folk who actually do like hoppy beers (just as there are people who like practically anything you want to suggest), I have to believe that the current trend of every other beer being sold or on the menu at restaurants being some IPA or other hyper-hopped beer is part of some conspiracy of timid silence, wherein everyone thinks that they <i>must<\/i> love hops in order to seem cool and with it and sophisticated (and, for men, manly). So everyone nods and orders hoppy beers and doesn&#8217;t catch the wince that everyone else makes around the table when they take their first sip.<\/p>\n<p>I am more than ready for the IPA fad to recede into something that will meet the actual demand.<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t Doug Moran]<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/stop-pretending-like-ipas\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/x-hvt4EoNwra7RzBKI1LlhlJ8-rU2_1dXTjCBijoUpLBpTR-Sa1VUQvPW3aQQsFK4ILSqwOoF34KA_2UM0pwlHSQVPp8adOH7rJxPtydF9DIiNjCPONIq6MvXBryLjWvT8hS_sPVLMZzTQkLaSoJ-gWe04GVONg=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/stop-pretending-like-ipas\/\">Stop pretending to like IPAs<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThere\u2019s something I need to say. It\u2019s a tough thing to do and takes bravery, but this has been weighing on my moral compass for far too long. It\u2019s about \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/b9Haqb4XxYp\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I know that there are folk who actually do like hoppy beers (just as there are people who like practically anything you want to suggest), I have to believe that the current trend of every other beer being sold or on the menu at restaurants being some IPA or other hyper-hopped beer is part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/ipa-no-clothes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The IPA Has No Clothes!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,74],"tags":[556,1262],"class_list":["post-135054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-food-drink-wine","tag-beer","tag-hops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/beer-pint-glasses.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18506,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/margieoktoberbierfest.html","url_meta":{"origin":135054,"position":0},"title":"MargieOktoberBierFest!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 12-Sep-10 12:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As noted earlier, we decided to do our own beer get-together, rather than dealing with the overpriced lines of Brew at the Zoo, or the overpriced unavailable tickets of the Great American Beer Festival. 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