Sipping it revealed honeydew melon, ripe peaches, mango, grapefruit, and lightly dank, resinous pine. The nose is surprisingly light with some yeasty bread, orange peel, mango, lime, and pine. Part 1: New England-Style IPA Blind Tasting Taste #1 Christopher Osburn Keep scrolling to see if your favorite beer made the list and where it landed. I used the blind taste test to rank them. So I grabbed ten of the highest-rated and most well-known New England-style IPAs on the market and decided to blindly nose and taste them. The highest-rated, still juicy, but well-balanced New England-style IPAs. Not simply juice bombs with no substance. But if I’m going to drink hazy IPAs, I’m going to drink the best of the best. Why is it so popular? Well, it’s a great beer for warm-weather drinking. Now it seems like every brewery from Montpelier to Montecito brews its own version of this hazy, juicy, citrus, and tropical fruit-filled beer. But while beer fans flocked to the small New England brewery to get this now iconic beer, the style didn’t really gain national exposure for another decade. The New England-style IPA was first invented in 2004 when famed brewer John Kimmich brewed Heady Topper at Vermont’s The Alchemist. While the classic IPA is floral, piney, and known for its bitter (almost aggressively so) hop finish, the New England-style is known for its juicy, tropical fruit flavors with a ton of aromatic hops but little to no bitterness. If you’re new to beer, you might not know that there is a ridiculously large, almost Grand Canyon-sized, difference between a classic West Coast IPA and the more recent phenomenon, the New England-style IPA.
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