Ovid wrote:
Gotta disagree on this one. IPA in the states is *awful*. I actually like it over here. Plus, US beers (even the quality ones) are often very fizzy. A bit too much for my taste. I know the microbreweries in Portland are fantastic, but they generally don't ship over here.
I absolutely loved the (local) IPA in the Rose and Crown in Palo Alto, mainly because it was an actual IPA (pale and strong/hoppy enough to survive shipping to India or indeed Pluto) rather than the renamed lightish session beers one tends to get over here (Greene King and Caledonian, I'm looking at you).
Meantime do an IPA which is bloody spectacular, mind you, so it's not as if we can't get it right when we try.
S
