Is Black IPA a fad?

[mr hoppy]

I've not looked into it in a great deal of detail myself but I'd understood that the German Beer Institute was primarily driven by Horst Dornbusch and that the likes of Ron Pattinson have, at a minimum, thrown some of what he has to say into question.

Take this article about the Tmavý Ležák, at the U Fleku brewery in Prague - for some bizzare reason Tmavý Ležák is rechristened Bohemian Dunkel() Great recipe though!

Talking of which, thought this was pretty interesting in this context of the usage of the term "weissbier": Broyhan, a (northern) German beer, described as a weissbier despite not necessarily containing any wheat:

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.ie/2010/07/broyhan-recipe.html

Might actually try brewing this once I get my hands on the Vintage Beers book, a gose with spices instead of salt, yay!

[pob]

Ah beer style naming. Bless.

While we are at it, anyone have a recipe for a Pale Stout ?

http://www.durhambrewery.co.uk/

http://broadfordbrewer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/the-durham-brewery-white-stout/

"White Stout is the ultimate beer in our "White Range". While the word "stout" has come to mean a dark beer, the original meaning was strong and true. Before the porter brewers commandeered the word to mean a stout, or strong, porter it referred to any strong beer.

We have rehabilitated and improved the genre. White Stout is a very pale, full bodied, strong beer. American columbus hops are used throughout to give massive floral and resinous character. A pale body supports perfumy, spicy hop flavours and aromas. Intense bitterness is balanced by forest fruits and mango.

At a strength of 7.2% this is a true stout. Indeed, few modern stouts of any colour are true to the word for strong."

[Ciderhead]

Black Ipa's, White Stout, it will be pink next...
http://www.silly-beer.com/p_pink_en.htm

[mr hoppy]

Black Ipa's, White Stout, it will be pink next...
http://www.silly-beer.com/p_pink_en.htm

And people say there's no such thing as a bad Belgian beer.

[Pheeel]

I'm still living in Seattle and I'm not seeing as many Black IPAs as I did last year. The trend here is primarily imperials, porters and sours (eek).

On Friday I had two beers on the trot that were some of the worst I've had in almost ten years of living here. One was an amber that was insanely hoppy (I like hoppy beers but this was poor) and completely unbalanced. The other was a brown that suffered from pretty much the same fate + tannins.

There's a gold rush of breweries opening around here but unfortunately not everyone has the skills and bad beers are starting to appear...

[Ciderhead]

Ahaa! so shit brewers cover lovely malts with shed loads of hops, who knew!