Session ipa3/1/2023 ![]() It will be on the shelves right next to plenty of “regular” DIPAs that are the exact same alcoholic strength. It’s no different from a brewery making a 6.5% ABV “session IPA”-which is to say, it makes no sense. That term is just too stupid to be allowed to exist.įirst of all, this “session DIPA” is 8% ABV, which makes it both too high to qualify as “session” anything and still well within the BJCP-stated range for regular ‘ole DIPA. But “session Double IPA”? I can’t let that go. Over time, I’ve cooled on my dislike of that particular term, as “session IPA” settled into a definition that tends to imply a drier, lighter in color, less balanced, more intensely hoppy session beer under 5% ABV. What do you call something like Three Floyd’s Zombie Dust, a “pale ale” that’s 6.2% ABV and hoppier than almost everything out there calling itself an IPA? If that’s still a pale ale, then what differentiates a session IPA? “Isn’t that just a hop-forward pale ale?” I asked, many, many times to people who couldn’t have cared less about how beers were described. Granted, I wasn’t even crazy about the concept of “session IPA” when it first began to arrive a couple of years ago. This is where the out-of-control freight train that is beer nomenclature has taken us-straight to the most confusing, pointless descriptor for a beer that I’ve ever heard. ![]() ![]() Shmaltz Brewing Co., the brewery that produces the familiar line of He’Brew Beers, laid out quite the concept Tuesday afternoon when they announced a new brew via Beer Street Journal: “Wishbone Session Double IPA.”
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