RIP IPA: The Life, and Afterlife, of IPA Styles | VinePair

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Written By Joshua M. Bernstein

Photo: Aaron Bernstein

The IPA is American craft brewing’s version of fast fashion. Soon after new styles or techniques are developed, trendsetters are imitated nationwide and around the globe, as breweries capitalize on the latest craze. Like that Shein shirt, few IPA spinoffs endure, the rest tossed into a trash pile.

For VinePair, I took a look at what styles have endured, what has disappeared, and what’s being brought back from the dead like some sort of not so bitter, very aromatic zombie.

Joshua M. Bernstein
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