In the hierarchy of beer, the IPA is (and probably will forever be) king. But in recent years, variations on the iconic hop-fueled, subtly (sometimes overtly) bitter beer have grown in popularity. The ...

Over the past couple of decades, the India pale ale, or IPA, has emerged as the de facto signature beer of the American craft beer revolution. Nearly every brewery makes one, and as often is the case ...

Some beer trends build slowly, starting as a good idea brewed by a few specialists before spreading locally, creeping into nationwide prominence and then total ubiquity, as hazy IPAs have done in ...

SYRACUSE, NY -- The hottest trend in craft brewing in recent years has been the New England-style IPA -- hazy, dank and juicy. That was then. This year, the hot newcomer may be Brut IPA-- crisp, light ...

Despite the near infinite supply of craft beers and microbreweries around the country, a number of beer styles are not the ...

Brut IPAs burst onto the craft beer scene early in 2018, inspiring breweries across the country to pour their own versions of the emerging style. Light in color and very drinkable, the concept was ...

How does any trend start? Because brewing beer is both an art and a science, the Brut IPA, the latest on-trend style many of your favorite brewers are making, is still evolving. “I think a brewer in ...

Do you think you’ve seen it all when it comes to IPAs? Have the nation’s creative brewers finally run out of new ideas for new styles of beer? If you think that, you might have underestimated them.

It’s rare when we can trace a new type of beer to the moment of inception, but one of IPA’s newest sub-styles may be the exception. Kim Sturdavant, brewmaster at San Francisco’s Social Kitchen and ...

Given the level of angst they inspire, hazy, juicy IPAs, and psychedelic-colored, smoothie-ish fruited sours are like the pumpkin spice lattes of the beer world. You love them or you hate them. You ...

Brut IPA, whose most notable quality to date is its dryness, has a long way to go to catch the trendy hazy/juicy (aka New England style) IPAs being guzzled as fast as they're brewed. Though to be fair ...

Editor’s note: This is the first beer column from James Patrick, who has covered the industry for years. The column will appear every other week. The world needs more IPAs. Or put another way, the ...