re: #102 Bass Reeves

I swear, if I don’t agree with you guys on hating pineapple on pizza, I’m definitely on board with hating IPAs. It took me long enough to develop an actual taste for beer before brewers turned it into carbonated pine-sol.

Nah, that was Anchor Spruce Beer. They made that, because apparently the colonists in early America had no hops, and needed SOMETHING to preserve/flavor the beer, so they used spruce buds among other things. I bought two bottles. Made it 3 swallows into the first bottle. Poured it out.

This gave me new respect for what our ancestors were willing to go through for beer.

But back to IPAs, it’s starting to feel like the XTREME!! Sports version of brewing. It’s no longer enough to make good beer in a variety of styles. Now you gotta have 3 or 4 more and more XTREME!!! IPAs, and maybe - MAYBE! - a pale ale.

I suspect the brewers are getting tired of this fashion, too, but people keep buying them.