This post tastes like crap?

Some form of drinkable liquid compliments food. Always is and always has. Though there are something's that don't go together, like whisky and hot Thai food, but things like this are not the point of this post.

I think this is the first post out of five years worth to have ever emitted to having a point, but it's not like all my other posts didn't have a point, it's just that you have got to look further into it to find one.

Beer is great, over my lifetime I have grown to love it and the beer I have grown to love the most has not been found yet. There are so many out there, and so many I have not tried. I am particularly fond of IPA's.

I am still waiting for the bus, I am going to be very late. Never mind it has arrived, but I will still be very late.

Yeah, so, IPA it is great. It isn't a brand like some of you may think. That would be like calling all Gibson made guitars, Les Pauls, and everyone knows Gibson makes more than just the Les Paul. An IPA is a type of beer, so my analogy wasn't really correct.

It's sunny out. If IPA were a weather pattern it wouldn't be sunny. I would think a sunny drink is crisp and even.

One of the hardest things to do is describing taste. I can not do it well. My vocabulary for describing taste is salty, sweet, bitter, sour, acidic, smokey, herbially maybe other stuff. I have never been taught the art of cooking, if I did I would have a better understanding of the english words we can use to describe the taste a particular food makes without telling it taste like what it is.

One time I was asked, "what does an apple taste like". That is an impossible thing to describe well without saying it taste like an apple, all I could think of it taste sweet and it's crunchy, but that's not a part of its taste. The sweet part is correct, but not a very descriptive description. My chef friends could probably describe the taste of an apple well.

I think I could describe the general taste of IPA well enough for you, but only the general taste since there are so many different IPAs out there. First it is bitter, hoppy (the taste of hops), sometimes slighty citrusy(the taste of citrus), the high ABV imperial IPAs taste sweeter which may cause the taster to feel that the beer is less bitter, yet the imperial IPAs will have a higher bitterness index that escapes my mind for what it's called. That is the best I can do, sweet and bitter, ok. Hoppy, citrusy, are ok for thoughs that know the taste of hops and citrus. If you don't know you are out of luck, go grab yourself some citrus and hops, taste them, and that is the best way to describe it.