The 12 Most Important IPAs of the 21st Century So Far

At the turn of this century, as the 2000s began, IPA was not an initialism your average person would have known. Very few bars served IPAs. Very few stores stocked them. Very few breweries even made them. Yes, a few pioneers of the (re)birth of the style had already come in the late ’90s, in the form of beers like Lagunitas IPA (1995) and Stone IPA (1997), but for the most part, breweries that still had IPAs had India Pale Ales as defined by the English more than a century before. The article The 12 Most Important IPAs of the 21st Century So Far appeared first on VinePair.