IPAs are the merlot of beers.

@1 Meaning they're hard to make well? Or was that some sort of swipe at their pedestrianism?

A friend recently brought me a can of Heady Topper back from Vermont and it was fantastic. It, along with its West Coast rival (compatriot?) Pliny the Younger, are so hard to come by for the average beer fan I say bring on all the new players the market can sustain.

Cloudy beer is an affront to the Lord.

Any discussion of a hazy-cloudy IPA trend that doesn't mention Bellingham's Structures Brewing is woefully incomplete. They have several such beers that easily surpass everything discussed here except maybe.