IPAs are an acquired taste, but the longer you drink craft beers the more likely you are to acquire it. As your palate becomes more refined, you start to appreciate different hop characteristics. Hop varieties have a wide range of flavors: floral, grassy, piney, citrusy, tropical, skunky, etc. If you're making a "proper" beer, a nuanced hop schedule is the easiest way to create a complex flavor. IPAs have probably the highest flavor variety of any style, and most of them are pretty good once you can appreciate hops.

Except anything with Simcoe, that stuff tastes like cat piss.

Stouts and IPA are delicious.

Side note: Stone FFS bring back imperial Stout, you cunts.

As a person who likes IPAs and one of the things in the corner this meme is silly.

I've had high ABV beers that actually did taste good, but they were never IPAs.

Fun fact: IPA stands for Indian Pale Ale. They were called that because they were shipped from England to India during the ole' days (1800s). The purpose was to preserve the beer via it's long journey to India. They would mellow out during the trip.

Eventually some idiots locally decided the massively hoppy beer tasted good, so it became popular in England as well, but sold as "Pale Ales". I'll argue it was never meant for human consumption.

There ARE craft beers that incorporate less hops and I hate that craft beer is now synonymous with hops or IPA. I hate heavy hops, but love hefeweizens, weiss, stouts, brown porters, Belgian dubble/tripels, lambics, wheats, bocks...

I'll give you an unpopular opinion in the opposite direction. I think most sweets and desserts are cloying as fuck and can't understand why people eat them, or at least want more than a bite or two. I pretty much only have taste buds for savory/bitter/salty tastes these days, and hot sauce and peppers are awesome.

Just get your partner to wash their ass! It's also recommended to get an enema. Well, unless you're into that kind of thing, just make sure you're not immunocompromised.

Ah yes, I love iso propyl alcohol

I like these things but there are IPAs, peppers, and asses out there that I wouldn't eat. I understand how it could be confusing though, when sometimes I say "this beer tastes like (bad) ass" or "this IPA is badass" or "eating this asshole is fire" or "this pepper is going to light my asshole on fire".

Am I supposed to know what a pepperhead is?

I used up all my taste acquisition credits coming around on coffee and tolerating alcohol at all. I have zero fucks left to give when it comes to training myself to like hops. The bitter little cancerous-asshole-looking motherfuckers may be necessary but I sure as hell don't want the entire experience shaped by them.

I developed a taste for IPAs purely through Stockholm syndrome

It's true love when they fart while you're eating.

There's a local 8% one that's really good.

Sometimes I want something bitter. If I want hot and bitter, I’ll drink coffee. If I want cold and bitter, I’ll have an IPA. I also like dark chocolate. Must just be something about bitterness that I enjoy.

Thank you! IPA sucks ass. Get something tasty like a blonde or triple.

Me wondering why and how can people taste an iPhone app file (.ipa)

Yes, 🤓

I really shouldn't be having beer at all anymore, but I actually came to like a number of fairly hoppy IPAs. I do have issues with certain bitter things, but not others; I love black coffee, but I can't stand high-cacao dark chocolate and some herbs with bitter notes.

I love me some IPA, right up till you start adding adjectives... Hazy? Juicy? New England? West coast? No. Beer, hops, yum. Get the rest of that nonsense out of here. As a home brewer I refuse to get my Adjective IPA palate.

Ales and lagers are better