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July 12, 2016

10 GREAT NEW IPAS YOU NEED TO TRY

It’s a bit tricky to track beer sales statistics because there are so many competing definitions of what even counts as beer, never mind what counts as craft beer, but most sources seem to agree that IPA accounts for about a quarter of the better beer sold in America. Of course, this figure would be lower if Anheuser-Busch weren’t erecting giant pyramids of Goose Island IPA in the front of every beer store in the country, but on the other hand it’d be higher if Sierra Nevada had opted to toss “India” on the Pale Ale label 30 years ago. But let’s stick with the 25 percent figure, as it tracks to the most important data set: a rough approximation of my own drinking habits.