I think the majority of craft beer lovers (those who have been there since the beginning of the American Craft Beer movement), will remember the days of, “how bitter can we make beer?” Some of the greatest IPA’s ranked to date came from this alpha-acid race for high resin producing hops, and the expedition of hops growing here in the US. Right around the early 2000’s, we saw this style of beer begin to explode into the variant, fractured, all elusive entity that has become the IPA of today.