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"Breaking IPAs into various sub-styles (now including fruit/veggie/spiced IPAs) has provided some good visibility into how the IPA growth engine has continued to run in recent years. Since Dan did a good job of laying out the numbers, here are a few counter-intuitive ways to break them apart that you may have missed.

American IPAs are still the majority of growth. Yes, I know that American IPAs lost four share points within the IPA category, but they still represent nearly two-thirds of dollar sales and grew at nearly 30 percent. When you break that into new dollar sales brought into the category, it means that 55 percent of incremental dollar sales came from American IPAs. For comparison, the fastest growing category–session IPAs–brought in 18 percent of incremental dollar sales.

[Of all IPA sub-styles,] American IPAs are also the most efficient in terms of sales/brand (though sessions are rapidly catching up). It’s possible that these trends will change as other sub-styles have more time in the marketplace and become the flagship for various companies, but it’s interesting to see that any rumors of American IPA's demise have been grossly exaggerated."

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Via Twitter, Watson suggested that the "English-style" IPA subcategory might include such beers as Shipyard, Geary's, Brooklyn Brewery East IPA, Left Hand Brewing 400 lb Monkey, Long Trail Beer IPA, and a "bunch of east coast IPAs."

IPA_3469 by Wayne Buck

IPA by bamanbo

Titelblatt eines von Hand gezeichneten Vereinsblattes (1977)

Ipa *2 by adrianarca

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iPa! by M G

iPa!

51st State Ipa by Agustin

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Ipa sin filtrar, inspirada en las New England Ipa (NEIPA) o cervezas Hazy Ipa, con potentes notas a frutas tropicales. Con el distintivo toque de la cerveza irlandesa de O´Hara´s.

IPA_4523 by Wayne Buck

IPA_3616 by Wayne Buck

IPAS 2018121 by rvc845

IPAS 201896 by rvc845

IPAS 2018134 by rvc845

IPA 300, (1958). by Txemari. (Navarra).

Presentado en la feria de la industria de 1958, el IPA 300 fue referenciado como uno de los exponentes de la industria metalo-mecánica nacional de la época.

Armonioso y seductor el IPA 300 atrajo la atención de gobernantes y del público en general; aunque no pasó de ser un prototipo.

João monteiro da Conceição, idealizó aquello que consideraba un verdadero automóvil popular, en dos versiones, una 2+2 y otra como un elegante coupé.

La base mecánica, era de un vehículo inglés Astra, un pequeño vehículo comercial equipado con un motor British Anzani de dos cilindros y dos tiempos con aproximadamente 15 cv que correspondía por entero a las necesidades de una familia típica portuguesa con dos hijos.

IPA chart II by Dicen que eres antigua...