A Discerning Palate
don't @ me about beer
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Not a fan of beer. I like some IPAs which don't taste like like beer but I'm mostly a whisky/bourbon type (on the rare occasion I actually drink anything).
I became a patron so that I could come here and say that this comic made me snort-laugh, and I shared it with all my friends, even though I had to do a lot of backstory explaining.
OK...so IPAs smell like pissing mansplaining men in a freshly-mown field. It makes sense, actually.
I am with bubbles on IPAs!
love it
lol, yeah, that's the impression IPAs give me, as well.
I am a very serious beer geek, retired professional brewer, beer writer, competition judge, and would be more involved in the industry if I didn't have liver problems that severely restrict my consumption (the irony is palpable, is it not??). I know people who would be EXTREMELY offended by that closing panel (mostly because it was too descriptive of them). I personally think it is one of the most hilarious things I've EVER seen!! 😂
Does that make IPA's the beer of the patriarchy? I LIKE IPAs but more the west coast variety as opposed to the super high IBU styles. Pliny the Elder is pretty heckin good but I'm no fan of Sierra Nevada's IPA.
"I cannot get him to stop" is not something Bubbles often says.
I think the "I cannot get him to stop without resorting to violence" is implied here
Hahahaha, I like beer, but not IPAs, and... that is just perfect. Thank you, Jeph. Bubbles. Whoever.
I love stouts & porters but IPAs are like drinking lawn piss
I'm not a drinker, so I have to take Bubbles' word for it.
I'm so pleased. Bubbles feels the same way about IPAs as I do!
Me too! I have always hated Martin’s palate!
This is the best description of beer. Ever.
Bubbles is an angel, and also right about beer.
Is any one else a fan of Moose Drool? I found it on a trip to Yellowstone. Don’t know what kind of beer it is. It is very dark, but with a surprising light taste. It is distributed in a very limited area. Wish I could get it here.
Basically, it'a a brown ale. And sadly, yes, it has a limited number of states where you can get it. I attempted to make a clone of it once, dubbed "mouse dribble."
That's the best description of IPAs I've ever heard!
I usually just say 'lawn clippings' but Bubbles really nailed it with the addition of urine & mansplaining. I guess IPAs are a young douchey man's game :)
Spinoff - Bubbles Beer reviews
Great IPA joke!
I can appreciate both. Fall, Winter & Spring I usually stick with stouts ( drinking a lovely 11% ABV Michigan stout as we speak ) but switch to IPAs in the summer ( my favorite being one I sadly can't get in WNY. Diabolical IPA from North Peak Brewing Co ... a nice 6.66% ABV with serious citrus overtones. The perfect summer thirst quencher )
6.66% ABV. Nice.
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Agreed. Give me a decent stout or porter any day.
So IPA has a *built in* real ale snob? that explains SOO much...
Sounds accurate to me, and I live in Bury St Edmunds where they make the stuff. Very malty smell, which is actually nice!
IPA = over-hopped, GROSSLY over-hyped swill. Now a nice Scottish ale, on the other hand....
Is the same, but there's a Highland cow in the field?
That is the perfect description of IPA
I hate it when my beer mansplains to me
I bet if you named a new IPA "man urinating", it would still sell.
And would continue to sell even after it came out it was named that because of an integral part to how it was made. Despite this truth in advertising, the FDA or the ATF would shut it down, however. Possibly both.
jeph Im friggin' cackling at the last panel
Now I NEED to know what are her opinion of all the other beers/ales.
No. Great IPAs could be used as God’s existence proof to me. Bad IPAs prove that there’s no god and that some brewers just urinate in a keg and add some alcohol and carbonate.
oh Bubbles, YES. So very much YES.
I think I know the answer to this already, but... Can't get him to stop the explanation or the urination?
Does it really matter?
Weds looked at this, agreed solemnly, and said "or it's like bitters, which are like IPAs only moreso and louder. And with weird groping." And then shivered.
Bubbles is spot on wtf
I love IPAs a bubbles is entirely correct
TIL, so **that's** why I don't like IPAs.
She is most certainly not wrong. Especially the smell of an IPA.
Bubbles is now my Avatar Of Beer™. I'm so with her on this one. I've never understood the Pacific Northwest's fetish that "If the bitterness didn't melt your tongue and pucker your butthole in the same second, it wasn't manly enough" bullpucky.
Hahaha, that last panel!
This is the greatest description of IPA's I have ever heard. A+++
I'm with Bubbles. --N
If it's a craft IPA, the urinating man also has a handlebar mustache.
The truth about IPAs.
Oh, gawd, it's true: I *do* do more mansplaining when a craft IPA is in my hand! Welp, looks like it's time to switch to lagers.
What do amber ales say about you, then? Or tripels?
That’s, yeah, that’s pretty much accurate
Hops, ewwww
Hm... So that's what I haven't been able to put into words...
I laughed out loud, and I *enjoy* IPAs. Well done.
A good IPA tastes great. The problem is, IPA seems to be used by most brewers to cover up the sins in their production methods.
Agreed 100%. I still love good IPAs though.
I spit on my phone lol
Were you drinking the IPA at the moment?
Oh my god, this is how I feel about IPAs in my very soul. I love this comic.
Best description of IPAs ever haha
no, that's totally accurate
Pretty much sums up all beer.