When looking at the most entered styles, three of the top four wore IPA in the title. Hazy India Pale Ale reigned supreme with 326 offerings, followed by West-Coast Style India Pale Ale with 281.
With this product, Brooklyn Brewery wanted to bring the IPA ‘haze craze’ to a mainstream audience. While well established in America, in other global markets, hazy IPAs have a less familiar status, ...
But a short time later, the craft beer industry started making a quick about-face. As Smith’s same reporting noted, “In 2018, entries for the American-style IPA shrank, while the festival’s newest ...