Category: IPA

Year in Beer

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Spotify Untappd has released its Year in Beer feature for 2022. Happily for us, the release is promoted with a new badge. To claim it, check into any beer between 13 December and 13 January. That’s so easy, you probably already have it!

The release is accompanied by seven style specific badges that are sponsored by Oskar Blues and Cigar City. Check into any beer of that style to earn each badge. They styles are: IPA – American, Pale Ale – American, IPA – New England / Hazy, Wheat Beer – Hereweizen, Blonde Ale, Dark Ale and Hard Seltzer.

Super Style: IPA – Imperial / Double

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Another of Untappd’s badges that are exclusive to paid subscribers, to earn this you need to be a paid member and check into any Imperial/Double IPA. Simple really, just reach for your wallet and you are halfway there!

This is the fifth of six paid badges that Untappd has said they will release in 2022.

Super Style: American IPA

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Following Untappd’s refresh of its supporter programme and its rebrand as Insiders, Untappd has now released the first of a series of “Super Style” badges that are exclusive to members.

This badge is attainable if you are a member of the Insiders programme and you check into an American IPA style beer. Like a normal badge, it then levels up every 5 additional check ins you make.

Untappd has just followed this one up with an Imperial/Double Stout badge, with more expected to be on their way soon.

All Together

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An open source beer that is being brewed by a number of different breweries around the world to support the hospitality industry, check into any version of the beer before 8 June 2020 to claim the badge. (Update: now extended until 8 August 2020)

The initiative started with the Other Half Brewing Co in New York, who came up with the recipe for this Hazy IPA. Currently 749 breweries in 51 countries are producing the brew, so chances are you can get your hands on one.

Shake it Up!

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A subset of the Haze craze, have 5 Milkshake IPAs or Pale Ales to earn this badge. Then have 5 more, as it levels up all the way to 100.

These Ales are heavy on unfermentable sugars such as lactose and commonly flavoured with fruit and vanilla – creating a sweet and thick hazy pale ale.

Rye It Up!

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Have 5 Rye beers to earn the Rye It Up! badge. It levels after every 5 beers, all the way to level 100.

Four styles currently count towards this badge: Rye Beer, IPA – Rye, Rye Wine and the traditional German style of Roggenbier.

In Lighter Times

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The badge for India Pale Lagers. Have 5 IPLs for level 1.

Lighter

An IPL is a bit of a hybrid. Hoppy like an IPA but brewed with lager yeast at a cooler temperature, the result is a crisp lager with a big hoppy finish.

A relatively recent creation, consensus still hasn’t emerged on what defines the style. As a result some IPLs can be no more than a slightly hoppy lager while others are the wort of an IPA simply brewed with a different yeast.