A Discerning Palate

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).

Gregory Norris

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.

Waffles the Mooose

I am with bubbles on IPAs!

Patrick Jackson

love it

The Shadow's Lair

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.

Some Ed

Me too! I have always hated Martin’s palate!

Katherine Prewitt

lol, yeah, that's the impression IPAs give me, as well.

Daryl Sawyer

I... I guess I'll drink something else then. o.O

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!! 😂

Joe

I think the "I cannot get him to stop without resorting to violence" is implied here

Matt

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.

Jim Feldman

I love stouts & porters but IPAs are like drinking lawn piss

Vince Averello

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 :)

Vince Averello

"I cannot get him to stop" is not something Bubbles often says.

Matt Grayson

Were you drinking the IPA at the moment?

Evgeniy Semyonov

6.66% ABV. Nice.

Derrik Pates

Hahahaha, I like beer, but not IPAs, and... that is just perfect. Thank you, Jeph. Bubbles. Whoever.

Derrik Pates

I'm not a drinker, so I have to take Bubbles' word for it.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

I'm so pleased. Bubbles feels the same way about IPAs as I do!

Dev

This is the best description of beer. Ever.

Bubbles is an angel, and also right about beer.

Anne and the Apocalypse

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."

kaitou

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.

Philip D Jones

That's the best description of IPAs I've ever heard!

Leonard Volk

Spinoff - Bubbles Beer reviews

Great IPA joke!

Matt

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 )

Is the same, but there's a Highland cow in the field?

Andrew Tate

?

Lee Kinkade

Agreed. Give me a decent stout or porter any day.

EnterTheHero

So IPA has a *built in* real ale snob? that explains SOO much...

David Howe

Sounds accurate to me, and I live in Bury St Edmunds where they make the stuff. Very malty smell, which is actually nice!

Kevin Symonds

IPA = over-hopped, GROSSLY over-hyped swill. Now a nice Scottish ale, on the other hand....

Ian Wolfe

That is the perfect description of IPA

SpookyPenguin

I hate it when my beer mansplains to me

JD

I bet if you named a new IPA "man urinating", it would still sell.

Andrew

jeph Im friggin' cackling at the last panel

Waffliesinyoface

Now I NEED to know what are her opinion of all the other beers/ales.

Milo

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.

giacomo vaghi

Does it really matter?

awgiedawgie

oh Bubbles, YES. So very much YES.

Katrina Urmson

I think I know the answer to this already, but... Can't get him to stop the explanation or the urination?

Bagge

Harsh but true

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.

Eric Burns-White

Bubbles is spot on wtf

Alexa

I love IPAs a bubbles is entirely correct

Samantha

TIL, so **that's** why I don't like IPAs.

Andrew Mitchell

She is most certainly not wrong. Especially the smell of an IPA.

Pete Hanson

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.

Elf Sternberg

Hahaha, that last panel!

This is the greatest description of IPA's I have ever heard. A+++

I'm with Bubbles. --N

Nobilis Reed (personal)

If it's a craft IPA, the urinating man also has a handlebar mustache.

Charlotte Grubbs

The truth about IPAs.

Mike Robinson

There's always pilsners. The beer that says, "Not only am I not going to explain anything to you, if you try and explain anything to me, I'm going to leave and I'm taking my beer with me."7

Gary Walker

Same. Hard same.

Gary Walker

Agreed 100%. I still love good IPAs though.

Brian

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.

BobC

That’s, yeah, that’s pretty much accurate

Brian

Hops, ewwww

TMN

Hm... So that's what I haven't been able to put into words...

Kinda Squirrely

I laughed out loud, and I *enjoy* IPAs. Well done.

Hugh Eckert

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.

z

LOL. My husband is going to hate this punchline.

Erin Hartshorn

I spit on my phone lol

Oh my god, this is how I feel about IPAs in my very soul. I love this comic.

Anton

Best description of IPAs ever haha

Curtis Cahoon

no, that's totally accurate

Justin Bean

Pretty much sums up all beer.

Jono Hayward