IPA's are definitely an acquired taste. If you haven't really had many, you definitely aren't going to like a double IPA, or pretty much anything over 7%.
Although you might like Dogfish Head's 90 minute IPA destrekor. It's a strong IPA, but it's also very malty.
Is the 90 minute less IPA-ish than the 60 minute?
I tried their 60 minute IPA, and was definitely NOT impressed. It was a struggle to drink, but I must give them credit, it did still have an aura of, you know, beer.
I tried Columbus Brewery's IPA, and well, that is the one I am talking about when I say pine-sol. Not a single one of my roommates could handle the stuff.
On the hop-barley spectrum, I've grown to enjoy just about every style of beer that is in the middle all the way to the far end of the barley world... except barley wines, I haven't given those a try just yet, and from the farthest into the malt world I've been in any style outside of stout's, they get almost overly sweet, and I've heard that as an extreme for barley wines.
So far, those two IPAs, considering the better one was from Dogfish (which I agree they make amazing brews outside.. of the IPA world), it doesn't give me much hope of ever enjoying an IPA.
I mean, if I couldn't find myself able to even drink a 6pack of Dogfish, let alone actually enjoy it, how could I expect to enjoy any IPA?
BTW, their Theobroma (that needs to be made year-round dammit!) is by far my favorite "specialty brew" I have ever consumed. Sweet raptor-riding jesus, that stuff lends credit to the notion that the gods might just have had an elixir of choice.
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