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IPAs fill beer shop fridges and supermarket shelves, and are regulars on tap in the pub, making them one of craft beer’s most popular styles. You’ll find two main types (along with the style’s closely related sibling, pale ale): Hazy or New England (NEIPA) and West Coast or American. In recent years, classic West Coast IPAs have been left in the shade, with all the attention on cloudy, yellow-orange East Coast beers. The latter emerged from the northeast of the US, coming to be known as New England or Hazy IPA, and they’re soft and smooth, low in bitterness and with juicy tropical, stone fruit and melon aromas from modern hops like citra and mosaic. It was a new revolution in IPA brewing, following the first revolution which emanated from the West Coast some 30 years earlier.