This sure sounded like a weird beer article to me. This showed up in my Google news feed, which regularly shows me beer articles.
Their abbreviation and my abbreviation differ significantly in flavor. 
Here I was thinking that we try so hard to prevent wet cardboard flavor in our beers…
I don’t do anything with resin in shop (yet at least) but I haven’t seen IPA u used for that before. Maybe I learned something new today. Paul