Top 10 Imperial IPAs

As most IPAs they make, it is top tier. They are my favorite IPA maker in the country right now.

 

I'm waiting on that Alpine X New Belgium right now, Super IPA! I can't wait. Thanks for the suggestion also. Noble Ale Works has been one of my favorite brewers lately and I'm in San Diego.

 

The Super IPA is delicious!

 

My top-scored beers within the style...

4.75 Enjoy By IPA, Pliny the Elder
4.66 Heady Topper
4.6 Sosus
4.59 Gandhi-Bot
4.55 Citra Showers (retired), Devil Dancer (more of an amber than a pale)
4.54 Doom (retired)
4.53 Racer X
4.5 Burton Baton, Double Trouble, Hopslam, Scream IIPA

...Hoptimum, DirtWolf, and Double Jack could easy be swapped in for the retired ales and the DD...

 

Very tough one, and I am very fond of the style. Let me divulge in no particular order (though #1 is more or less a lock in):

1.) Kuhnhenn DRIPA
2.) Bell's Hopslam
3.) Founder's Double Trouble
4.) Stone Enjoy By
5.) Heady Topper
6.) Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
7.) Pliny the Elder
8.) Great Lakes Chill Wave
9.) On the Wings of Armageddon
10.) Victory Dirt Wolf

 

No particular order

Enjoy By
Heady Topper
Nelson Showers
Pure Hoppiness
Pliny
Simtra
Kern Winter Ale (2013 batch)
RuinTen...
Hmm last 2...maybe hopslam and dirtwolf?

 

Heady Topper
Pliny the Elder
Enjoy by
Apex
Freak of Nature
Double Jack
Chillwave
Hopslam
Hop Ranch
Ballast Point Dorado

 

Top ten in no order:

Pliny The Elder
Hopslam (circa 2007)
GI Imperial IPA
Stone Enjoy By
Yulesmith
Maharaja
FFF Dreadnaught
FFF Arctic Panzer Wolf
Firestone Double Jack
Lagunitas Sucks

 

In This Order :

Dirtwolf
Menaresta 22 La Verguenza
Enjoy By
Hoptimum
Pliny The Elder
Dogfish Head 90 Minute
Hop Ranch
Double Trouble
Buxton Wyoming Sheep Ranch Special Reserve.

 

Ive only had a few DIPAs but the one I liked the most i havent seen on anyones list.
Big Cranky from Stony Creek!

Im also loving Baxters Bootlegg Fireworks too but thats been mentioned.

 

1) Surly Abrasive
2) Fulton Insurrection
3) Steel Toe Sticker Fight
4) Central Waters Illumination
5) Heady Topper
6) Lagunitas Sucks!
7) Toppling Goliath King Sue
8) Carton 077XX

 

By my ratings/reviews:
1. Dinner - Maine Beer Co.
2. All Green Everything - Other Half
3. Double Citra - Hill Farmstead
4. Triple Sunshine - Lawson's Finest
5. Epiphany - Foundation
6. Heady Topper - Alchemist
7. Upper Case - Trillium
8. Second Fiddle - Fiddlehead
9. Coriolis - NEBCO
10. Swish - Bissell Brothers

 

Epiphany
Mangrove Double Ipa
The Calling
Dreadnaght
Hopdrop n' Roll
Dirt Wolf
Stone Enjoy By
Crank
Freak
Ruination 2.0
Passion Fruit
Rainmaker
Hops for Teacher
In no particular order..

 

You should get some Captain's Daughter...pretty available in Lil' Rhody

 

1) Pliny the Elder
2) Unsessionable
3) SOS
4) Abrasive
5) Heady
6) Surly Wet (I think this counts right?)
7) King Sue
8) Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye (I'm counting this too)
9) Redankulous
10) Myrcenary

8, 9, and 10 are up in the air and a few others could definitely step in there as well.

 

Not sure if I posted, but it may have changed anyway. No order other than the top 2 being my top 2

Russian River Pliny the Elder
Columbus Brewing Bodhi
Fat Head's Hop Ju Ju
Foundation Brewing Epiphany
Moylan's Hop Craic XXXXIPA
3 Floyds Arctic Panzer Wolf
Hoof Hearted Roller Blabe
Heady Topper
Stone Enjoy By
The Brew Kettle El Lupulo Libre

Honorable mention list
Fiddlehead Mastermind
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
Carton 077XX
Revolution Unsessionble
Parish Ghost in the Machine
Hoof Hearted Dragonsaddle
Trillium Congress St.
Bell's Hopslam
Sixpoint Resin
Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn

Not eligible technically due to style, but Surly Todd the Axe Man belongs with all of these.

 

#1 - Haze/Treehouse
#2 - Vicinity/Trillium
#3 - Heady/Alchemist
#4 - Pliny/Russian River
#5 - Sure Bet/Pipeworks
#6 - 077XX/Carton
#7 - Epiphany/Foundation
#8 - Green Diamonds/Other Half
#9 - Overhead/Kane
#10 - Abrasive/Surly

This was a tough one!!! So many good ones!!

 

the fact that I had to go through 5 pages of top 10's before i saw the CD is absurd!

 

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (except for HT):
Heady Topper – The Alchemist
Hop Stoopid - Lagunitas Brewing Company
DuganA IPA - Avery Brewing Company
Ninja Vs. Unicorn - Pipeworks Brewing Company
Balling The Queen - Tyranena Brewing Company
Idiot Farm - Karben4 Brewing
Abrasive Ale - Surly Brewing Company
DirtWolf - Victory Brewing Company
Double Jack - Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Founders Double Trouble - Founders Brewing Company

HONORABLE MENTION:
Ruination Double IPA 2.0 - Stone Brewing Co
Unearthly - Southern Tier Brewing Company
Hop ***** - Tyranena Brewing Company
Thumbprint Scream IIPA - New Glarus Brewing Company
Double Fist - Revolution Brewing Company
Maharaja -Avery Brewing Company
A Little Sumpin' Extra! Ale - Lagunitas Brewing Company

 

Creeper
Heady Topper
Chillwave
Billy Full Stack
Roller Blabe
Pliny
El Lupulo Libre
077XX
Green Flash West Coast ipa
Ruinten
Dragon Saddle