I have found my Pliny Killer

That's the plan.
Only question is who's got some to ship to me!?
I'm always stacked up on FFF standards.

 

Ugh, yes. I have a case of Heady in my fridge and I still often crave a fresh Flower Power.

 

Top 5 (other than Pliny):
Sculpin, White Rajah, hoptologist, Heavy Handed, Masala Mama.... There you go!

 

Buy it online. Thats how I got my first taste

 

Heady, Abner, Ephraim, SS5, Chinooker'd, Hopzilla, Double Sunshine, all head and shoulders above PtE.

 

mmmm.... pliny.... definitely top 5 IPA's for me, there are so many good ones out there now.

Been really into Sculpin IPA lately. Also, anything from Drake's... Their Jolly Rogers is fantastic!

 

Link?
Number?

Thx

 

First let me say that I think Pliny is a great well made beer, but I just don't understand the hype it has received. I think the Great Lakes area has way better DIPAs to offer from a variety of breweries including FFF, Founders, Bells, Fat Heads, etc... Just my own opinion.

 

Lagunitas ipa is my favorite plus I can go to almost any store. To get it and sierra Nevada torpedo . Mammoth epic ipa was better too

 

I hope youre not saying that the Midwest makes better IPAs than California...

 

Pliny is great. But my Pliny killers are Heady Topper and Surly Wet.

 

You probably just don't understand West Coast style IPA. its not for everybody.

 

I had it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I have to say that it was solid, and that's about it. I will say that I am a little spoiled though I have Kuhnhenn's DRIPA available to me 24 hours a day. If you haven't had it, do yourself a favor... It may change the way you forever judge IPA's.

 

Head hunter is amazing, and surprisingly under hyped on here, especially the way ipas cost. My personal Pliny killer is abrasive.

Heady topper is Damn good too.

 

Hoping to try abrasive soon!

 

I'm not saying midwest breweries make better beers than California, I'm saying Great Lake Water basin breweries make better IPAs than California. Why is that such a shocking statement? People are too stuck in the glamorous thought of California being this mecca of breweries that they can't even fathom less prestigious places like the midwest or great lakes creating beers that are as good or better than the west. Now, don't take this out of context and think I don't like west coast breweries. I think Blind Big and Indica are on my top 10 list of IPAs, but I'm a skeptic of any beer that gets as much glamour such as Pliny without being readily available in the midwest and east of it.

 

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Just because I'm not all for the super hype of Piny it must mean I don't understand California style IPAs? I'm not sure I get that logic.

 

To each their own, but this is simply not true.

 

Most every Midwest or northeast or east coast ipa /iipa ppl go ape over is a California style ipa /iipa
I don't see ppl going crazy over a east coast malt forward ipas
At best the other locations will copy the west coast style and whoever nails it, ppl like.
Not to say Cali makes beers, I think people prefer the Cali ipa taste profile.

 

Yep. The most acclaimed Midwest IPAs (Head Hunter, White Rajah) ape the West Coast-style through and through.

I'm not discrediting beers here, I'm just saying that CA is pretty widely held as the IPA capital of the world, so saying that the Midwest makes better IPAs than CA is pretty absurd.