What's your favorite IPA? (2022)

King SSSueee.

 

Four Chicago IPA Stars



Available Year Round in Chicago: Revolution Anti-Hero & Spiteful IPA
Chicago Seasonals: Half Acre Navaja & Spiteful 10/9 Bike Messenger Appreciation IPA

Four for the Road
Available in Las Vegas & sometimes here: Beachwood Amalgamator & AleSmith IPA
Favorites beyond Chicago & Las Vegas: Fat Heads IPA & Russian River Pliny the Elder

You can buy me an Amalgamator, any old time.

 

All-time fav: Sierra Nevada Celebration
Year-round and available: SN Torpedo and Fiddlehead IPA
Honorable mentions: Bells Two Hearted, Alchemist Focal Banger, Pollyanna Lexical Gap, and Fat Head’s Head Hunter

 

In a world where I could get my favorite any time any where-
Pliny
Yellow Rose
Head Hunter
all hit the sweet spot for me.

For what's regularly available it's probably Cape May Coastal Evacuation, especially when fresh.

Maine Lunch is just too pricey per bottle to be a regular, but on draught it's one I'd never pass up.

 

Lunch narrowly missed my list. Never buy it in bottles, but like you I won’t pass it up on draft.

 

All year: Bell’s Two Hearted Ale and Fat Head’s Head Hunter are neck and neck

Seasonal: Fat Head’s Hop Juju

I’m not considering beers I don’t regularly see here but like, e.g. Sip of Sunshine or Pliny the Elder, and only occasionally get because of the generosity of other Advocates.

 

According to my ratings log its a tie (or close enough) between Bell's Two Hearted Ale and Rush Duck Remarkable Liquids 2nd Anniversary IPA.

 

I agree with MotorHate,
Sammy Smith India ale.
Domestic is Founder's Double Trouble, but it's never "in season" anymore.
I'll drink a 2-Hearted, but I'm so worn out from it.
Other than that, I'm sick n tired of them.

 

Half Acre Vallejo

 

Be Hoppy by Wormtown Brewery when I'm in New England and Jia Alai by Cigar City when I'm in Florida.

These beers are available fresh and on draft, reasonably priced, true to style and a great value.

 

The ever only 1 IPA on my mind. Waldos

 

There are so many good ones, but my favorite American IPA is Racer 5. As far as "English" Samuel Smith has a very good example as noted above.

 

I can’t pick a single one, but I got to shout out Whiplash, best brewery in Ireland making the best IPA in Ireland by a mile

 

Not only is it my favourite style , American IPA (280) beers consumed
but Driftwood has got me hooked , Gold , Silver & Bronze
#1 - (4.54) Sartori Harvest IPA | Driftwood Brewery | BeerAdvocate
#2 - (4.53) Fat Tug IPA | Driftwood Brewery | BeerAdvocate
#3 - (4.34) Raised By Wolves IPA | Driftwood Brewery | BeerAdvocate
have a hoppy IPA day

 

King Sue

 

Hoppy IPA Day! Oh gosh. Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Ithica Flower Power IPA, Bell's Two Hearted, Whitbread Pale Ale (snuck that one in). Too many favorites!

 

Bells Two Hearted

But Lone Pint Yellow Rose is a close second - I just can't get it here.