After Two Hearted

i like all 3 but racer 5 has more chinook and cascade hops than centennial hops as 2 hearted and centennial have

 

Hmmm... Didn't realize Two Hearted was all that citrusy. Including Imperial IPAs, for powerful citrus aroma/flavor I'd recommend (in no particular order):
Boneyard Hop Venom
Surly Abrasive
Alpine Nelson
HotD Blue Dot
Kern River Citra
Lagunitas Sucks
Pliny the Elder
Ithaca Flower Power
Ballast Point Sculpin
Driftwood Fat Tug
RR Blind Pig
Hopworks IPA
Hale's Supergoose
Icicle Bootjack
Pelican IPA
Stone IPA
Racer 5
Black Raven Wisdom Seeker
Snoqualmie Wildcat

 

Just keep drinking Two Hearted. Seriously.

 

Racer 5
Founders Centennial
Russian River Blind Pig (Trade for It! along with PtE)
Stone IPA

You can't go wrong with any of these but you won't be disappointed by the ones touted by others either.

 

Fresh

 

Besides trying new stuff and mixing it up for variety, the only IPAs (not counting imperials/doubles/etc) I might choose over Two-Hearted if they were all on tap together are RR Blind Pig and FW Union Jack.

 

Three Floyds Rye'da Tiger. Just had a bomber with dinner and it blows away two hearted which had been my all-time favorite ipa.

 

I wouldn't know...outside the distribution zone. I was fortunate to have a friend send me out a few bottles of it this past summer....great beer.

 

Alesmith IPA

 

I'm IN the distribution zone and I had to have a buddy bring be back a bottle on his recent drive up there.

Terrific beer though!

 

Cigar City Jai Alai if you can get it in SC. (If you were in NJ I'd recommend Kane Head High)

 

Racer 5 & Union Jack come to mind first.

 

Stone IPA was the first thought that came to my mind too. I've only had Two hearted a couple of times, but it always came across as a slightly better version of Stone IPA, and definitely immediately brought Stone to mind as a point of comparisson.

Lately, though, Stone seems to be making a push to have fresh beer on the shelves, and the sixer I got last week was without a doubt the best IPA I've had from them in a very loooong time- superbly juicy with just a hint of piney complexity. We'll see if they can keep it up, but I may be back on their bandwagon again.

 

Just stict with 2 heart & avoid any future disappointment
; )

Cheers

 

Fresh Flower Power is as close to Zombie Dust as you can get IMO. No idea what kinda hops they use but it tastes like a Citra hop bomb. I buy a case if available every trip back home to PA, usually under 2 weeks old, right at 42 bucks a case with NJ tax. If you have a shot you have to try FP it's a real treat is a sea of average taste a like IPA's.

 

Great post and I agree fully. I'd still throw in Centennial since they (Centennial and 2 Hearted) are both made from the same hops. I get a ton of tangerine and orange in all 3.

 

Just start trying a lot of different IPAs... I think you could find the citrus descriptor somewhere for any of them. We all have different palates.

Not sure if you're from Ohio but Columbus IPA is one to seek out. Has a lot of grapefruit flavor to me.

 

There are lot's of awesome ipa's out there, but when I think "citrusy", Hop Wallop (IIPA) immediatly comes to mind.