Best East Coast DIPAs

I hadn't had a 90 minute in over a year. I had one on tap this past weekend down at VA Beach, and thought it was a really top shelf double IPA. Need to remember not to forget the great ones while we chase after the latest craze brews.

 

If we are excluding HF beers (and to me that would assume we're excluding all VT beers) then my faves would be:
Head High (and double dry-hopped variants)
Overhead (and double dry-hopped variants)
077-07706
Julius
MoMoCoe
On The Wings of Armageddon
077xx
Lunch
Another One
Resin

 

Heady Topper obviously is amazing.
Dogfish head 90 is an awesome brew too.

My go-to though (maybe because it's local) is BP No Apologies.
Something about that beer straight from the tap. Very sweet, very hoppy, and damn good on a nice summer day outside on my balcony.

 

Lawson's Double Sunshine > Heady Topper > Dirtwolf

 

Lunch
Dirt Wolf
Exit 16
Overhead
Higher Standard

Hoping the 4 day old Limbo I just bought today will be one of them.

 

I really wish that Terrapin still brewed Rye Squared. That was always one of my favorites and I think that it probably got phased out for lacking sales, but I think that it was probably just years ahead of the developing palates in the states that they were available in at the time. I bet that if they released that again now, that it would be a powerhouse in their seasonal releases.

 

Victory Dirt Wolf
Southern Tier 2X IPA
Tree House Green
New England Ghandi-Bot
Ithaca Creeker
Trillium Congress Street


No love for Flower Power, Head Hunter, or Alchemy Hour (Chillwave)? Maybe not East Coast in style, but close enough to the East Coast for me.

 

Heady Topper
Gandhi Bot
DFH 90
Sixpoint Resin
Harpoon Leviathan IIPA
He'Brew Lenny's RIPA
Smuttynose Big A
Victory Dirtwolf
Brooklyn Blast
Wachusett Larry

 

Really surprised I haven't really seen anyone mention the Captain Lawrence, that bottle ya sent me a while back was so fucking good.... damn.

 

Love Victory DirtWolf...still haven't tried heady :/

 

Resin? I thought the OP said "BEST". Drainpour

Hill Farmstead Abner
Heady
Dirt Wolf is really good for the price

 

Another vote for Tree House. Julius was THAT good.

 

As I have exceptionally easy access to HF, Lawsons and Heady I will undeniably go with.........
1. SS #5
2. Double Citra
3. Double Sunshine
4. Abner
5. 2nd Fiddle by Fiddlehead- rediculously underrated and one of my favs

Its so hard to leave out Double Glaxy, Abner, SS#4, Ouroboros and DirtWolf for that matter, but hey that what you have to deal with when you live in Northern VT.

 

Aside from the big ones everyone knows about, I highly recommend Get Bent Mountain IPA from Parkway Brewing in Salem, VA. When fresh, it's not to be fucked with.

 

I've noticed Lunch and Limbo mentioned as doubles, there both fantastic but singles by definition.

1. Maine Beer Co. does now have a double - Lil' One, it's amazing.
2. Rising Tide - Calcutta Cutter is as good as a double gets.
3. Brash Brewing Co. - The Bollocks is solid.
4. Cambridge Brewing Co. - The Audacity of Hops.
5. Harpoon - Leviathan.

 

There's always Southern Tier in my fridge so 2XIPA is up there but I had my first DirtWolf this weekend on draft and man that shit is awesome!

 

Heady, dirtwolf, Brooklyn blast.

 

Oops, this thread is about DIPAs, sorry. However, their DIPA Four Damn Fights comes out next year and it's incredible.

 

Best bottled regular IPA in the DMV.

 

Aside from the VT big 3..
Rising Tide - Calcutta Cutter.