Best IPA?

Love the doubles...

Heady Topper
Gandhi Bot
Double Dose
Enjoy By
Double Jack

 

I maintained and continue to maintain that Pliny is not nearly as good as it's made to be on here. And I maintained that Westy 12 and Dark Lord were as well back when they were all the rage in the community. Heady is legit though and I've been to several DIPA blind tastings over the years where Heady ran away with it against other top contenders. I get what you're saying, and I mostly agree that there's a cult of personality that gets behind a lot of beers on here, but I don't put Heady in that category.

 

I homebrewed a Citra/Simcoe IPA last year and it was indeed awesome. The combination of tropical fruit flavors and pine flavors was sublime.

I am not aware of any commercial IPAs that are just a combination of Citra & Simcoe.

Cheers!

 

My favorite to drink is Arcadia IPA. Probably the best is Griffin Claw .

 

Lol, SNPA.

I just recently got to buy some Headhunter........what an excellent beer.

My best single IPAs:

Alpine Duet
Fat Heads Head Hunter
FW Union Jack
Surly Furious
Ithaca Flower Power
BP Sculpin

 

This! Pupil is amazing, I also just remembered I forgot my growler today...

 

Permanent Funeral
Heady

 

Working at two beer pubs next to each other with 87 taps between the two places this is a ridiculously hard question to answer. How about I name some breweries that I trust to make excellent IPA's instead:
Alpine,Russian River,3 Floyd's,Knee Deep, Ballast Point, Green Flash,Stone, Golden Road, Altamont Beer Works, 101 North, Drake's, Bell's, Founders....I give up this is too hard of a question to answer, I sholdn't have even posted.

 

Well brew it again and send it this way!

I'm not aware of any that exclusively use Citra and Simcoe, but I know that when used together (perhaps with other hops) it's usually a winner in my book. DirtWolf is the most recent example of this comb working well.

 

Yup, DirtWolf is indeed a tasty beer. Citra and Simcoe are in there but so is Chinook and Mosaic.

“Whole flower Citra, Chinook, Simcoe and Mosaic hops”

Cheers!

P.S. I am drinking a Simcoe/Amarillo IPA presently. That is my version of Alpine Duet. Simcoe and Amarillo also play very well together.

 

yep for me its my limit. Phiny the edler was interesting DIPA. Based on English standards of IPA SNPA is way up there

 

Enjoy by
Heady
OTWOA
White Oak Aged Jai Alai
Elevated

 

IPA:
Hitachino Nest Japanese Classic Ale
Nomád Karel Česká IPA 16°

IIPA:
Bells Hopslam (before the honey overtakes it)
Gänstaller-Bräu Green Gold IPA (lager IIPA)
DC Brau On the Wings of Armageddon

BIPA:
Thornbridge Wild Raven
Hoppin Frog Hop Heathen Imperial Black Ale

Hop forward Belgian:
Orval (< 8 weeks)
Taras Boulba

I have had Heady a couple of times, pretty nice brew but just another nice IIPA. I do applaud them for actually having their own unique yeast string but if you are not local, don’t see the need to go through the effort & cost of obtaining it.
I am not the biggest hophead out there & yes the Heady I have had was fresh.

Given the variability of human taste, no beer is ever going to be the best one, just like no band is ever going to be the greatest ever for everyone.

 

So far, Sculpin gets #1 for me, followed by:
Pliny
Terrapin Hopsecutioner
Two Hearted
Racer 5

 

FW Union Jack
Odell IPA
CCB Jai Alai
Schlafly TIPA
Surly Furious

 

Look up BA Top 100 beers.

 

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. It didn't fall off a balcony. I was sitting on my balcony. The glass was on a table with a regular pint glass. Both were empty. The breeze only blew over the IPA glass. It was extremely thin and lightweight.

 

Like so many others who've posted: Alpine Nelson.

 

Gandhi bot,
Heady topper,
DirtWolf,
Lunch,
sea Hag,
Jai Alai

In that order

 

Kern River Just outstanding
Alpine Duet
Sculpin < 7days old otherwise not on this list
Size 7