Best Readily available IPAs

Sculpin is up there, by any measure, for sure. If you literally mean chasing a truck, then I would argue that very few require that. In that case:

Permanent Funeral
Alpha King
Daisy Cutter
Fist City
Abrasive
Crimson Snapper, Sure Bet, Square Grouper (all very similar, and sell out super quickly, although don't actual require truck chasing)
Hi-Res
Scream
Navaja
Double Daisy Cutter (any form)
Unsessionable
Citra Ninja

Obviously a lot of those are DIPAs, but I figured that since two of the bigger truck-chasing ones are as well (Pliny and HT...well, HT technically isn't, but still), it's fair game.

 

So true, I was in military for 30 yrs and lived in Seattle area for 4 yrs and loved the Pac Northwest craft brewers (R.I.P, Aviator Ales). Never heard of any of the Vermont or Northeast brewers until I moved back here.

 

Racer 5
Union Jack
Lagunitas IPA

 

Some of these are subject to distribution, but always pretty easy to find if you're in the right area:

Sculpin and GF Sculpin
Mother Earth Boo Koo
Ithaca Flower Power
Victory Dirt Wolf
Stone Enjoy By
Stone Ruination 2.0 (Like a mini Enjoy By)
Lagunitas Sucks
Saint Archer DIPA and Mosaic
Drake's Hopocalypse
Knee Deep (Pretty much everything they make)
Noble Showers Series (Citra and Nelson are absolutely incredible)

 

Delicious IPA
Go To IPA
Pinner
Dales
Deviant Dales
Enjoy By
Racer 5
Duble Jack
Easy Jack
Union Jack
Daisy Cutter
Heyoka (I think its senita now)
Unsessionable
Anti-Hero
Furious
The Calling
Any Sixpoint beer
any lagunitas beer
Chill wave
Ninja vs Unicorn
Hoptimum
I could keep going on and on and on.

 

+1 for Maine Beer Company. If Another One stops its visit to Baltimore..I might stop buying MBC's Brews .

 

its hard to beat dogfishhead 60 minute for price, availability, and taste.

Im surprised Daisy Cutter has only been mentioned once and jai alai twice

 

Try your local breweries' selections. Honestly it's as easy as that! You might find 9 out of 10 local IPAs aren't that great but maybe you find that 1 that is and it goes overlooked because of the hype from the larger or more popular breweries.

 

I'm sure my list'll be redundant with most of what's been mentioned, but I'll do it any way...

In my neck o' the woods, these are reliably around and at least one is always within its freshness range...
Space Dust
Two Hearted
Sculpin
Union Jack
Flower Power
Jai Alai

 

my pleasure and thank you

 

Lagunitas IPA and Sucks
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed
Victory Dirtwolf
Ballast Point Sculpin
Odell Myrcenary
Surly Furious

 

Hoptimum just came out this week in MA, get any? Where about in NH are you? Near the Craft Beer cellar, Nashua? Close to Portland Me or Portsmouth, NH? NH has some great breweries.

 

This.

Just wished it would hit the MD distro

 

I think the reboot of Ruination is pretty incredible.

 

Otter Creek Backseat Berner

 

As the various lists presented here indicate, there are so many worthy IPAs out these days that you're pretty much surrounded. Just be sure to watch for bottling dates.

A couple I didn't see mentioned:

Uinta Hop Nosh, which used to be Hop Notch and which remains a fine brew.
Mayflower IPA, which I find a bit underappreciated, perhaps because it's not hugely hop-forward but nicely balanced.
Pretty Things Meadowlark, admittedly a bomber-only brew but still really good.

(Of course if you're in NH you must have experience with Smuttynose Finestkind, an IPA that does the Granite State proud.)

 

Have to go Victory Dirtwolf

 

Dozens and dozens are out there
Freshed Squeezed is one i like

 

Haven't seen it mentioned yet...but my girlfriend is all about Finch's Chimera Hardcore...and it's always on the shelf here in VT.

Other easy finds are Long Trail's Limbo & Otter Creek's Backseat Burner are pretty awesome & easily available locally. Repeat the obvious...Sierra Nevada & Smuttynose & Lagunitas.

 

When I'm at home in SC
-Sculpin
-Westbrook IPA
-Whatever homebrewed IPA I've got on tap (usually 2 because that's mainly what we drink around the house)

When visiting family in Portland Oregon
-Fresh Squeezed
-Laurelwood Workhorse
-Breakside IPA