Double IPA recomendations

I tasted many pine tar bombs I just cannot acquire a taste for pine sol.

 

I usually hate Pine sol as well, but Devil Dancer is the exception. I freaking HATED Hoptimum.

 

Get an IPA from Three Floyds. Dreadnaught or Arctic Panzer Wolf. Light on the pine, heavy on the citrus, bitter and dry as hell. Amarillo goodness.

There's a characteristic FFF flavor that I haven't found in any other beer, and it's wonderful.

Last year's Devil Dancer was more like Garlic Sol. This year's was pretty tasty, though

 

Dreadnaught
Odell's Myrcenary

 

Lagunitas Sucks when it comes back around.

 

it did work as a battery post cleaner. hoptimum that is. sorry SN epic fail on that 1 IMHO.

 

yea not their best effort, but to each his own. I have a buddy that bought a case, he loved it that much.

 

yea It always amazes me how many love or hate a beer.

 

Avery Maharaja has a real tropical nose and is very malty, not piney. Check the date on the bottle. It comes out about once every four months so get a fresh one if you can.

 

X2

Definitely this.

The recently released collab between New Belgium and Alpine, Super IPA, is also a good one.

Breckenridge's 471 IPA...weak brewery but a very nice brew.

Odell's collab...Pond Hopper.

Edit: That Super IPA is not light on the pine. Missed that specification...but I will say as someone who isn't too into pine either, I enjoyed that one a lot still.

 

EDIT: Lupulin Maximus from O'so

 

Depends on what's available and where you live. I like Double Jack too, but Firestone Walker isn't distributed in NC, it may not be in your state either. If you have a quality shop that breaks into singles, that's your best bet, try it one bottle at a time. Check dates where you can, freshness is critical with DIPA's even more so than IPA's.

 

Ballast Point - Dorado

 

Surly Abrasive (dec release)
CW Illumination
Mycenary
hop crisis

 

Many good ones mentioned. My recommends, and some have been mentioned:
Wide Distro:
Torpedo
Hop Crisis
Hop Stoopid
Poss. by you?
Big A
Boy King (!!!!!)
Need to trade, and worth it.
Kern Citra
Abrasive
Knuckle Sandwich
Tricerahops
Hop Henge
Kryptonite

Not a super pine-bomb in the bunch, though some of these are very bitter. K R Citra , Heady Topper, and Abrasive are citrus/tropical with low pine and extreme deliciousness.

 

Try west coast IPAs... Alpine Duet, Alpine Nelson, Green Flash West Coast, Ballast Point Sculpin, etc.

 

A whole bunch at my local store marked down from $5.99 to $2.99. Had one once....eh.

 

lagunitas maximus

 

Russian River Pliny the Elder (the Younger too, if you can ever get your hands on it)
Drake's Denogginizer
Stone Ruination
Greenflash

However, I didn't enjoy the Sierra Nevada Hoptimum all that much.

Edit: Also really enjoy Firestone Walker Double Barrel Jack

 

Somehow I don't believe Ruination falls under the "less pine-y" request.