Favorite IPA 6% or under

Harpoon IPA for me. Not a huge fan of the style to begin with, but if the only IPAs i could drink for the rest of my life were this, and brooklyn blast for a dipa, i'd be alright with that.

 

This is a very good question, the only IPAs that I have drank that were under 6% were castaway ipa, ponto, go to, and easy jack. It is really hard to find an under 6% ipa nowadays. This question really opened my eyes.

 

Toppling Goliath Golden Nugget at 6.0 (just got today)%
Goose Island IPA is decent at 5.9%

 

I personally thought Go To was one of the worst beers I have ever tried. You couldn't pay me to drink that again. All Day is fairly decent. Daytime from Lagunitas is better. Pinner from Oskar Blues is the best session IPA I have had yet.

 

I was gonna say the exact same thing. Sunshine daydream edges out go to. That stuff is amazing at 4.9%

 

Most of my favorite IPAs are over 6% but here are some I drink that are under:
Worthington’s White Shield 5.6% abv
New Belgium’s Mighty Arrow IPA 6.0% ABV
Rogue Brutal IPA, 5.8% abv
Samuel Adams Latitude 48 IPA, 6% abv
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company Golden Nugget IPA, 6.0% abv
Tyranena Bitter Woman IPA 5.7% abv
White Birch Brewing Hop Session Barrel Aged IPA 5% abv

 

If you can't find easy jack out there I will send you some in the summer when its out. Keep me posted with a PM man

 

Moon man

 

Hill Farmstead Citra Pale Ale
Hill Farmstead Edward
Three Floyds Space Station Middle Finger
Le Trèfle Noire Mafia Gibb
Lagunitas Daytime

Those are mostly Pale Ales but yeah...

 

The only actual IPA <6% I rated well was Goose Island IPA (back in '09--stopped buying it since, well you know).

My under 6s:

Union Duckpin (APA)
Half Acre Daisy Cutter (APA)
Citra Mantra (pale lager)

 

Forgot about Thornbridge Jaipur

It's beers like these that lay waste to the myth that hoppy beers don't do well on cask

 

Fat Head's Sunshine Daydream at 4.9
and Terrapin Hi-5 IPA at 5.9
mmmmm

 

Zeelander
Golden Nugget
All Day
Sam Adams Whitewater
SN Golden IPA

Just not a whole lot of IPAs 6% and under I've tried, that's about the list haha.

 

Anchor Liberty
Night Shift Morph
The Tap (Haverhill) Leather Lips
Notch Left of the Dial (though most would call it a "session IPA")

 

Stone go to
Dfh 60 min
Lagunitas day time
Upland campfire

 

60 minute, stone go-to, founders all day

 

You would have had a tough time in India back in the day then. IPAs weren't strong beers, the strongest on record seems to have been around 7% and most were around 5.5%.

All IPAs are by definition Pale Ales. There is no official boundary.Lots of IPAs (eg Bass) were never called anything except Pale Ale.

 

DFH 60 min

 

none ...

if you're under 6%, you're an APA no matter what the label says ...