Favorite IPA 6% or under

Can't think of any tweener IPA's I like, most start at 6.4 to 7.4 or so. I hate Session IPA's on the low end as well, this style doesn't lend itself to those kinda ABV levels. Better session styles are English Milds, Bitters etc. Bull City makes terrific brews in these styles under 5%, but you can have my share of those awful IPA session brews.

 

DFH60Min

 

Ozark IPA and Core EZ Living IPA.

 

NEBCO Sea Hag is fantastic even though it's slightly over 6%
Founders All Day is really good
Blue Point Mosaic (keg recipe, not the bottle recipe) is also excellent

 

You're not a big fan of hops but then list Flower Power as something you enjoy?

 

Lag's Daytime

 

Kona Castaway
Founders All Day

 

Daytime for the win just like Wilson to butler

 

Hands down DFH 60 Minute, and those from SEPA will appreciate my next choice......Rock Bottom Prussia's Pride IPA. That was a terrific IPA that I wish they had not taken out of their everyday lineup.

PS: I was at RB last week and they had Prussia's Pride on tap again.........and it was just as terrific but kicked before I got to have a second one

 

TOPPLING GOLIATH:

Golden Nugget
Light Speed
Pseudo Sue

 

Sensi Harvest

 

hey @marquis can u give me a little run down on why Greene King lists an IPA but on this site its considered a bitter? (i assume they both versions of pale ale?) It's only 3.6%. I really wish we had more access to these great english ales. people here in the states pretty much disregard anything under 5% let alone 4%. Oh that cant be an IPA! Its only 4%! sarcasm drips... The pub culture here is much different from my experiences in the UK and is something I wish we had more of.

 

Where to begin? Really in the days before styles were invented and people used names.Sometimes they used different names for the same beer, such as Guinness switching backwards and forwards between Stout and Porter. Same was the case for IPA which was basically a Pale Ale sent to India. Even ordinary Pale Ales were massively hopped (the UK used half the entire world's hop production) and IPAs were generally extra hopped versions.(Porter for India was hopped to similar lengths but nobody seems to care about that even though twice as much Porter was shipped as IPA). Not all IPA brewers bothered to label their IPAs as such, for example Bass IPA was marketed as Pale Ale.
IPA was also marketed at home; domestic IPAs tended to be stronger and less hoppy than the export versions.Export IPA was never strong and had it not been for tax reasons brewers would probably have settled for 4.5% ABV.
Then along came WW1 with its devastating effect on beer strengths , followed by massive tax hikes in the 30s.Practically all beer styles suffered drastically and IPA was no exception.By then it was effectively a synonym for Pale Ale or Bitter.
To distinguish between Pale Ale and Bitter is pointless as the brewers brewed it as Pale Ale but sold it as Bitter because that's what the customers called it.Youngs Ram Brewery were still calling their Bitter "PA" until it closed.
That's why many brewers such as Greene King call their session beer "IPA" , it's not an IPA as generally understood nowadays but it's certainly an IPA as the style had evolved when it was first brewed.
In any case, nobody these days brews anything within a light year of the beers which went to India. Greene King's IPA is no further from a genuine IPA than present West Coast offerings.The style has evolved and in more than one direction.

 

Looking thru the list of beers I've reviewed, only a couple IPA's are below 6%
Scuttlebutt Brewing's Gale Force IPA, 5.25% (and one I get quite frequently)
Boulevard Brewing's Single-Wide IPA, 5.7% (and one I've rarely had)

Certainly, most IPA's are quite stronger.
An interesting thread, and a bit of an eye opener also.

 

Thanks man! i always appreciate your knowledge of history and style evolution. If you have any book recommendations please PM me. Cheers.

 

DFH 60 Minute
Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic
Evil Twin Femme Fatale Brett
Founder's Mosaic
Stone Go To

 

Masala Mama is my favorite. I also really like Mystic's India Wharf.

 

Stateside from 3 Weaver's is excellent. I can't think of a session IPA I enjoy more.

 

Personally, I am not a fan of IPA's 6% and below. They might as well be pale ales, IMHO. I prefer IPAs above 6% and pale ales below 6%.