Looking for Piney IPAs

Bear Republic Racer 5 seemed to have plenty of pine.
Local option for me with pine is Tyranena Bitter Woman.

 

That's pretty mean.

 

I don't think I am going to have anything to contribute other than to present a personal paradox.

Here it is:
When I first started drinking IPA's, they were all piney tasting to me. Some were so piney it seemed as though I was drinking Pine Sol. After a few months and drinking various IPA's that piney flavor seemed to go away and all I could sense were more citrus, tropical and fruity notes. For a few years, I've tasted very little to no pine at all in any IPA regardless of which hops are used. I do however still taste the Onion/Garlic in some IPA's.

 

Ballast Point Dorado Double IPA is piney as hell. Too piney for my liking.

 

Enjoy By

 

These have been mentioned before:

Three Heads The Kind IPA (Not sure of NJ distribution)
Stone IPA
Sixpoint Resin
Torpedo
Cortland Industrial IPA (Dont think its NJ distributed, sorry)

 

Sixpoint Resin for sure, and I second Weyerbacher Double Simcoe!

Oh yeah, and another vote for Sixpoint Bengali Tiger!

 

I don't have a clue what brews from the West and Midwest get out to the East, but I'd dare assume that NJ would get a majority of the nationally distributed ones. If the beers I've listed aren't available to you, they are certainly worth trading for. All "piney-side" IPA's, IMO.

Lagunitas Sucks! (which is like drinking a pine tree in a bottle)
Three Floyds Arctic Panzer Wolf
Bell's Hopslam
Ska Decadent
Founders Devil Dancer

 

I'm not sure if Golden Road Brewing makes it out to NJ, but if you can find Golden Road Brewing's - Wolf Among Weeds, you'd probably did it. Golden Road also has a limited release of Heal the Bay IPA exclusively sold at Whole Foods which is very piney too, and hop forward. Lacks back end complexity IMO though.

Of course, Stone's Enjoy By as well - piney greatness!

 

Red Racer IPA is the first one that comes to mind. It's like a pine tree in a can. A very delicious, resinous, hoppy pine tree. An underappreciated, but pretty widely available IPA.

 

I don't get a lot of pine with Sucks. Instead, I find it delicious at first, but then kind of turned off by how fruity it is. It's like a mango overload that could actually use some more pine or some other spicy nuance.

 

Alaskan IPA is easy to find and has a good pine flavor.

 

Unita Hop Notch IPA, New Belgium Ranger IPA, SN Torpedo and Hoptimum are all good piney brews.

 

Most IPAs have som epiney aromas in them.
Lagunitas Sucks isn't piney at all imo.

Best example for me is Ska Brewing Modus Hoperandi. Straigt piney delicious IPA.

Stone IPA and Sierra Nevada Torpedo also has some pine.

 

I think your best bets that are available in jersey are stuff like victory hop devil or hop wallop, stone ruination, Ballast point dorado double ipa. My beer store has recently started carrying brews from Port Brewing out in Cali and I've found that their mongo IPA and wipeout IPA are quite good. Many of the suggestions that have been made like surly or three Floyd's are only available in one or two states and they are in the central US. So difficult for us in NJ to get our hands on. Also check out Kane brewing locally here in jersey, they don't really bottle but you can catch their beer on draft head high is really good (ipa) and overhead (double ipa) is even better.

 

All easy to get stuff too for NJ, Hop Devil, Torpedo, Smuttynose, Modus.

 

Get yourself a Port Hop 15 if you can still find one. Bitter, dank, pine, citrus, got it all. Doubled.