Post Your Top 5 IPA's/DIPA's

Ruination
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Enjoy By
Hop Stoopid
Hoptimum

 

I've only recently begun exploring IPAs, having clung rather single-mindedly for some time to a devotion to Belgian dark ales...but here's my list based on what I've had so far. In no particular order:

Maine Beer Co. Lunch
Ballast Point Sculpin
Stone Enjoy By
Jack's Abby 2nd Anniversary (yeah, it's an IPL, so sue me. It's also sodding delicious.)
Stone RuinTen

 

Nelson
Kern Citra
Heady
Hopfather
Hopslam

 

The one's that come to mind:

1. Deep Ellum IPA
2. DFH 60 Minute IPA
3. Green Flash West Coast IPA
4. Breckinridge 471 IPA
5. Stone IPA

 

Love the avatar.

 

If I did this as a pie chart, you wouldn't be able to see anything except my first pick----everything else would just be a sliver.

1. Zombie Dust (screw you, it's an IPA and everyone knows it)
2. Lagunitas Sucks!
3. Central Waters Illumination
4. Alpha King (see above)
5. Stone 14th Anniversary Emperial IPA

It's genuinely hard for me to rank anything after Sucks; the last three are pretty much interchangeable. Honorary mention to Anchor Humming Ale---which is far more of an IPA/APA straddler than either Alpha King or Zombie Dust. Also Hopslam, on its good days anyway, and Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale.


I am obviously very much a fan of the more tropical fruit flavors in my hoppy beers, probably with pine second. I have grown more fond of grapefruit flavors but I still find it more bitter than others. Chinook has a very special place in my heart, I just love that unique spicy flavor, but you really have to be careful with it.

 

Bells Hopslam
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
Avery Maharaja
Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster
Mad River Steel Head Double IPA

 

Anchorage Bitter Monk
Brewfist Spaceman
Mikkeller Invasion IPA
Port Mongo
Port Wipeout

 

My top 5 IPA's and DIPA's in no particular order:

IPA
Stone IPA
Ballast Point Sculpin IPA
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
The Brew Kettle White Rajah
Founders Centennial IPA

Honorable Mention: Great Divide Titan IPA

DIPA
Stone Enjoy By IPA
Great Lakes Alchemy Hour
Odell Myrncenary
Stone Ruin10
Dogfish Head 90min IPA

Honorable Mention: Ninkasi Tricerahops Double IPA

 

IPA's
Celebration
Sucks
Jai Alai
Ethos
Saga

DIPA's
Dreadnaught
Duhbe
Enjoy by (on tap it's insane)
Lake Erie Monster
Hopslam (I'll give it another chance this year)

 

So good, I work two miles away. Awesome

 

i've only had it once at a festival. very limited distribution would hurt them in this forum, though i tip my hat to them for servicing the local community first.

 

Omnipollo - Nebuchadnezzar
Green Flash - Palate Wrecker
Boneyard - Hop Venom
Stone - RuinTen
Firestone Walker - Double Jack

Would've listed Boneyard - Armored Fist, but it's classified as a CDA...

 

HF Abner
Heady Topper
HF Double Galaxy
Lawsons Double Sunshine
Smuttynose Finestkind (my first love)

 

IPA:
Crooked Tree
Founders Harvest
Union Jack
AleSmith IPA
Two Hearted

IIPA:
PtE
90 min
Hopslam
Aww Jeah
Hop Stoopid

 

1. Abrasive Ale
2t. Pliny the Elder
2t. Pliny the Younger
4. Double Jack
5. Duet IPA

 

Heady Topper
Surly Abrasive Ale
Stone Ruination 10th/RuinTen
Cigar City Jai Alai
La Cumbre Elevated IPA

... sadly 4 out of 5 are not available in my market and the other is limited/seasonal

 

I'm gonna have to squeeze 7 into 5. But 5 breweries at least.

Pliny
Abrasive/Furious
Heady
Ruinten/Enjoy By
Sucks

Runner up/darkhorse: Odell IPA and Mercenary

 

Flying Fish Exit 16
Long Trail Unfiltered IPA
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Climax IPA

 

Dreadnaught
permanent funeral
citra ninja
enjoy by
hopslam