Recommend a DIPA that isn't sweet.

Mikkeller 1000 IBU ultramate!

 

I agree on Dirtwolf as just tried it for the first time last month on draft and it was really well done. Agree with Enjoy by too and just went with Ruination as it's more accessible to a broader market

 

Ruination is your best bet. 7.7 percent doesn't leave that much Unfermented sugars behind.

 

Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Founders Double Trouble
Sierra Nevada Torpedo and Hoptimum
Stone RuinTen. Enjoy By is a little sweet to me but not too cloying.
Bear Republic Hop Rod
Hop Stoopid is sweet to me, but much different than the brown sugar sweetness of Lagunitas Sucks (and IPA, Lil Sumpin, and Maximus )


Most IIPAs just taste sweet compared to many 6.5-7.7% IPAs to me. If you haven't tried one in a while, you may like fresh American (Hoppy) Strong Ales such as fresh Bigfoot or Green Flash Barleywine. The deep caramel/toffee sweetness is much less cloying to me than the grape-y sweetness I get from some pale malts at that gravity.

 

I couldn't get through a Sucks this year. It was too sweet for me as well. I'm drinking Gandhi Bot now and enjoy it for an accessible (to me at least) DIPA. I probably wouldn't hunt it down though, so this probably isn't very helpful here

 

the problem with DIPA's is the amount of malt/sugar required to get the ABV up there tends to allow for a much sweeter profile.

I would stick to high-ABV IPAs, like Ballast Point Sculpin. That's not sweet at all, it's awesome. Ithaca Flower Power at (I believe) 7.5% is another killer one that's not too sweet.

If DIPA's are a must, then perhaps Weyerbacher Double Simcoe would work for you. It's a great, piney hop bomb. Or try to get your hands on an Auburn Alehouse Isotope PU240 - I just drank & reviewed it yesterday. AWESOME old-school (non-sweet) DIPA with loads of hops.

 

If you can get Short's I recommend The Liberator. Also Green Flash Palate Wrecker not all that sweet, got one on deck now. Hopsickle also not sweet if you get Bear Republic. Smuttynose Big A not sweet.

 

I love flower power. That's my go-to IPA that's always in the refrigerator

 

Odell Myrcenary

 

I prefer these to most listed so far, with the exception of Hoptimum (love it, haven't seen it around lately).







This IPA is damn near 7%, but is it a DIPA? I don't think it is, but I bought a case and it's so damn good and fresh I went back and bought another one.

 

River Horse Hopalotamus doesn't taste like anything... so there's that.

 

Definitely 90 Minute

 

Exponential Hoppiness or CCB Humidor Series IPA. Both are so dry you need a glass of water afterward.

 

Palate Wrecker, Ruination, Dogfish Head 75 minute.

 

Stone Ruination

 

I second Palate Wrecker... Hoptimum as well.

 

Can't believe I forgot 90 minute! The sweetness/malt of it comes across as more of a strong ale to me. Not cloying at all, just savory.

 

Green flash imperial and palate wrecker

 

Funny that I see a lot of Palate Wrecker suggestions; I thought that beer was extreme in both areas of malty sweetness and hoppiness! To each their own, of course.

I'd suggest DFH 90, Stone Ruination, or Lagunitas Hop Stoopid.

 

I'd actually like to hear what sweet DIPA's are out there as I find most not sweet at all.