Top 10 Imperial IPAs

No love for Burton Baton? It's great stuff!

 

1. Hoptimum
2. Chillwave
3. Burton Baton
4. Double Jack
5. GL Lake Erie Monster
6. Enjoy By
7. Batch 471
8. 90 Minute
9. Maximus
10. 2XIPA

 

Love your list! #10 way to malty and overrated for me! I'd put MBC Dinner in there! Awesome list in that I only don't like one of them out of ten! (must be on the same taste level)!

 

No order:

RoughTail 1st Anniversary Ale
Mother's Super Doozy
Lagunitas Sucks
RoughTail Hoptometrist
Stone Enjoy By 04.20.14
Firestone Union Jack
Green Flash Green Bullet
Avery The Maharaja
RoughTail IPA
Mother's Doozy

Lots of repeats on other people's lists I would like to try, but I'm happy with what I've got access to.

 

http://www.beeradvocate.com/lists/style/140/

I've had the top 2... But haven't tried the next 15.

 

Not a trader or world traveler, but from my reviews:

Captain Lawrence Captain's Reserve
Sixpoint Hi-res
Stone RuinTen
Tree House/Toppling Goliath David
Alchemist Heady Topper
Hill Farmstead Double Galaxy
Grey Sail Captain's Daughter
Victory DirtWolf
Bell's Hopslam
Dogfish Head Burton Baton

Honorable mentions:

Oskar Blues G'knight
Trillium Mettle
Evil Twin Molotov Cocktail/Molotov Lite
21st Amendment Hop Crisis
Jack's Abby trIPL

 

I've rated 41 Double IPA's. Out of that small sample set:
1)Green Flash West Coast IPA
2)Russian River Pliny The Elder
3)New Holland Hopslam
4)Lagunitas Sucks
5)Lagunitas A Little Sumpin' Extra! Ale
6)Dogfish Head Robert Johnsons Hellhound On My Ale
7)Stone Enjoy By IPA
8)Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
9)Founders Doom
10)Lagunitas Maximus
Jeez. Guess I I like Lagunitas much more than I knew.

 

Add Second Fiddle to my list.

Wow, that is one amazing double.

 

Sitting @ 48/Top 60 after a hunt that I kind of burned out on. My list:

King Sue
Locust Reign
Double Galaxy
Double Sunshine
SS4
Mastermind
SS6
SS5
Dinner
Very Green

Honorable mentions to recent Haze, Sosus, Nebco Fat Ten Er 2 and Coriolis
Dishonorable mentions (bottom of the "elite DIPA" category IMO) to Captains Daughter, Perm Funeral and OTWOA

 

1) RR - Pliny
2) Alpine - Nelson
3) Lawson - Double Sunshine
4) Societe - The Pupil
5) Alpine - Duet
6) FFF - Permanent Funeral
7) Kern River - Citra
8) Pipeworks - Ninja v Unicorn
9) Alpine - Keen Idea
10) Stone - Enjoy By

 

In no particular order....

LFL Double Sunshine
LFL Triple Sunshine (on tap)
Surly Abrasive
Heady Topper
Alchemist Crusher
HF Abner
HF S&S 6
2nd Fiddle
NebCo Coriolis
MBC Dinner

10 really isn't enough. Other notables are TH Haze, NebCo G-Bot, HF Ephraim, HF Double Citra, Kern Double Citra,
LFL Sip, Foley Fair Maiden, Mastermind, Trillium Heavy Mettle, & NebCo locust Reign.

Yes, I've had all of these and most mentioned Cali beers. I have had both PtE and Blind Pig on draft and in bottles less than 2 weeks old. Just don't think they hold a candle to those on this list.

 

1) Enjoy by 4/20/14
2) Heady Topper
3) Double Duckpin
4) Double Jack
5) Sucks
6) 90 minute
7) Sumpin Extra
8) Burton Baton
9) Hop Stoopid
10) Evo Lot 6

 

In no particular order (except I think this may be the particular order) .....

1. Abrasive
2. PTE
3. Sucks
4. TG Sosus
5. Permanent Funeral
6. Double Daisy Cutter
7. Enjoy By .....
8. Heady
9. Unsessionable
10. Scream
10. Dreadnaught
10. Hopslam
10. 90 Minute
10. Apocalypse Cow

 

Tree House Haze
Fiddlehead Mastermind
Alchemist Heady
NEBco Gandhi Bot
NEBco Coriolis
HF Abner
HF Double Citra
Neshaminy Shape of Hops to Come
Lawsons _____ Sunshine (have only had double once and loved it but don't feel that's enough sample size to put it on my list, really like Sip a lot too though so either of them fit here)
Lawsons Kiwi

 

I'll play:

1. Abrassive
2. Hopslam
3. DirtWolf
4. Enjoy By
5. Sucks
6. Double Trouble
7. Cafe Racer 15
8. Double Jack
9. Hop Ranch
10. Ruination

Honorable mention: Palate Wrecker, Torpedo, RuinTen

 

Where's hop venom??

 

1 king sue
2 heady topper
3 permanent funeral
4 pliny the elder
5 sosus
6 idiot farm
7 abrasive
8 war mullet
9 sucks
10 scream

my turn johnson

 

1- Hop Crisis - 21st Amendment
2- Burton Baton - Dogfish
3- Bootleg Fireworks - Baxter
4- Leviathan - Harpoon
5- Molotov Cocktail - Evil Twin
6- Resin - Sixpoint
7- Enjoy By IPA - Stone
8- Hopslam - Bell's
9- Dirt Wolf/Hop Ranch - Victory
10- Detour - Uinta

Note: All of my entries are higher than 8.5% ABV

 

Some of you really need to introduce yourself to New England DIPAs. I've had several of the highly rated midwest/west coast DIPAs and literally none of them don't stand a chance against any IPA made by Alchemist, NEBCO, LFL, HF, etc.

The best IPA from the west coast by a mile IMO is Alpine Nelson (one of the best IPAs in the world according to me) and that's a single so it doesn't warrant listing in this thread.

I realize that people living in most of the country can't easily get their hands on the elite New England beers very easily. It must be damn near impossible for people in other regions to land Coriolis, Rapture, Crusher, Double Sunshine, HF Double Citra/Galaxy, Locust Reign, etc. but I feel fortunate to live within driving distance of most of my favorite breweries.

 

Add Trillium to this list!