Top 10 Imperial IPAs

Not many people on here have had hop venom (or other PNW IPAs for that matter) because this forum is dominated by those from the east coast and midwest and its draft only.

 

Which ones?

 

1. Mercanary Odell brewing
2. Sucks
3. Oracle
4. Enjoy by
5. Heady topper
6. Chill wave
7. Apex
8. Hop ranch
9. Hop slam
10. Hop juju

 

IIPA is a tough style to get right, so doubt I could name ten. The best of the best:

1) Juju, by a large margin
2) Hop Venom
3) SOSUS

Heady and Pliny aren't close to those three.

 

Top 10 Imperial/Double IPAs

Pliny the Elder
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Firestone Walker Double Jack
Green Flash Road Warrior Imperial Rye IPA
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Saint Archer Brewing Double IPA
Bootlegger's Knuckle Sandwich
Port Brewing Hop 15
Ballast Point Dorado Double IPA
Stone Ruination IPA

 

1. Columbus Bodhi
2. Fat head's hop juju
3. Arctic panzer wolf
4. Lagunitas sucks
5. Green flash palate wrecker
6. Great lakes chillwave
7. Stone enjoy by
8. Lil sumpin extra
9. Sierra Nevada hoptimum
10. Stone ruination

 

No order:

Abrasive
Sosus
Idiot Farm
Simtra
Duet
Alchemy Hour (I like this name better)
Exponential Hoppiness
King Sue
Scream
Cimmerian Sabertooth Berzerker

Nelson, Sucks (first 2), Super IPA

 

CBC Bodhi
Fat Head's Hop Juju
FFF Permanent Funeral
GL Chillwave
CBC Creeper
Heady Topper
Brew Kettle El Lupelo Libre
FFF Arctic Panzer Wolf
Hopslam
FFF Apocalypse Cow

 

No love for La Cumbre on this thread. Project Dank can hang with the best. I've had DIPA's from Alchemist, Russian River, FFF, Lagunitas, Toppling Goliath, Stone, Firestone, Ballast Point, Carton, Fat Heads, Avery, Cigar City, Sixpoint, Pipeworks... Dank is consistently awesome. If you don't now I highly recommend that you check it out.

 

Elevated and Project Dank are single IPAs. This thread is asking you to name your favorite DIPAs.

 

According to my ratings:
1. Dreadnaught
2. Pipeworks SureBet
3. Permanent Funeral
4. The Oracle
5. Heady Topper
6. Hop Juju
7. Brew Kettle El Lupulo Libre
8. Lengthwise Ale Ya
9. Jackie O's Mandala Citra
10. Double Trouble

 

Bell's Hopslam
Lagunitas Sucks
Three Floyds Dreadnaught
Any of the single hop Pipeworks double ipas, formerly the ninja series
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
Great Lakes Chillwave
Avery Maharaja
Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree
Founders Doom
Stone Doube Dry Hopped Ruination

 

Heady Topper
Pliny the Elder
Shape of Hops to Come
On the Wings of Armageddon
Chillwave
Maharaja
Enjoy By
Kane Overhead
Edgar IPA
Hi Res

 

From my ratings:
1. Stone Enjoy By IPA
2. Bell's Hopslam Ale
3. Lagunitas Sucks
4. Pipeworks Galaxy Unicorn
5. FFF Dreadnaught IPA
6. FFF Permanent Funeral
7. New Glarus Thumbprint Scream IIPA
8. Stone Ruination IPA
9. Great Lakes Chillwave Double IPA
10. Fat Heads Hop JuJu Imperial IPA

Never had Heady or Pliny, so I cannot weigh these.

 

Happy to see NEBCO getting getting noticed around the county and on top 10 lists! I can barely get in in CT, even the brewery sells out ( 35 minutes from me)! Locust Reign in Wisconsin??? How did you manage that, my favorite NEBCO DIPA... I have only had it 3 times, it is growlers only when they even brew it.

 

Heady
Pliny the Elder
Simtra
Gandhi
Ephraim
Abner
Dreadnaught
Permanent Funeral
Cap't Lawrence Captain's Reserve
Bodhi

 

No real order. Actually got 13 on this list. Could easily do a top 20.

Russian River - Pliny
Toppling Goliath - Sosus
Alpine - Nelson
LaCumbre - Elevated/project dank
Alchemist - Heady
Comrade (Denver) - Dry Hop Super Damp
Melvin/Thai Me Up - 2x4/4x8
Fat Heads - Hop JuJu
Lagunitas - Sucks
Altamont - Hop Wash
Nebco - Gandhi Bot
Stone - Enjoy By
Ballast Point - Sculpin/Grapefruit Sculpin

 

Sixpoint Resin
Victory Hop Ranch
Heady Topper
Clown Shoes Space Cake
Founders Double Trouble
Double Dose
Victory Dirt Wolf
Sierra Nevada Hop time
Avery Dugana
Lagunitas Sumpin' Extra

More or less in that order

 

Abrasive...10 times.

 

1. Alpine Bad Boy
2. Lagunitas Sucks
3. Societe Roustabout
4. FW Double Jack
5. Alpine Pure Hoppiness