Top 3 IPAs

Enough of these damn threads. Theres a new one every week and the answers are always the same.

 

Heady Topper
Double Sunshine
Abner

 

I do not know, because I do not know what I am in the mood for when I want an IPA because it is such a wide open palate space for me in what I am seeking out with it when I am in an IPA mood, and there always seems to be an IPA that I haven't drank. Either yet because it is new to me. OR, that I haven't had in a while. Which also means, I actively despise threads like these because they are pointless. Because it does not matter. That beer I haven't had yet. I have not had yet.
And that beer might be really good.

 

Have you ever tried Ghandi-Bot?

 

Pliny would be in my top 5, Dirtwolf is in my top 20, but my top 3 so far:

Ephraim
Heady
Dreadnaught

This may change tonight when I pop open a fresh Dinner thanks to my man Stum-pub

 

Hop Ranch was very tropical tasting when it was young. It wasn't a beer that aged well and it seemed like a month after bottling it got very grassy/onion like. I liked it a lot more on tap than bottle, where as it's the opposite for me with Dirtwolf. I like Dirtwolf a lot less on tap.

 

Take note that I haven't had the pleasure to try Pliny, Heady and the other Vermont beers, or some other highly rated IPA/IIPAs. However, my current favorites are, but not limited to:

IPA:
-Head Hunter
-Flower Power
-Two Hearted

IIPA:
-HopSlam
-Hop Stoopid
-ChillWave

Notice most of these are year round offerings. Go figure...

 

Head Hunter
Lake Erie Monster
Columbus IPA

 

Cigar City Jai Alai ( & Humidor Series IPA )
FSW Double Jack
Gandhi-Bot

HM - RR Pliny the Elder, Ballast Point - Sculpin, Sixpoint Hi-Res ( & Resin ), Lagunitas Maximus
Yet to try HT

 

So, as often is the case, I'm a total homer about this -

PTE
Hop Stoopid
Sucks

 

Titan
Two Hearted
Mo

 

Citra-kern river
King sue- toppling goliath
Double sunshine- lawsons

 

Hill Farmstead Ephraim
Lagunitas Sucks
FFF Zombie Dust (technically a Pale Ale, but others would agree that this is in fact an IPA)

 

Knuckle Sandwich
Enjoy By
Sucks

Tried dirtwolf WAY over rated in my opinion

 

Let's cover all the bases shall we?

Pale ales:
Zombie Dust
Daisy Cutter
Mo

Session IPAs:
Carton Boat
Great Divide Lasso
Stone Go To

IPA's

Kane Head High
Blind Pig
Lunch

Doubles
Pliny
Chillwave
Dirtwolf

 

First time I traded, I traded New Glarus fruit beers for brews from Cigar City brewery. You should have no problem trading brews from Cigar City; considering you have access to them in FL of course.

 

Definitely subjective. I do believe there to be a top 2 (I'm talking double ipa's), and then a #3 that rotates depending on your given taste at the time. After all, we all know how many outstanding IPAs and DIPA's exist these days. For me, it's the universally accepted Heady Topper and Pliny the Elder for the top 2. Still. And number 3, is a fresh Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum. Goood.

Heady
Pliny E
Hoptimum

 

Double or half double IPAs!

Hop drop n roll
Elevated
Gandhi bot
Freak of nature

Not 3, but 4.

 

Whoever is adding Pliny to the list must be over the hill. I can name 20 ipas better

 

This is what I think. NoDa's Hop Drop'n Roll is utterly delicious, but I'll vie for it only casually.