Who's brewing the best IPAs right now?

Treehouse and Trillium are easily leading the way for me. Green is the GOAT and Vicinity is my favorite offering from Trillium. The best local to me though is Tired Hands. They are absolutely crushing the hoppy game as well. Alien Church (amongst many others) is fantastic!

 

In no particular order:

• Lone Pint - Yellow Rose
• Carton - 077XX, 07871 (Mosaic)
• Hoof Hearted - Roller Blabe

 

Foam Brewers, Burlington Vermont

 

My favorite IPA that I can (sometimes) get my hands on in my area is Creature Comforts Tropicalia. Fantastic beer that flies off the shelves down here.

 

Trillium

 

Firestone Walker (Double Jack), Ballast Point (Sculpin and Big Eye), Deschutes (Inversion IPA), Sierra Nevada (Hoptimum), Blackfoot River (Single Malt IPA), Stone (Ruination 2.0), Alpine (Exponential Hoppiness this one is Liquid Sex in a bottle) I could go on and on so many fine Breweries out there now .

 

Haven't had the opportunity to try a number of the ones raved about but Pipeworks Lizard King and Ninja vs Unicorn were both damn good.

 

Locally: Noble Ale Works, Modern Times, Societe, and El Segundo around these parts. And an honorable mention to Pizza Port. Cheers!

 

here comes the new england circle jerk.

 

Melvin from Jackson, WY is way up there. Odd 13 is starting to make some killer stuff as well. La Cumbre makes great IPAs. Unfortunately they are fairly easy to acquire in CO so the hype train hasn't left the station.

Also a shout out to Grimm Artisan Ales, some of their IPAs have been incredible (the ones I have tried)

 

I've been blessed with folks nice enough to send me Other Half offerings, and from what I've had from them, they are a notch above other great breweries I've enjoyed lately. Haven't had much from further up NE, but basing my thoughts just on what I've had.

Being said, there's dozens of "1A's" that I could list..... IPAs and DIPAs that give me pause seem to be more abundant now than even one year ago, which is certainly a wonderful thing!

 

I'm going to throw out some randoms, because people have already named the obvious ones..

Aslin
The Veil
Monkish

 

Exactly the same style.. Super hazy, super juicy, reduced bitterness.

 

I can't argue with the Treehouse/Trillium fans. Some of the local 'B-squad' brews here are great for me because I can always get them without a line. Those include Idletyme, any Foley Bros. and Foam

 

That's fair, I guess, since we all jumped on Chicago/MIdwest when your beers were all the rage and you all were so full of yourselves. Years ago.

 

Sadly, no. What sucks is that I live right outside Richmond, work in Richmond, but Tuesdays (release days) are the absolute worse days for me, so no chance of getting there. Can't get into town on the weekends to have a few at eh bar due to kid activities, so basically since the Veil has opened, it has been one huge p#%*tease to me...... I also hate the idea of having to trade for something out of town to pull of an IP trade for in-town beer!!!