IPA: Lunch Flower Power Union Jack Perpetual Sculpin DIPA: Heady Topper Pliney 10th Anniversary Ruination Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Gandhi-Bot
In no particular order: IPA Two Hearted Ale Founder's Harvest Furious Green Flash IPA Racer 5 DIPA Hopslam Pliny the Elder Abrasive FFF Rye'da Tiger Double Trouble/Devil Dancer
IPA Blind Pig Alpine Duet Just outstanding size 7 2hearted DIPA Myrcenary PTE Abrasive Illumination Double Jack
My Fav 5 IPA Sierra Nevada Celebration Smuttynose Finest Kind Bells Two Hearted Ale Bear Republic Racer 5 Victory HopDevil Fav 5 Double IPA DogFish Head 90 Minutes Hebrew Lennys RIPA Harpoon Leviathan IPA Samuel Adams Third Voyage Flying Dog Double Dog
IPA: FFF - Zombie Dust (APA) Two Hearted 90 Min Founders - Centennial Bear Republic Racer 5 DIPA: Dreadnaught PTE Heady Topper Double Sunshine Ninja V Unicorn
Off the top of my head?.. Some or all have likely been mentioned already but... Odell IPA Racer 5 Red Racer Sculpin Two Hearted Abrasive Pliny the Elder Dry Dock Seven Seas Myrcenary Dreadnaught
IPA Ballast Point Sculpin Drake's Aroma Coma Green Flash West Coast IPA Bear Republic Racer 5 SN Celebration Ale DIPA RR Pliny the Younger RR Pliny the Elder SN Hoptimum Green Flash Palate Wrecker Stone Ruination
When I'm craving that signature pine/citrus-hop IPA flavor, these are my 5 (+1) favorite IPAs - in alphabetical order: Ballast Point's Sculpin IPA Breckenridge's 471 IPA Founders' Centennial Founders' Double Trouble Green Flash's Palate Wrecker Shipyard's XXXX IPA ...BUT, based on the style classifications on BA and the reviews/scores I've done/given, it seems my true favorite IPAs are not typical IPAs... Belgian: Hop God Reserve (more like a BSPA? - reminds me of a Duvel more than an IPA) Piraat (nothing at all like other IPAs in taste - a real gem, and one of my all-time faves) American: SN's Torpedo (slightly more along the lines of an American strong ale) Imperial: DFH Burton Baton (that barrel-aging creates a unique taste) DFH's 90 minute IPA (chewier and maltier than most) *Honorable mention: TIPA (triple IPA): Founders' Devil Dancer (is there even another triple IPA?) Cheers!
IPA: Nelson, Duet, Just Outstanding, The Pupil, Blind Pig DIPA: Double Nelson, Bad Boy, PP Carlsbad Poorman's IPA, Lagunitas SF Fusion, Double Jack
Odell Myrcenary Avery Maharaja Oskar Blues Deviant Dales Ithica Flower Power Firestone Walker Union Jack
Dude, how does it feel to be so much better/way too good for DFH? You're just too cool fo' skool! You should send Sam some of your own masterful proprietary recipes, so he can finally learn how it's done by the pros.
No order.... IPA: AleSmith IPA Ballast Point Sculpin Ithaca Flower Power FW Union Jack Cigar City Jai Alai DIPA: FW Double Jack Lagunitas Hop Stoopid Southern Tier Unearthly(Oak Aged) Capt. Lawrence Captain's Reserve Wachusett Larry
Dude... Come on people... Maybe you guys have not had this stuff. More than five but the best!!! (no particulare order): Kern Citra Hopslam Knucklesandwitch Nelson Kern Just outstanding Knee Deep Simtra Bad boy Hoppy Birthday Heady Topper
FWIW (unordered list): IPAs - Stone IPA, Sculpin, Big Eye, Racer 5, Smuttynose DIPAs - Pliny, Maharaja, Hoptimum, Lagunitas Sucks, Deschutes Hop Henge
In no real order: Hopslam Two Hearted Heady Topper (this is crack and I need more) Lakefront (always can get it fresh and for $8, can't go wrong with that) Zombie Dust (though I only had it on tap once, but damn, really wish I could grab a 6er sometime somehow, those 5 pints were NOT enough) I haven't had many of the BA favorites such as any of the HF brews, Pliny, etc. One day, I suppose.
there was a thread like this a couple weeks ago but i'll give it another go 1 Zombie dust 2 zombie dust 3 zombie Dust 4 Zombie Dust 5 ZOMBIE DUST
1.) Pliny the Elder 2.) Drake's- Aroma Coma 3.) Kern River-Just Outstanding 4.) Citra 5.) Alpine Brew-Bad Boy(DIPA) Triples(Bonus points) 6.) Houblon Chouffe 7.) Knee Deep-Simtra
Combining is hard, as i will be unable to mention many fantastic beers: Bell's Hopslam Three Floyd's Dreadnaught (only had it once, sad) Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale Founder's Harvest Ale Bell's Two Hearted Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Well, that's six, and I am leaving off fantastic beers from Surly, Odell and Stone.
I had Troeg's Perpetual IPA this weekend for the first time thanks to a trade from a great BA here (You know who you are... Thanks for the Evo Lot#3 and Dogfish Head 120, also!). I agree that it's up there with your post. As for my Top 5 which is changing all the time... Except for Heady Topper Alchemist - Heady Topper New England Brewing Co. - Ghandi Bot Green Flash - Imperial IPA Ithaca - Flower Power Troeg - Perpetual IPA
I tried to point this out in the first page of this thread but Zombie Dust is classified as an American Pale Ale. This thread is about IPA/DIPAs.
I had one last night and maybe I got some that was too old or something but there was hardly any flavor to Flower Power.
The latest batch is ticked for January on the side of the bottle. When it's fresh it's a mango/guava hoppy bomb.
lol, I've heard this before. I stand by my statement zombie dust blows all other ipa's/dipa's out of the water
1. My homebrewed "house" DIPA 2. Whatever other homebrewed IPA/DIPA I have on tap 3. Fathead's Head Hunter 4. Ithaca Flower Power 5. Lagunitas Sucks
On my list of hads looking fwd to trying many more! DIPA Southern Tier 2xIPA Dogfish 90 Firestone Double Jack Founders Devil Dancer Victory Hop Wallop IPA Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Ithaca Flower Power Firestone Union Jack Sculpin Deviant Dales
In no order: Duet Topper Pliny Two Hearted Hoponius Union (ok, so it's a lager, but I don't know of a class for IPLs)
Man, lots of east coast stuff here, I'll represent some West Coast, as that's mainly what I've had outside of a few beer festivals, and we obviously can hold our own as well. My top 5 IPAs: Odell IPA Racer 5 Elysian Idiot Sauvin Deschuttes Inversion Port Wipeout double IPA's: Odell Myrcenary Avery Dugana Flying Dog Raging Bitch Pliny (younger or Elder) Stone Sublimely Self Righteous
Awww, what? You have a hard-on for DFH and my post offended you and your big beer god Sam? Sooo sowey, so sowey. Hey bro, want some hops with that malt you be drinking?
1. Phillips Amnesiac Double IPA 2. Stone Ruination 3. Odell Myrcenary 4. Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye 5. Southern Tier 2XIPA 1. Phillips Hop Circle IPA 2. Central City Red Racer IPA 3. Sierra Nevada Celebration 4. Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA 5. Anderson Valley Hop Ottin' IPA
DIPA: 1. Hill Farmstead could easily just take all top 5, but I'll put them all in a tie for #1 -- 1a - Abner 2a - Double Galaxy 3a - Society & Solitude #4 4a - Ephraim 5a - Nor 5b - Double Citra 2. Heady Topper 3. Double Sunshine 4. Kern River Citra 5. Founders Double Trouble Honorable Mentions: Boy King, Dreadnaught, Galactic Double Daisy Cutter Overrated but still good - Pliny the Elder IPA: 1. Holy Cow 2. Sculpin 3. Blind Pig 4. Kern Just Outstanding 5. Smuttynose Finestkind Left a TON of great IPAs out. There are just way too many good IPAs out there to do a top 5.
A blind tasting of these styles led me to: 1. HFS Abner 2. Heady Topper 3. Surly Abrasive 4. Alpine Nelson 5. MBC Lunch Honorable mentions: Pliny, Sculpin, Flower Power, and Society & Solitude 4.
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