Calling all IPA lovers...what are your favorite 3?

1. Pliny the younger
2. 90 min IPA
3. Sierra Nevada torpedo

1. Cigar City Jai Alai IPA

I'm so happy to have easy access to Cigar City Brews. It is probably one of the most flavorful IPAs out there. This one does have a low hop profile, but it's still a high class IPA in my book.

Here's my video review on it, if you would like to check it out.



2. Dogfish Head Sqaull IPA <<<no longer exists , but I hear the 75 minute is a great replacement


3. Sweet Water IPA

Firestone Walker Union Jack
Russian River Pliney the Elder
Stone Ruination

This is hard for me because I love so many IPAs for different reasons

1. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA
2. Victory Hop Wallup
3. Dogfish 90 Minute

Sam Adams Double Agent IPL
Sierra Nevada Torpedo Double IPA

longtrail IPA
dogfish head 90min
victory hop wallop

its hard to pick three tho because IPA's are my go to brews

Deschutes Hop Henge
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Alesmith IPA

Honorable mention: Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

I added entries since last reported on pg 30 (post 292). Sorted and pasted below. Always new IPA's being added to this list (15 this time!).

Bells Two Hearted 50
Stone IPA 48
RR-Pliny the Elder 42
DFH 90 39
Stone Ruination 32
Sierra Nevada Torpedo 27
Bear Republic Racer 5 22
Bells Hopslam 19
Sierra Nevada Celebration 18
DFH 60 16
Ballast Point Sculpin IPA 13
Victory Hop Devil 12
Goose Island IPA 12
Green Flash IPA 12
Victory Hop Wallop 12
O'Dells IPA 10
Lagunitas IPA 9
RR-Blind Pig 9
Smuttynose IPA 9
Sweetwater IPA 9
Bridgeport 7
Flying Dog Snake Dog 7
Firestone Union Jack 7
Southern Tier IPA 7
Three Floyd's Dreadnaught 6
Alchemist Heady Topper 6
Ithaca Flower Power 6
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid 6
Avery IPA 5
Founders Double Trouble 5
Great Divide Hercules 5
Great Divide Titan 5
Three Floyd's Alpha King 5
Lagunitas Maximus 5
New Belgium Ranger IPA 5
Port Hop15 5
Surly Furious 5
Boundary Bay Inside Passage Ale 4
Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA 4
Founders Centennial 4
Left Hand: Warrior IPA 4
Ninkasi Total Domination IPA 4
Alesmith IPA 4
RR-Pliny the Younger 4
Ska Modus Hoperandi 4
Troegs Nugget Nectar 4
8 Wired Hopwired IPA 3
Acery&#8217;s IPA 3
Alpine Nelson Rye IPA 3
Arcadia IPA 3
Ballast Point Big Eye 3
Bear Republic Hop Rod IPA 3
Deschutes Inversion 3
Flying Dog Raging ***** 3
Founders Devil Dancer Tripple IPA 3
Founders Red Rye 3
Hair of the Dog Blue Dot 3
Harpoon IPA 3
Hop Ottin' 3
Moylan's HopSicle 3
New Holland Mad Hatter 3
Rouge Yellow Snow IPA 3
Terrapin Hopsecuitioner 3
West Coast IPA 3
Alaskan IPA 3
Cigar City Jai Alai IPA 3
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum 3
Tyranena Bitter Woman IPA 3
Deschutes Hop Henge IPA 3
Abita Jockamo 2
Alpine Duet 2
Bittersweet Lenny IPA 2
Boulevard Single-Wide IPA 2
Breckenridge 471 2
Captian Lawrence Imperial IPA 2
Four Peaks Hop Knot 2
Heavy Seas Loose Cannon 2
Kern River Citra 2
Lakefront Brewery IPA 2
Magic Hat Lucky Kat 2
Mikkeller Single Hop Sauvin 2
Mountain Sun FYIPA 2
Ninkasi Tricerahops 2
Red Hook Longhammer 2
Saint Arnold's Elissa 2
Samuel Smith's IPA 2
Schlafly Export IPA 2
Short's Huma Lupa Licious 2
Sierra Nevada Wet Hop Harvest Ale 2
Southern Tier Gemini 2
Speakeasy Double Daddy 2
Summit IPA 2
Summit Saga IPA 2
Terrapin Hopzilla 2
Central City Red Racer IPA 2
DFH Squall 2
Firestone Walker IPA 2
Long Trail IPA 2
21A Hop Crisis 1
21st Ammendment Brew Free or Die 1
Acme California 1
Avery Maharaja 1
Bear Republic Apex 1
Big Daddy IPA 1
Big Sky IPA 1
Black Raven Trickster 1
Blue Point 10th Anniversary IPA 1
Boulder Mojo 1
Boulevard Double Wide 1
Breakwater Kali Kush 1
Breckenridge 427 1
Brooklyn East IPA 1
Caldera IPA 1
Clown Shoes Hoppy Feet 1.5 1
Coast Brewing Hop Art 1
DC Brau On the Wings of Arnageddon 1
Deschutes Red Chair 1
DFH Burton Baton 1
Diamond Bear IPA 1
Diamond Knot IPA 1
Driftwoods Fat Tug 1
Elysian Jasmine IPA 1
Epic New Zealand 1
Evolution #3 1
Flossmoor Station X-IPA 1
Founders Bravo IPA 1
Founders Cascade IPA 1
GF West Coast 1
Great Basin Ichthyosaur IPA 1
Great Lakes Commodore Perry 1
Great Lakes Erie Monster 1
Hantan Hop Shock 1
Henry's Short Lived IPA 1
Hercules DIPA 1
Heretic Evil-Cousin 1
Hop Wallop 1
HUB Ace of Spades 1
Ice Harbor 1
India Beer 1
Ipswich IPA 1
Kashmir IPA 1
Kern Just Outstanding 1
Kodiak IPA 1
Laguniatas Little Sumpin Wild 1
Leafer Madnes 1
Leefer Madness 1
Left Coast Hop Juice 1
Loose Cannon 1
McMinamins Sunflower IPA 1
Meantime English IPA 1
Michigan High Seas IPA 1
Mikkeler 19 1
Mikkeller 1000 IBU 1
Napa Smith Hopageddon 1
New Glarus Hop Hearty IPA 1
Northern Lights IPA 1
Odell Mercinary 1
Pike 1
Port High Tide 1
Port Wipeout IPA 1
Rocky Mountain IPA 1
Rogue Brutal IPA 1
Rogue Imperial IPA 1
Roots Woody IPA 1
Saranac Imperial IPA 1
Scuttlebutt Gale Force 1
Sierra Nevada Anniversary 1
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA 1
Sixpoint Begali Tiger 1
Sixpoint Resin 1
Ska Euphoria 1
Stone Arrogant Bastard 1
Stone Cali Belgique 1
Stone Subliminally Self Righteous 1
Terminal Gravity 1
Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster 1
Three Heads Kind IPA 1
Toppling Goliath Golden Nugget IPA 1
Town Hall Masala Moma 1
Troegs Perpetual IPA 1
Walking Man Imperial IPA 1
Waschusett IPA 1
Weyerbacher Double Simcoe 1
Widmer Nelson IPA 1
Yards Philly Pale Ale 1
Oso Hopdinger 1
Colombus Brewing IPA 1
Emperyan Mango IPA 1
Great Lakes Crazy Canuck PA 1
Alpine Lips of Faith Super IPA 1
Upland IIPA 1
Boneyard RPM 1
Drake's Hopocalypse 1
Phillips Switchback IPA 1
Fatheads Headhunter 1
Otter Creek Black IPA 1
Chainbreaker White IPA 1
Laguinitas Daytime 1
Unita Crooked Line Detour 1
Sam Adams Double Agent IPL 1

1. Surly Furious
2. Three Floyds Dreadnaught
3. Three Floyds BrooDoo

Honorable mention: Odell IPA, Alpha King, Two Hearted, Town Hall Masala Mama

Favorite three IPAs:
1) Phillips Brewing Company - Hop Circle IPA
2) Noble Pig - Imperialist Pig IPA
3) Tree Brewing Company - Hop Head IPA

Favorite three IIPAs:
1) Howe Sound Brewing Company - Total Eclipse of the Hop IIPA
2) Phillips Brewing Company - Amnesiac DIPA
3) Uhhh... I forgot. Curse you, Amnesiac!

1. Heady Topper (the best beer in the world imo)
2. Pliny the Elder
3. Two Hearted

FFF Zombie Dust
RR Pliny the Elder
Schlafly TIPA

Revolution Anti-Hero
Surly Abrasive
3 Floyd's Zombie Dust

1) Smuttynose finest kind IPA

2) The alchemist heady topper

3) Sierra Nevada torpedo

no particular order.

Two Hearted, Lagunitas Sucks, Prescott Brewing Co Ponderosa.

1. Pliny the elder

2. Racer 5

3. Ballast point Big eye

Has Timber Beast been mentioned yet?

Thor's Brew
Firestone Double Jack
Pliny The Elder
Ruination

Just Outstanding on cask with mosaic hops at Kern River Brewing Company
Zombie Dust
Blind PiG

Russian River Blind Pig
Societe The Apprentice
Ironfire 51/50 IPA

3 Floyd's Zombie Dust
Revolution Anti-Hero
Ska Modus Hoperandi

Heady Topper
Lagunitas Sucks
Snake Handler-got on trade, can't remember the brewery.

Summit Saga
Big Eddy IIPA
Racer 5

Snake handler is brewed at Good People brewing in Birmingham Alabama right down the road from me. Anyways my three are
Bells hopslam
Two hearted ale
Seirra Nevadas celebration ale.

Ska- decadent

Marble- IPA

Victory- maharaja

paliessmann said:

Ska- decadent

Marble- IPA

Victory- maharaja

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******avery- maharaja******* sorry about that

1. Lagunitas Sucks

2. Blue Point Hoptical Illusion

3. Sam Adams Third Voyage

Odell IPA

Ska Modus Hoperandi

Dry Dock USS Enterprise IPA

2 Hearted
Lagunitas Sucks
Surly Furious

Ugh just 3!

Well my two cents goes as follows!
1. Hopslam
2. Bells 90
3. Stone IPA

Never had pliney! Would love to try it have some hopslam and willing to trade!

Top 3, in no particular order

Citra Ninja (Pipeworks)
Lagunitas Sucks
3 Floyd's Zombie Dust

It's been about two weeks since my last post, and two of my top three have changed. Nice two weeks

1. FFF Zombie Dust
2. Surly Furious
3. Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

I'm guessing I'll be back here to revise my top three in March when I'm getting some Heady Topper via trade. Looks like I should try to find some Lagunitas Sucks as well.

Any of them that are an IPA.

But seriously, DFH 60, DFH 75, and DFH 90.

If I can't pick 3 from the same brewery, DFH 75, Sweetwater, and Lagunitas Sucks

Sucks has definitely been my favorite IPA as of late, but this weekend a friend is bringing me 2 four packs of Heady Topper. :rockin:

Going all Vermont

* Lawson's Finest Double Sunshine (followed by Triple Play IPA and Kiwi)
* Hill Farmstead Double Galaxy (followed by Abner & Susan)
* HT (long live El Jefe)

California has been the leader for the best IPAs for a long time, but the New England region is producing some ridiculously high rated IPAs lately.

I just talked to my Heady Topper connection, and I might be able to get some Lawson's and Hill Farmstead as well. This might be a holy weekend of IPA.

In order:

Firestone - Union Jack
Green Flash - West Coast IPA
Bear Republic - Racer 5

Honorable mention, Dogfish 60 min

Doubles:
Stone - Ruination
Russian River - Pliny the Elder
Knee deep - Hoptologist

Honorable mention, Drakes Denogginizer

Sweetwater IPA
Two hearted
DFH60

And Lagunitas Sucks (clone is dry hopping now, can't wait!!!)

In no particular order...

Lagunitas Maximus
Snake River Pako's IPA
Firestone Walker Union Jack

My 3 favorite are

Drakes, Hopocalypse
Karl Strauss, Tower 20
Dogfish Head, 90 min