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

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I was just on a mission to find my favorite West Coast Style IPA to model a beer off, so I drank a good 18 different IPAs (plus a few more on draft). My top 3 were:
  • Bear Republic Racer 5: Modeled my batch after this one...4 classic C-hops...wonderful light and flavorful malt bill!
  • Bell's Two Hearted: It really is a solid grain bill, with some hops mixed with Centennial hops this would be crazy good.
  • Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA: A sleeper pick that stood out to me.
My honorable mention goes to Lagunitas IPA. After a podcast talking about them mashing at 160F I was thinking this beer had to be crazy sweet...but it is a well balance beer...where a lot of IPAs are way to sweet/loaded with crystal.

+1 to Lagunitas IPA, it's a classic
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Interesting thread. It was a dank a dank and hoppy night...

What's the tally up to now?

I tend to like very dank and grassy IPA's. Ones that smell like a week old pile of cut grass.
I wanna shove chinook hop pellets up my nose.

Barrel House Brewing IPA - https://www.barrelhousebrewing.com (no one mentioned this)
Six Points Resin - https://sixpoint.com (only good very fresh)
New Belgium VooDoo Ranger - https://www.newbelgium.com (solid)
Russian River Pliny The Elder - https://russianriverbrewing.com/pliny-the-elder/
Sierra Nevada Hop hunter - https://sierranevada.com/beer/hop-hunter-ipa/ (solid)
Green Flash IPA - https://www.greenflashbrew.com (solid)
Stone IPA - http://www.stonebrew.com (solid)

Lagunitas Born Again (Pale Ale) It might as well be an IPA.
It's my favorite but, since it's a pale it goes down here. :(
https://www.lagunitas.com/beer/born-again-yesterday

Any other suggestions on the dankest of hop fluids?

I made a nice list for my next trip to Total Wine and more but, grassy to some doesn't seem to equate across all taste budz.
 
Bell's - HopSlam
Avery - The Maharaja
Lagunitas - Hop Stoopid
Six Point - Hi-Res or Resin
Knee Deep - Simtra
Green Flash - Palate Wrecker
MadTree - Galaxy High
Edmund's Oast - Viridi Rex
Toppling Goliath - Psuedo Sue
Stone - Ruination 2.0
Jackie O's - Mystic Mama
Firestone Walker - Luponic Distortion No. 10
Cigar City - Jai Alai
Bell's - Two Hearted Ale
Great Lakes - Lake Erie Monster
Anchorage - Star Dragon
Abnormal - Boss Pour
Karl Strauss - Aurora Hoppyalis
Hi-Wire - Hi-Pitch Mosaic
NoDa - Hop, Drop n Roll

But unfortunately I've never tried Pliny or Heady Topper or Zombie Dust.
 
1. Hill Farmstead "Citra" on tap
2. Trillium DDH Congress St. (warm)
3. Treehouse Doubleganger, Julius, Juice Machine (they all taste the same when TH decides to do them correctly. I swear they rotate through one super beer and you end up buying a bunch of each to figure out which one is the king, end rant)
 

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