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Man there are so many good craft IPAs now. A few of my favorites are...
Monkeynaut (Straight to Ale; Huntsville, AL)
Loose Cannon (Heavy Seas; Baltimore, MD)
Two Hearted Ale (Bell's)
I absolutely love Two Hearted. Might be my favorite beer, period, of any style.
Two hearted is very good. Bells is a great brewery. Have you tried there hopslam yet? I've haven't yet but many consider it one of the best beers.
I enjoy the Racer 5 as well along with their Hop rod rye.
Big fan of the Hop stoopid as well as other Lagunitas products (IPA, Brown Sugga, Maximus, Sucks, Little Sumpin Sumpin)
Stone had a real good one with their 12-21-12 end of the world beer.
The Stone Enjoy By... (12/21/12) was actually one of their new IPA series where they release only to certain markets so that they can have the absolute freshest IPA possible. They bottle and ship the same day. The next one is Enjoy By 2/15/13 which is going to parts of the southwest and Midwest.
Yeah, this is really true with craft beers. I remember I pulled a Stone bomber off the shelf at a convenience store in the midwest and it tasted funny, then after reading the bottle realized it was ancient. Some craft beer can get old if the retailer doesn't watch their stock closely...my lesson, check the dates before buying the beer.
The Stone Enjoy By... (12/21/12) was actually one of their new IPA series where they release only to certain markets so that they can have the absolute freshest IPA possible. They bottle and ship the same day. The next one is Enjoy By 2/15/13 which is going to parts of the southwest and Midwest.
Wow! Now that's freshly brewed beer! They are one upping Sam Adams on that.
Actually some great IPA's coming out of Utah of all places. Hop Notch by Uinta Brewery was my go to IPA last summer. Epic has some great ones as well.
There is a little brewery on the Oregon/Idaho border that makes a beer called Leafer Madness. The hop fields are only 20 minutes away so it is a very hoppy IPA.
Actually some great IPA's coming out of Utah of all places. Hop Notch by Uinta Brewery was my go to IPA last summer. Epic has some great ones as well.
There is a little brewery on the Oregon/Idaho border that makes a beer called Leafer Madness. The hop fields are only 20 minutes away so it is a very hoppy IPA.
I actually had the Uinta Dubhe black IPA...wow! That was really good stuff. Creamy, looks like a stout but tastes like an IPA. Very good stuff. Funny that Utah has some really good brews and even distilleries (High West) considering they also have some pretty restrictive liquour laws. Well, as long as they still ship it here I'm cool.
When I was younger, I was into the big West Coast style hop bombs. They were different I suppose, but now I do not drink anything that hoppy or with that many IBUs as I do not see the point anymore. I prefer well balanced IPAs these days.
Off the top of my head:
Bell's Two Hearted
He'Brew Manna Hops (my current all time fave)
Shipyard Fuggle's IPA
Dogfish Head 60 (yup, I prefer the 60 over the 90)
SN Torpedo
Red Hook Long Hammer
Firestone Union Jack
Smuttynose IPA
Cisco Brew Co. Whale's Tale
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