Beer Style: India Pale Ale
The Alchemist: Focal Banger clone
While the recipe for Focal Banger has been known to change over the years, the hop combo has been one thing that hasn’t changed.
Mayflower Brewing Company: Mayflower IPA clone
Mayflower describes this beer as balancing a, “powerful hop profile with full malt flavor to create a smooth brew with well-rounded bitterness.”
Ithaca Beer Company: Flower Power IPA clone
According to Ithaca Beer Co.’s website, “Enjoy the clover honey hue and tropical nose. Simultaneously Punchy and soothing with a big body and a finish that boasts pineapple and grapefruit. Flower power is hopped and dry-hopped five different times throughout the brewing and fermentation process.”
Fort George Brewery: Suicide Squeeze IPA clone
This beer was brewed as a collaboration with Seattle’s Suicide Squeeze records. It is packed with Mosaic® and Citra® hops.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Union Jack clone
According to Firestone Walker’s Brewing Co.’s website “This aggressively hopped West Coast IPA showcases stunning pineapple, citrus and piney aromas along with exceptional dry hop flavors of grapefruit and tangerine. This intense brew finds its balance in hone-like pale malt sweetness. The name Union Jack is a nod to the colonial origins of the IPA style, and to the British expatriate who co‐founded our brewery.”
Bale Breaker Brewing Company: Top Cutter IPA clone
Bale Breaker’s flagship IPA is a well-balanced West Coast IPA that boasts a complex floral, citrus aroma.
Odell Brewing Company: Peach IPA clone
Odell Brewing Company, in Fort Collins, Colorado brews the majority of its beers on a 50-barrel system, however brewers still put to use a 5-barrel pilot system at the brewery every week. This recipe (not to be confused with their seasonal imperial peach IPA Tree Shaker) was one of those pilot batches made available at the tasting room.
BrewDog Punk IPA clone
Punk IPA clone BrewDog, Scotland (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.056 FG = 1.015 IBU = 35 SRM = 3 ABV = 5.6% Ingredients 11.6 lbs. (5.3 kg) Maris Otter extra
Samuel Smith Brewery: India Ale clone
Samuel Smith Brewery: India Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.050 FG = 1.012 IBU = 50 SRM = 9 ABV = 5% This classic beer is brewed with well water
Harpoon Brewery: Harpoon IPA
This Harpoon classic started out as a summer seasonal in 1993 and ended up becoming one of the brewery’s biggest sellers. It is a crisp, clean, fairly traditional English IPA that will always be in style.
Bell’s Brewery Two Hearted Ale clone
Bell’s flagship IPA is brewed with 100% Centennial hops from the Pacific Northwest and named after the Two Hearted River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Celebration clone
First brewed in 1981, Sierra Nevada explains that Celebration Ale is one of the earliest examples of an American-style IPA, and it’s still one of the few hop-forward holiday beers. The intense, hop-heavy beer features Chinook, Centennial, and Cascade hops.
