Beer Style: IPA Family
Three Floyds Brewing Company: Dreadnaught clone
This unforgettable imperial IPA features an intense citrus hop aroma and a huge malt body.
Alesmith Brewing Company: Alesmith IPA clone
This well-balanced West Coast IPA is a San Diego classic that is filled with aromas of grapfruit and tangerine, fresh pine, and tropical fruit.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: 90-Minute IPA clone
90 Minute IPA was the first beer that Dogfish Head brewed using their continuous hopping technique of adding hops throughout the boil. Esquire magazine has called it “perhaps the best IPA in America.”
Dogfish Head Craft Brewing: Indian Brown clone
This dark IPA is available year-round and is dry hopped similarly to Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute and 90 Minute IPAs. It is roasty, with a mild hop bitterness.
Left Hand Brewery’s Twin Sisters (Double IPA) clone
A big, chewy, resiny, hop extravaganza. Not a brew for the feint of heart.
Specialty IPA
When I started brewing, there was only one style category for India pale ale. Just a single category, no subcategories. Several years later, people had begun talking about the differences between English
Double IPA
Like many people, when I was new to craft beer I favored beers that had a maltier balance, ones that were not so bitter. At that time, a homebrew shop owner told
American IPA
The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) has distinguished four different IPA styles: English, American, double, and specialty (which has numerous sub-categories). Some people further specify American IPAs as being a “West Coast”
English IPA
India pale ale was first created when an enterprising brewer crafted a beer to better survive the long sea voyage from England to India in the late 18th century. It is said
Imperial/Double IPA
by the numbers OG: 1.070–1.090 (17–21.6 °P) FG: 1.010–1.020 (2.6–5.1 °P) SRM: 8–15 IBU: 60–120 ABV: 7.5–10% Like many people, when I was new to craft beer I favored beers with a
English IPA
by the numbers OG: 1.050–1.075 (12.4–18.2 °P) FG: 1.010–1.018 (2.6–4.6 °P) SRM: 8–14 IBU: 40–60 ABV: 5.0–7.5% India pale ale was first created when an enterprising brewer crafted a beer to better
American IPA
by the numbers OG: 1.056–1.075 (13.8–18.2 °P) FG: 1.010–1.018 (2.6–4.6 °P) SRM: 6–15 IBU: 40–70 ABV: 5.5–7.5% All IPA sub-styles are “hoppy,” but there is a vast difference in the level of
