Beers similar to Cloud Hopper Imperial IPA

Free State Brewing Company

Imperial IPA·United States·9.2% ABV·One of 65 Imperial IPAs in hopIQ·

hopIQ found 10 beers that share Cloud Hopper Imperial IPA's hoppy and tropical character. Tropical fruit, pine needles and flowers, with a hint of mowed grass, from a hop bill of Chinook, Columbus and Cascade. The malt bill is built to lift the hops rather than sit under them. A big imperial IPA from Free State in Lawrence, Kansas, the brewery that opened in 1989 as the first legal brewery in the state in over 100 years.

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10 beers like Cloud Hopper Imperial IPA

1

Imperial West Coast IPA

Green Flash Brewing Company

United States · Imperial IPA · 8.9%

ALTERNATIVE

76%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Keeps floral notes and pine notes like Free State, adds fruit notes, noticeably less bitter, drops tropical notes.

What carries overhoppycitrusybitterfull-bodiedpiney

Structure: less bitter

Compared to Free Statefruitycarameldrytropicalgrassy

Structure: Very close — a touch less bitterness, a touch more sweetness.

Structure: less bitter

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2

Bridge Road Brewers

Australia · Imperial IPA · 8.5%

ALTERNATIVE

74%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Mirrors Free State's pine notes and bitterness — plus dryness, sweeter, minus grass notes.

What carries overbittertropicalhoppypineyresinous

Structure: sweeter, less bitter

Compared to Free Statecarameldrygrassyfloral

Structure: Very close — a touch more sweetness, a touch less bitterness.

Structure: sweeter, less bitter

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3

Alpha Centauri IIPA

Hop Valley Brewing Company

United States · Imperial IPA · 9.0%

ALTERNATIVE

74%

FLAVOUR MATCH

Like Free State on pine notes and bitterness — adds cleanness, but without the tropical notes.

What carries overbitterhoppypineycitrusyfull-bodied

Structure: very close

Compared to Free Statecleantropicalgrassy

Structure: Same structure — body, sweetness, bitterness and texture all land on the same spot.

Structure: very close

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4

Good People Brewing Company

United States · Double IPA · 10.0%

73%

MATCH

As with Free State, same grass notes and floral notes; adds caramel notes, a notch stronger, no fullness.

Structure: a notch stronger

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Double Perpetual IPA

Tröegs Independent Brewing

United States · Imperial IPA · 9.5%

73%

MATCH

Same pine notes and resin notes as Free State, adds fruit notes, noticeably less bitter, but without the grass notes.

Structure: less bitter

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6

Suruga Bay Imperial IPA

Baird Brewing Company

Japan · Imperial IPA · 8.5%

72%

MATCH

Shares bitterness and resin notes with Free State; adds dryness, noticeably less bitter, but drops tropical notes.

Structure: less bitter, a notch softer

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Happy Hoppy Viking

Hornbeer

Denmark · Triple IPA · 9.3%

72%

MATCH

Alongside Free State on floral notes and pine notes: adds caramel notes, drops grass notes.

Structure: very close

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Alley Hop Imperial IPA

Birra Bellazzi

Italy · Imperial IPA · 9.5%

72%

MATCH

A touch more sweetness, noticeably less bitter, no grass notes — resin notes and pine notes as with Free State.

Structure: less bitter

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Big Ballard Imperial IPA

Redhook Brewery

United States · Imperial IPA · 8.6%

72%

MATCH

Less bitter — same pine notes and bitterness as Free State, adds dryness, noticeably less bitter, but without the grass notes.

Structure: less bitter

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Millennium Falcon

Holgate Brewhouse

Australia · Imperial IPA · 9.0%

71%

MATCH

Sweeter — same fullness and bitterness as Free State, adds juiciness, sweeter, but without the grass notes.

Structure: sweeter, less bitter

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