HOPIQ SCORE
The Best Canadian IPAs
172 beers from 34 breweries · Ranked by style authenticity — not marketing
These rankings are dynamic. As more people rate, match and like beers on hopIQ, community signals will increasingly shape the results alongside style authenticity and award recognition.
Canadian craft IPA has taken an unusual path. Unlike the American craft scene's decade of West-Coast-bitter dominance, Canada's IPA output on this ranking is weighted toward hazy: 4 of the 11 Canadian IPAs here are Hazy IPAs, outnumbering the 3 American IPAs. That imbalance reflects both the timing of Canadian craft growth (most producers scaled during the mid-2010s hazy wave) and a distinct Quebec-Ontario craft identity built around Dieu du Ciel!, Collective Arts, Beau's, and Big Rock — breweries that treated the New England style as a starting point rather than an eventual concession.
The 11-beer set is small but stylistically distinct. Dieu du Ciel! (Corne du Diable as a Red IPA, Moralité as a Session/APA-adjacent classic), Big Rock (Wrangler), Beau's (Juiced AF), and Collective Arts (Ransack the Universe from Hamilton, Ontario) all appear in the top group — a mix of Red, Session, Hazy, and hop-forward interpretations that Canadian craft leans into more than the US, UK, or German scenes do. Positions rotate as scores recompute; the Quebec-Ontario craft identity persists.
How this ranking works
The hopIQ Score weights style authenticity (80%), user engagement (10%), notability (10%), and award history. Active, in-production beers only — non-alcoholic excluded. No paid placement — order follows the data alone. Ranking spans 172 beers from 34 breweries.
Top 5 of 50
Terrace Mountain Session IPABest Overall#414 worldwide
ABV
4.1%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
golden 6
Named after Terrace Mountain in the Okanagan, which has regrown since a wildfire; the beer is tied to wildfire prevention work in British Columbia. Mangosteen goes into the brew and shapes the fruit: sweet-tart, nearer lychee and peach…Named after Terrace Mountain in the Okanagan, which has regrown since a wildfire; the beer is tied to wildfire prevention work in British Columbia. Mangosteen goes into the brew and shapes the fruit: sweet-tart, nearer lychee and peach than citrus, while the hops push in a tropical direction over a pale, lightly bready malt base. At 34 IBU the bitterness is clear but short, and at 4.1% the body stays light and the finish dry.
Propeller IPA#876 worldwide
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
golden 8
The first true India Pale Ale brewed in Nova Scotia and still the beer the house is best known for. It is assertive rather than subtle: pine resin and fresh citrus lead, with hints of stone fruit behind them, over a malt base that stays…The first true India Pale Ale brewed in Nova Scotia and still the beer the house is best known for. It is assertive rather than subtle: pine resin and fresh citrus lead, with hints of stone fruit behind them, over a malt base that stays out of the way. The finish is dry and firmly bitter, closer to the American West Coast reading of the style than to anything soft or hazy.
Hipster Fuel
ABV
6.8%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
golden 8
An IPA of northwestern cut, and the beer the brewery points to when someone asks what it has for hop drinkers. It pours clear gold, with cereal malt and a touch of caramel sitting under grapefruit peel, pine and a floral note. The…An IPA of northwestern cut, and the beer the brewery points to when someone asks what it has for hop drinkers. It pours clear gold, with cereal malt and a touch of caramel sitting under grapefruit peel, pine and a floral note. The bitterness builds through the glass and coats rather than snaps, and the finish is dry. The recipe is reworked each time it is brewed, so the hop bill shifts from batch to batch.
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Tropicale IPA
ABV
6%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
golden 8
An IPA fermented with wild yeast and finished on tropical fruit. Guava, passionfruit and mango come through thickly, and the brettanomyces underneath adds a dry, faintly leathery funk that stops the fruit from reading like juice. Hops push…An IPA fermented with wild yeast and finished on tropical fruit. Guava, passionfruit and mango come through thickly, and the brettanomyces underneath adds a dry, faintly leathery funk that stops the fruit from reading like juice. Hops push tangerine and a resinous edge alongside. The body is light and the acidity mild, and it closes dry and earthy, the fruit fading last.
5
IPA du Nord-EstMost Distinctive
ABV
6%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
golden 5
The house take on the New England style, in the range since 2016 and hopped with Citra and Mosaic. It pours pale and veiled, with a silky, softly rounded texture and almost no malt sharpness. Peach, pineapple and mango fill the nose and…The house take on the New England style, in the range since 2016 and hopped with Citra and Mosaic. It pours pale and veiled, with a silky, softly rounded texture and almost no malt sharpness. Peach, pineapple and mango fill the nose and follow through on the palate, juicy and thickly fruited. The bitterness stays gentle and balanced, so the finish reads as fruit rather than bite.
Ranks 6–10
6
Boréale IPA Légère
A session IPA at 3.5 percent, hopped with Citra and released in 2026. The malt base is deliberately thin so the hop sits in front: grapefruit and orange zest in the aroma, a resinous edge behind them, and a dry, brisk finish. The…A session IPA at 3.5 percent, hopped with Citra and released in 2026. The malt base is deliberately thin so the hop sits in front: grapefruit and orange zest in the aroma, a resinous edge behind them, and a dry, brisk finish. The bitterness is present but moderate, and the beer trades body for aromatic clarity instead of chasing the weight of a full-strength IPA.
7
Aviator Bicoastal IPA
Light amber, brewed with oats and hopped with Eclipse, Chinook and Centennial to sit between the two IPA traditions. Tropical fruit leads, with mandarin and stone fruit from the Eclipse, while resinous pine and grapefruit rind come up…Light amber, brewed with oats and hopped with Eclipse, Chinook and Centennial to sit between the two IPA traditions. Tropical fruit leads, with mandarin and stone fruit from the Eclipse, while resinous pine and grapefruit rind come up underneath from the North American varieties. The bitterness is held back, so the fruit stays in front and the finish runs only moderately dry.
8
Peach Cobbler IPA
A fruited IPA with fresh peach added to a juicy base. Ripe stone fruit dominates the aroma, with a baked, biscuity graham-cracker note running alongside it and a light vanilla sweetness underneath. The body is soft and full, the bitterness…A fruited IPA with fresh peach added to a juicy base. Ripe stone fruit dominates the aroma, with a baked, biscuity graham-cracker note running alongside it and a light vanilla sweetness underneath. The body is soft and full, the bitterness low, and the peach carries through to a rounded finish that stops just short of sweet. Hop character sits in the background as citrus and light tropical fruit.
9
Ice Fog
A malt-forward IPA built on the British model rather than on the bitterness race. Copper-gold in the glass, with caramel and biscuit malt carrying the aroma and an orange-marmalade note laid over it. The hopping keeps to earthy, herbal and…A malt-forward IPA built on the British model rather than on the bitterness race. Copper-gold in the glass, with caramel and biscuit malt carrying the aroma and an orange-marmalade note laid over it. The hopping keeps to earthy, herbal and faintly floral tones, and the bitterness stays moderate and rounded rather than sharp. Medium-bodied, with a tea-like dryness in the finish. The brewery treats it as its everyday IPA, poured in-house at the end of a shift.
10
Azacca IPA
A single-hop IPA built on Azacca. The nose is zesty and sharp with grapefruit, orange peel and mango, and a resinous pine note runs underneath it. A lean cracker-malt base keeps the beer crisp rather than sweet, and the bitterness is firm…A single-hop IPA built on Azacca. The nose is zesty and sharp with grapefruit, orange peel and mango, and a resinous pine note runs underneath it. A lean cracker-malt base keeps the beer crisp rather than sweet, and the bitterness is firm and clean through to a dry finish. Medium-light in body, with the citrus holding on after the swallow.
The taste landscape
Of the 50 top beers, 2 lean malt-forward and 48 lean hop-forward.