The Best Spanish IPAs

Spanish craft IPA is disproportionately hazy. Of the 48 Spanish IPAs on this ranking, 10 are Hazy IPAs and another 5 are Doubles — a sub-style distribution weighted toward soft, juice-forward hop expression rather than the West-Coast bitterness that defined earlier Spanish craft experiments. Caleya (Asturias, north coast), SOMA Beer (Galicia), Cordobeer (Cordoba), and Solpor Brewing (Galicia again) are the names driving that direction, alongside Barcelona-based producers who have anchored Spanish craft since the mid-2010s.

The hopIQ ranking captures the full 48-beer set, from Caleya's Hop Religion Triple IPA to SOMA's DIPAs to Cordobeer's West Coast IPA. Spanish IPA sits at a different scale from the Spanish craft lager scene: smaller by market share but arguably more distinctively Spanish, less dominated by the Mahou / Estrella / San Miguel mainstream and more visibly the work of independent producers building a hop-forward beer culture in a country historically defined by cerveza rubia.