These beers rank highest on the hopIQ Score — a nightly-updated weighting of style authenticity, award history, and community signals. Filter by style family or country to narrow the list; the top-3 podium and full ranking below always reflect the current day’s data.
How this ranking works
The hopIQ Score judges every beer against its style first: it rewards medals from competitions that judge within style categories and deducts points where a beer measurably deviates from its style reference. Community ratings add to that. Non-alcoholic excluded. No paid placement — order follows the data alone. Ranking spans 3556 beers from 886 breweries.
Top 5 of 50
Ottakringer BrauWerk HellberryBest Overall
ABV
5.9%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
golden 8
Red as the sky over Vienna: red berries on the nose and hoppy berry aromas, a slightly malty, voluminous body, a round bitterness with a pleasant dryness and a bitter finish. Red to brownish in color, 5.9% ABV, 14.9° Plato, 45 IBU. A Red… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
pFriem IPAMost Distinctive
ABV
6.8%
Bitterness
Very bitter
Colour
golden 8
pFriem IPA is the most bitter of the brewery's year-round beers at 65 IBU. Pale malt and a small share of crystal give it a light copper color and a candy-like backbone, while Chinook, Mosaic and Citra carry the hops. Dank aromas of peach,… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
ABV
7.0%
Bitterness
Very bitter
Colour
golden 7
Union Jack is the brewery's original West Coast IPA, first released in 2008. Simcoe, Chinook and Centennial give it a bold hop profile of grapefruit, orange zest and classic pine, with touches of passion fruit, berry and orange blossom in… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
Very bitter
Colour
dark 30
Rye and roasted malts balance against fresh hop flavours and aromas, which is a harder trick than it sounds at this colour: the beer pours dark brown to black but drinks like a hoppy ale rather than a stout. American hops carry the aroma.… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
5
ABV
7.2%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
golden 7
Brewed clear and hard bittered in the older American manner, though the hop bill mixes New Zealand varieties in rather than staying purely American. Grapefruit peel and orange lead, with pine resin and a dry herbal edge behind them, and… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
Ranks 6–10
6
American and New Zealand hops in roughly equal measure: grapefruit and orange first, mango and passionfruit behind them, and a thread of pine resin running underneath. A pale malt base with a touch of caramel gives the bitterness something… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
7
DDH Pillow is the double dry-hopped version of Pillow, the brewery's hazy double IPA, dosed with Citra and Mosaic both as pellets and as lupulin concentrate. It pours a dense, hazy golden yellow. The nose leads with orange creamsicle,… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
8
A hazy IPA at 6.0 percent with a soft, wheat-thickened body and a heavy late hop charge. Candied orange, mango and passionfruit run through both the nose and the palate, with a light draught of bitterness underneath rather than a hard… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
9
The core West Coast recipe scaled up, with the added strength showing as weight rather than sweetness. Pine, resin and grapefruit lead, orange and a floral edge sit behind them, and the caramel malt base stays lean for the alcohol level.… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
10
Firestone IPA is the brewery's modern take on the California IPA, launched in 2023 and rooted in West Coast tradition. A light base of two-row and white wheat leaves room for Citra, Mosaic and Strata. The hops bring waves of pineapple,… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
The taste landscape
Of the 50 top beers, 2 lean malt-forward and 46 lean hop-forward.