Aggressive medium-bodied India Pale Ale evenly spreads tangy grapefruit-orange-pineapple juicing and zesty lemon tartness above sticky hop-oiled pine resin. Delicately pine-tarred hemp, pine nut and walnut undertones help brisk citric spritz contrast crystal malt sugaring.

On tap at Blue Point, dry citric-bound India Pale Ale brings lemon-pitted navel, mandarin and blood orange fruiting to brisk piney hopped bittering. Marmalade illusions fade beneath the surface.

On tap at Shoreline Beverage, piney IPA-defined grapefruit peel bittering heightened by tea-bagged Extra Special Bitter-like peated rye malting. Dried orange musk spreads across sugary pineapple, peach and mango sweetness, settling beside mildly astringent herbal-hopped citric pining above toasted barley base.

Absolutely approachable moderate-bodied IPA will gain acceptance from lighter thirsts and jaded hopheads alike. Sunny lemon-seeded tartness picks up mild grapefruit bittering and resinous piney dankness. Tertiary peach, mango and pineapple fruiting sweetens the backend. Light rye breading provides soft bed.

Heady English-styled India Pale Ale brings dry wood lacquered pungency to sharp lemon-peeled grapefruit and spoiled orange musk. Perfume-dusted peach, pear and apple illusions contrast coarsened plasticine hop oiling, resinous earthen pine char and fusel vodka-nipped alcohol astringency.

Wonderfully easygoing canned IPA brings brisk grapefruit, orange, tangerine and pineapple tang to polite grassy hop bittering, sugary crystal malting and bread-crusted backdrop. Ashen charcoal bitterness gains strength by the piney citric finish. Crisp mineral water adds refreshing base.  

Straightahead medium-bodied IPA brings mid-range piney fruiting to spice-hopped florality and resinous mineral-grained earthiness. Hop-forward grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering picks up cotton-candied pineapple, peach and pear sweetness. Never too brash for softer tastes.

Taking the middle-of-the-road approach, soft-focus IPA stays more tropical fruited than hop embittered. Sweetly spiced pineapple, orange, cantaloupe, melon, mango and green anjou pear fruiting brightens mild lemony grapefruit tartness and piney cedar-spruce resin.

Pleasant amber-reddish IPA takes the softer approach. Well-balanced medium body combines nutty pine comb resonance with molasses-breaded sugaring and moderated dried fruiting (scoffing typical stylistic citric pining). Bitter earthen hop graining lightened by delicate water base. Pecan, hazelnut and butternut illusions make deeper impression than tertiary black cherry, fig, raisin and prune reminders.   

Lighter stylistic permutation with palest copper-hazed turbidity retains moderated grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and resinous dry-hopped pine tarring. At the citric finish, lemon-seeded pineapple tartness increases above corn-sugared crystal malting, earthen mineral graining and floral hibiscus-lotus notions.

On tap at Proletariat, sessionable easygoing charmer relies on lighter India Pale Ale-related stylistic illusions. Polite piney grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and minor juniper snip contrast tangy peach, mango, passionfruit, pineapple and melon tropicalia.

Placid medium body offers brisk orange-peeled grapefruit rind bittering and sharp wood-toned hop dryness to wispy peach-apple-tangerine-melon tang. Piney citric bittering deepened by ascending juniper bite over polite caramel malting and resinous minerality. After initial blunt bitterness recedes, West Coast IPA becomes too stylistically tame for hazing hopheads (yet efficient as crossover fodder for lighter pale ale thirsts).