Tap List Announced For Boneyard & Friends: IPA3 Throwdown 2025
Some of the best Triple IPAs will converge on Saturday, February 15th in Bend, Oregon at the Boneyard Pub as it’ll host the second edition of Boneyard & Friends: IPA3 Throwdown. Once again the team at Boneyard Beer have reached out to their friends in the brewing industry to bring in Triple IPA hop bombs from Seattle, Washington to San Clemente, California!
Boneyard & Friends IPA3 Throwdown will be a blind tasting event with attendees voting on their favorite Triple IPAs. Beers are only available in flight format (leftover beer will be available to order the day after on Sunday) and each flight receives a ballot to cast for the customers top 3 choices. Many of the invited breweries will be brewing up a special Triple IPA just for the event. One such brewery, Grand Fir Brewing, will brew its first ever Triple IPA that’ll be served at the event. The day will also be the official Bend release of the highly sought after Pliny the Younger from Russian River Brewing!
The list of breweries that have been invited to the 2025 Triple IPA Throwdown is quite impressive. Here’s a sneak peek at these breweries and the Triple IPAs that will be on tap!
Boneyard & Friends: IPA3 Throwdown Tap List
ARTIFEX HOP LOTUS
IIIPA Brewed with Mosaic T-90, Simcoe T-90, HBC 682 CO2 extract, Strata CGX, Columbus Cryo, Mosaic HyperBoost. 10% ABV
BONEYARD BEER NOTORIOUS IPA3
Copper in color and well-balanced, this big hoppy IPA has a complex malty flavor with layers a plenty. It’s a beer as notorious as the word itself. 11.8% ABV, 80 IBU
BOSS RAMBLER STICKY BOBBY
Triple IPA Brewed with Columbus, Lupomax, Simcoe, Zappa, El Dorardo Lupo, & Chinook Hops. 10% ABV
EL SEGUNDO POWER PLANT
Hops: Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra, Mosaic. Notes: Tropical Fruit Bomb. 11.1% ABV
FACTION CHECKING FOR GOPHERS
Hops: Riwaka, Nelson & Mosaic. Malts: American 2-Row, Vienna. 10% ABV
GOAL. BREWING PERFECT CURVES
Inspired by Porsche, Perfect Curves is a West Coast Triple IPA with Columbus and Strata. 10% ABV
GRAINS OF WRATH SPOILS OF WAR
IIIPA with robust bitterness and booming dankess that pops with intensity. Flavors and aromatics on mango, orange, passionfruit and pine. 10.2% ABV
GRAND FIR BREWING WIDOW MAKER
Notes of Blueberry Kush, Kiwi, and Fresh Citrus. 9.2% ABV
ISM BREWING BIG & BUSY
Simcoe, Columbus, Citra, Mosaic Cryo, Nectaron. House Ale Yeast. 2-Row, Gambrinus Pilsner, Wheat. This Triple IPA is a bit of a behemoth, but is well balanced between its added body from alcohol and kettle hop bitterness. The XXXL dry hop charge lays on the finishing touches and bursts out flavor of nectarine, guava nectar, and Douglas fir cone. 10% ABV
OLD STOVE BREWING FABIO AND THE GOOSE
This knockout Triple IPA s an incredible hop punch to the nose, starring a roller coaster ride of peach and mango-heavy Krush, piney Simcoe, and a surprising wallop of citrussy Mosaic. 11% ABV, 93 IBU
REUBEN’S BREWS BLIMEY TRIPLE IPA
Triple IPA: Using ludicrous amounts of hops in the whirlpool and a massive charge of Cryo hops in the dry hop, this year’s Blimey That’s Bitter amounts to a triple IPA that’s delightfully bitter, yet shockingly still a balanced and drinkable brew. 10.5% ABV
REVISION BREWING DR. LUPULIN
The art and science of awesome. Somewhat of an anomaly, Doctor Lupulin is brewed with loads of hops but is not too bitter. A high ABV brew that is easy drinking without excessive alcohol heat. Is that mango having a pleasant conversation with dank? Yep. The experiment to create beer perfection is alive. 11.3% ABV, 133 IBU
RUSSIAN RIVER PLINY THE YOUNGER
Pliny the Younger was first brewed as a seasonal release during the slow days of Winter 2005. As we continue to explore new hop varieties and combinations, each year we build off the previous years recipe with some slight changes. Pliny the Younger is loaded with a fresh hop aroma and flavor with notes of pine, stone fruit, citrus, and lychee. Please keep cold and enjoy fresh for the best hop aroma and flavor! 2025 Pliny The Younger is hopped with Amarillo, Citra, Mosaic, Nectaron, Simcoe, Warrior, and new this year, Tangier hops from Segal Ranch. 10.25% ABV, 90 IBU
STOUP BREWING WOODPILE IPA
Ain’t no season like ski season! What could be better than a ski followed by a delicious beer by the fire? Absolutely nothing. Enjoy this berry, passionfruit and pineapple forward IPA (thanks to Mosaic and Vic Secret hops) while warming your toes after a day on the slopes. Best keep that woodpile stocked! You’ve got a lot of runs to hit and a lot of beers to drink. 7.5% ABV, 65 IBU
SUNRIVER BREWING TECTONIC
Hops: Apollo, Citra, Mosaic, Citra, Cryo, Mosaic Cryo, Simcoe Cryo, Mosaic Dynaboost. Tectonic is a ground pounding monster of a hoppy beer, and not for the faint hearted. With a hopping rate surpassing 10 pounds per barrel, this beer has an Earth-shattering display of hop character. 10.2% ABV
Boneyard & Friends: IPA3 Throwdown will take place all daylong from from 11:00am – 10:00pm with plenty of fun to be had.
Boneyard Pub – 1955 NE Division Street – Bend, OR
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D.J. is a Portland, Oregon based writer that spent his formative years in the Midwest. With over 25 years under his belt of drinking beer at festivals across America and the world, he has developed a strong appreciation and understanding of craft beer and the industry that surrounds it. He can be found in any of the great breweries or beer bars that make Portland the best beer city in the world. His writing can also be found in the archives of Northwest Brewing News and can be followed on Twitter and Instagram at @hopapalooza.