OTOH, I’ve heard from breweries that refuse to have any IPA on tap at all. Almost like a badge of honor for them. You certainly don’t need to dedicate a lot of tapsto them, but it seems silly to purposely turn down sales by not having at least one. I don’t know of any brewery that can really afford to do that.
I try to keep a 1.065 to 1.075 IPA on tap most of the time. They are my beer of preference to order in a bar maybe 25% of the time. Over the years I have found that most bottled or canned IPAs are not fresh enough, and I really do not like dank (CTZ) hop flavor. Give me an IPA with Centennial, Cascade, Amarillo, and Chinook…now you’re talking.
That said, I am looking forward to tapping my first NE IPA this week with Mosaic, El Dorado, and Ekaunot, as I have not used any of them before…
Oddly enough, even as the OP in this thread, my votes for Best Beer this year included IPAs (Bell’s Two Hearted, Cigar City Jai Lai, Lagunitas Lil’ Sumpin’ Sumpin’).
My favorite IPA that I’ve brewed I used 5 ounces of hops. Pretty sure that’s about all a Bell’s clone calls for. I like many IPAs, but the ones I enjoy the most are on the more moderate side.
I think for me personally, no one has come close to Kosmicki’s All day IPA. Its a great beer.
The way I understand NEIPA(s), they have moderate bitterness but significant hop aroma. I may like that better than a super bitter hop blaster
Living a couple hours from Yakima, we get our share of IPAs up here. No, MORE than our share. And I love IPAs. But, I’m just tired of them. It sucks to walk down the aisle at the grocery store, and see a wall of BMC swill on one side, and a wall of IPAs on the other. Take out the Goose Island, 10 Barrel, and Elysian (I refuse to pay money to AB-InBev), and its even more sparse.
Sure you can find 1 or 2 porters or stouts, or a few witbiers. Once in a while, there’s a Kolsch. But most of the beers in the stores here are just alcohol and iso-alpha-acid delivery vehicles.
So, I’m back to homebrewing because that’s about the only way to get the beer I want to drink.
Apology accepted. 
I live about as far as you can from Yakima, and it’s the same thing here. Every brewery I can think of has at least 2 IPAs available at any given time. I love hops, and I love IPAs, but when I go to a brewery I’m looking for things like German lagers, English ales, sours, etc. Everyone has IPAs (and they’re not always good), but not everyone has a good brown ale any more.
That’s exactly why I’ve always been focused on drinking mostly my own beer. I buy commercial beer only when I somehow run out of homebrew, or when I want to sample a new style or offering. Other than that, it’s all homebrew all the time.
Also, I’m pretty sure this whole trend toward session beers and away from hop-bombs was predicted years ago by Gary Glass. Session ales and lighter German beers was the prediction, IIRC. So the whole LODO Munich Helles fixation was not a huge surprise to me.
Like you guys, I moved past IPAs a couple years ago and have been exploring some fringe styles like Grödziskie and more sessionable European styles. I still brew a couple IPAs each year when I crave them, like right around New Year’s. Really just when the mood strikes me.