Yee-Haw IPA

Yee-Haw IPA bills itself as “the best of both coasts, with its West Coast style hop character and New England style look.” Right off the jump, it should be mentioned that I’m not convinced that the beer—copper coloured, nearly clear, and topped with a sudsy off-white head—actually has a New England IPA look. It comes from Johnson City, Tennessee, and Yee-Haw Brewing, where it is put into black and white 355mL cans that are plain but cool.

The 6.7% alcohol IPA packs in a hefty 75 IBUs. It has a full and assertive nose that is both piney and solidly malty. The flavour is malty first, with perhaps too much sweetness, before veering into substantially bitter evergreen finish.

Yee-Haw IPA is a good, not great Tennessean IPA with good malt-hop balance and a bit too much initial sweetness.

Rating: 7.0 out of 10.