Santa Fe Imperial Yippee IPA
Santa Fe Imperial Yippee IPA
Rated 3.200 by BeerPals
Brewed by Santa Fe Brewing Company
Santa Fe, NM, United States
Style: Imperial IPA
9.5% Alcohol by Volume
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Welcome to the Hop Head Rodeo at Santa Fe Brewing Company! Coming out of bucking chute #3 is a hop slingin’, show-stealin’ son-of-a-gun known to locals as Yippee IPA. Your gonna have to cowboy up for the first sip (8 seconds where you will savor the wonderfully intense hop flavors, the robust sweetness, and the delicious lingering bitterness of this limited edition IPA). Hang on tight for an intense ride ’cause Yippee IPA is the real deal: heavily hopped, unfiltered, and well balanced for true hoppy beer lovers of the Wild West. After you’ve wrangled the first sip, you can grab your cowboy hat and round up another, your taste buds will be tamed and you’ll be ready for a long ride into the orangey sunset knowing that you’re on your way to getting that big trophy belt buckle you’ve secretly always wanted...only this one’s engraved with hops. Yippee IPA is the third and final beer of our "20th Anniversary Big Beer Series." This bottle will age well through our 21st year. Cheers! and thank you for the first 20 years... We’re looking forward to 20 more!
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| Overall Rank | 22018 |
| Overall Percentile | 60.4 |
| Style Rank | 1720 of 2645 |
| Style Percentile | 35 |
| Lowest Score | 3.8 |
| Highest Score | 3.8 |
| Average Score | 3.800 |
| Weighted Score | 3.200 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Bottle 184 of 3317; Sampled August 2009,br> The beer is a bit excessively carbonated as it foams up as soon as I pop the cap. A careful pour still produces a three finger thick, pale, off-white colored head in my 25cl tulip glass. The beer is a red, light amber hue that shows a lightly hazed red copper color when held up to the light. The beer smells of sweet citrus, sharp pine and a toasted grain note in the finish. While this is definitely hop dominated a pale malt character still plays a significant role here. Bright lychee, ample bergamot, clean tangelo, kumquat oil and some clean apricot aromas define the dominant hop fruit notes. If you really dig around there is a touch of warming alcohol noticeable in the nose.
Sweet tasting up front, but immediately balanced by a biting hop bitterness. The finish has a sharp herbal and green grassy hop notes as well as some hot alcohol notes. The carbonation is still a bit high, despite sitting in my glass for quite some time; some swirling gets rid of the excess carbonation. Despite the up front sweetness the overall effect of this beer is pretty dry, this is helped by the dryness of the finish. Notes of orange zest, lychee, and ruby red grapefruit concentrate. The body is fuller than one would want in a light, quaffable West Coast Double IPA, but is not on the heavy side for many Double IPAs out there. This has enough sweetness to accentuate the fruity hop notes but not so much as to make this cloying. The malt is fairly clean, though it can seem just a touch murky, or perhaps rustic is a bit more flattering, at times. The hop character in the finish also has a nice menthol, oral-nasal character to it.
Despite being out for quite some time, this is still fresh and hoppy tasting. Definitely hits the spot for those in needs of a hop fix. This is a nice beer, for some reason though it isn’t entirely doing it for me right now. I think I might just not be quite in the mood for this beer right now, but this is till pretty enjoyable.
