HiWestCoastHO Trades HiHazyHO's Berries for White Grape
HiHO Brewing releases HiWestCoastHO, a West Coast IPA styled as a tribute to its hazy HiHazyHO, trading that beer's Citra-and-Simcoe juiciness for dank pineapple, white grape, apricot, and mango.
- Style: West Coast IPA
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- ABV: 7.4%
- HiHO Brewing Co. (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)
HiHO Brewing Co. has released HiWestCoastHO, a West Coast IPA the brewery describes as a tribute to its existing hazy release, HiHazyHO. It's a telling pairing: HiHazyHO leans on Citra and Simcoe hops for an intensely juicy berry-and-orange profile, and HiWestCoastHO takes the same brewery's fruit-forward instincts and reroutes them through the clearer, more bitterness-driven West Coast IPA framework instead of the hazy one.
According to HiHO, the beer is fruit-forward with a well-balanced bitterness, with tasting notes of dank pineapple, white grape, apricot, and mango. That's a wider and slightly more savory fruit spread than the berry-and-orange lean of its hazy namesake, which tracks with a West Coast build: clearer beers with more assertive bitterness tend to let sharper, less candied fruit notes read through. It comes in at 7.4 percent ABV.
HiWestCoastHO is on draft now at HiHO Brewing Co. in Cuyahoga Falls.
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