Kiwi Aura '25: Freestyle Hops
Left Handed Giant Brewing Co. in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Series|
Score
7.58
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A series showcasing the unique terroir & dedicated growers of New Zealand; brewed in collaboration with Freestyle Hops.
Every part of Freestyle's processing is engineered to preserve the super-fresh, just-harvested aromas that brewers all covet. Employing regenerative, spray-free farming practices & ensuring the hops go from field to foil in under 72 hours, means the full spectrum of compounds, found at harvest, end up in the glass.
Nectarine, Pink Grapefruit & Sweet Lime
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can that Baz picked up from The Beer House, Hereford and which we shared, cheers Baz. Had this Friday 27th February 2026 around Jude and Baz's, Spond, Herefordshire we cooked a Chicken Tikka Masala. The aroma is leaning towards tropical with pineapple, guava and mango quite prominent. The taste is similar with some sweet orange thrown into the mix, it's a juicy beer, nice body, soft carbonation, a little resin bite, very good DIPA. Score 7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft, taster. @"Mash 2025", Barcelona (Spain). 24/10/2025
[#8.696 Global - #1.113 England - #11 Left Handed Giant]
Pours hazy orange with a lasting white head. Aroma: ripe pineaple, overripe peach and mango. So fruity. Taste: ripe tropical fruits, pine and orange zest. Hop spice on the palate.
Next one, please!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
440ml can. Murky yellow with a white head. Aroma of sweet stone fruits, lime, tropical, dank herbal notes. Taste of overripe peach, apricot, mango, papaya, lime and grapefruit, light pine, finishing with some hop spice and a light bitterness. Medium-full bodied, smooth. Excellent NZ DIPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 13/10/25.
Hazed orange topped with a lasting white covering.
Nose is juicy tropical fruit flesh, pineapple, soft malts, mango splash, papaya.
Taste comprises pine resin, dank chimes, stone fruit, guava, papaya, mandarin.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come resinous hop bitterness allied to a mellow boost.
Solid DIPA ... great balance and flavours.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
10th October 2025
Can. Borderline cloudy orange gold beer, decent bubbly pale cream colour head, doesn't last long. Smooth light palate, semi dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Thin bodied pale malts, a decent creamy sweetness delivered nonetheless. Fabulous quartet of Kiwi hops on offer here. Crisp pine. Some hop spice nibble. A savoury skunk runs underneath. Stone fruits and floral peach are obvious with red grapefruit coming through on the back end. Motueka comes through very late on but delivers a nice juicy floral key lime. Hop spice really starting to bite after the swallow. Full on Kiwi hop goodness delivered with a punchy dipa. Excellente!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from The Fuss Club. Stone fruits & fresh orange in the nose. Taste is peach, nectarine, pithy orange, lime, pineapple, spot of black pepper. Quite a bitter hoppy linger. Good stuff.