Aumakua Honu
Galea Craft Beers in Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BCB (Formerly known as Brouwerij Eutropius)IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
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Score
7.22
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Aumakua are Hawaiian family gods, ancesters who return to earth as spiritual animals, plants and rocks.
This NEIPA was brewed with Maris Otter, Wheatmalt, Wheatflakes, Oatmalt and Oatflakes. Hopped with Sabro, Simcoe and Azacca. And also double dry hopped with these hops.
Result is a very fruity and drinkable ipa, with some notes of pineapple, coconut and grapefruit. With a noticeable biterness in the end. Drink cold!
Label design by Vinnie from Vinnie's Tattoos in Antwerp
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Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Aumakua Honu from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Small white head over fully hazy yellow-golden beer. Grapefruit, grapes, muscat, lemon. Fresh & inviting. Background aromas of lunaria and lupulin. Bitter, bit ink-y, woody bitterness. Fruit in retreat, hints of mould. Still pretty good. Refreshing, just a little tart; well carbonated but quite slick and nowhere lean. Surprisingly good, which is not common seen its origins - all the better for it!
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Aumakua Honu from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
25/X/21 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker) @ home, BB: 8/VI/22, LB02050721 15:44 (2021-1198)
Pretty cloudy pale yellow to light beige beer, big creamy white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: nice, lots of tropical fruits, lots of citrus, grapefruit notes, hint of kiwi. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots of citrus, rather soapy bitterness, some grapefruit, dry, more bitter hops, little sweet, lemon drops. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, hoppy, bit grassy, more grapefruit, bit soapy still, some pineapple notes, a little watery, not bad.
Idiosynkrasie (18028) reviewed Aumakua Honu from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
330ml can. Hazy, yellow-ish, deep golden colour with average to huge, frothy, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Juicy, exotic, tropical and citrusy fruity, hoppy aroma, notes of mango and passion fruit, lemon and orange, peach and apricot, some guava, papaya, yuzu. Taste is sweet-ish, oaty and wheaty malty, juicy, tropical and citrusy fruity hoppy, minimally diluted notes of mango, passion fruit, durian, minimally tart-ish hints of lemon, lime. Creamy texture, smooth and soft palate, medium, soft carbonation. Quite intense and exotic nose, well balanced, sadly minimally diluted flavours in taste - very nice!
Reubs (35701) reviewed Aumakua Honu from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can sourced from Beerdome and drunk at home - hazy golden yellow with a white head. Medium sweet fruity and malty with notes of pineapple, grapefruit, lemon, citrus peel, medium body, solid hoppy finish. Good first impression. --- Beer merged from original tick of Galea Aumakua Honu on 26 Mar 2025 at 12:08 - Score: 7. Original review text: New Brewery tick ? Medium sweet fruity and malty with notes of pineapple, grapefruit, lemon, citrus peel, medium body, solid hoppy finish. Good first impression.
77ships (14509) reviewed Aumakua Honu from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
330 ml. can. Damn proper start for a first IPA. Slightly too mellow but has all the right parts.
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Aumakua Honu from Galea Craft Beers 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours hazed blonde, medium large to large white frothy head. Scent is pineapple, fresh, wide ( not sharp ) , less citrussy than you'd expect, but still tropical . medium ( to medium low ) intensity - for the style that is. Very creamy and gentle. Taste is gentle, a bit hollow though, it misses the body to be really smooth, or to truly be a NE style. Hops are a tad tropical, but also present a lot of green fruit (grapes come to mind). Not agressive at all, if anything a bit to gentle, perhaps. Bitterness is low (as it should be) carbonation is medium, perhaps just a tad to high to me, but that might be solved by simply creating a better density. Decent IPA, and I can see why they called it NEIPA - though some elements could be perfected. The hopblend is at times a bit soapy. Not troublesome, but again a small imperfection.