4.6

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Sample, thanks oh6gdx! Murky pale bronze colour, creamy head. Aroma of peaches in syrup. Really sweet with full body snd rounded mouthfeel. Syrupy, porridgy malt. Peach preserve. Low bitterness. Generic sticky hazy DIPA.

7.3

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

EB - Can 440ml. @ [ Petalax 🇫🇮 💻👀 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏠🇩🇰 🍂🍁 ☁️☂️ [ As Seven Island Motu Maori ]. ABV: 8.0%. [20251008]. 7/-3/8/4/-15

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Hazy yellow colour, mediumsized white head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is floral, some nectary and some oaty tones with citrus to it. Flavour is floral, some nectary and oaty tones with some citrus, pineapple and mild grapefruits.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

NEDIPA by what is often regarded as Greece's finest craft brewery, employing hops grown by Freestyle Hops in New Zealand, including of course (two forms) of Motueka and Nelson Sauvin, but also Citra. Can from DeApotheek in Gentbrugge. Quite thick, foamy, beaten egg-white, silently but audibly crackling, moussey, stable head on a turbid to almost milky, yellow blonde robe with pale beige tinge. Fairly strong aroma of passion fruit coulis, mushy Betterfood, cherimoya, lemon thyme piercing through, brioche dough, artisanal honey, honey pomelo, overripe pepino, rambutan, soggy biscuit cake, lemongrass, Passoa, something remotely nougat-like, a vague touch of cinnamon and even very faint vanilla (oddly). Juicy onset, sweetish with this thin but effective citric-sourish edge, impressions of ripe guava, rambutan, some light granadilla and honeydew, prickly but very fine-bubbled carbonation with full, creamy body. Doughy and lightly biscuity, even somewhat Betterfood-like malts ensue, continuously soaked in sweet-tropical hop aromas, but not as crisply so as I am used to from this genre, with a bit more emphasis on sweetness than on juiciness, even if a juicy honeydew, honey pomelo and guava effect is absolutely present. Elements of that typical 'Mojito lime' from the Motueka(s) and sweet white grapes from the Nelson Sauvin take over in the finish, lending this NEDIPA a notably distinct, very 'Pacific' character; there is a kind of exotic soapiness to it I would almost associate with tropical paradise-set television commercials for body lotions and the like. There is a citric edge to the hops but nowhere sharply so, just enough to keep everything firmly in NEDIPA territory; they also provide a brief but adequate amount of bitterness, which in this case is subtly reinforced by white rum-like alcohol. Odd associations with vanilla, coconut and cinnamon seem to pop up every now and then, but make no sense and remain so volatile that I hesitate to describe them. Seven Islands lives up to its name: this is not the umpteenth NEDIPA one can encounter any day, they present a specific interpretation which, though certainly very New England in all respects, manages to distinguish itself with an emphatically exotic, tropical island-like character. It has not happened often that a beer makes me dream of a sunset beneath the palm trees of Tahiti or Hawaii like this one does. Kudos to Seven Islands, they made the right choice to collaborate with this New Zealand hop farm and this fact alone shows how brilliant his Greek brewery really is - I need to find more of their beers, if only for 'scientific' confirmation.

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7.4

High quality modern ipa. Tons of late hops, none early. Highly drinkable summer refresher. Sterk ams

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

440ml can. Murky golden, white head. Aroma of candied citrus, grapefruit, lime, tropical fruits. Taste of sweet citrus fruits, grapefruit, lemon and lime, exotic fruits, guava, papaya. Full bodied, very creamy, smooth. A bit sweet but can't fault those beautiful fruity flavours.