The Emperor Returns
Hop Hooligans in Jilava, București - Ilfov, Romania 🇷🇴
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
5.76
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This mischievous character has been in and out for quite a few times. Suspiciously different each time, some might say.
THE EMPEROR RETURNS with quite a statement, wearing shiny, decadent clothes of ‘mango NEIPA’, relying on even more fruit than ever before.
It’s a chewy, hazy IPA base that’s been royally treated with Krush and Mosaic, then pumelled with sweet and fragrant mango purée, without covering its hoppy bite.
Water, Grains (Golden Promise, Heidelberg, Oat malt, Oat flakes, Chit malt, Caramel pils), Dextrose, Mango puree, Hops (Mosaic, Krush), Yeast (London Ale III)
THE EMPEROR RETURNS with quite a statement, wearing shiny, decadent clothes of ‘mango NEIPA’, relying on even more fruit than ever before.
It’s a chewy, hazy IPA base that’s been royally treated with Krush and Mosaic, then pumelled with sweet and fragrant mango purée, without covering its hoppy bite.
Water, Grains (Golden Promise, Heidelberg, Oat malt, Oat flakes, Chit malt, Caramel pils), Dextrose, Mango puree, Hops (Mosaic, Krush), Yeast (London Ale III)
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6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Havnens Vin Og Tobakhus. Pours opaque bright orange with no head. Aroma is intense mango and tinned pineapple, and hints of vanilla ice cream. Taste is medium to very sweet, faint bitter, light acidic, and faint salty. Body is light oily with faint carbonation. Finish is long and mostly sweet with notes of mango lassi, tinned pineapple and vanilla ice cream. Rather nice but not very complex.
Tried
from Can
from
Havnens Vin & Tobakhus
on 09 May 2026
at 22:49
1/10
Magus, vesine, mango, mõrkjas. -1 õlut. See on tõesti s!tt.
Tried
from Can
on 09 May 2025
at 22:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at 100piv. Murky deep orange body, looks like mango juice, no head to speak of. Mango juice covering some light fermentation touches (light alcohol?) in the aroma. Mango juice covering vague herbal hoppy notes by the finish, sweetish, thankfully not cloying. I feel bad for the poor hops that must have been used in this one only to get completely drowned out by the juice/concentrate. On the other hand, I really like mango juice (ah the memories of the ones on the Qatar Airways flight). If you want a mango juice that gets you drunk, well, this is your choice, just don't think of it as a NEIPA.
Tried
from Draft
at
100 pív
on 30 Apr 2025
at 12:16
5.4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Tap at 100 piv. Tastes like pure mango concentrate, nothing else. A couple bubbles. Overall really extreme, not beery at all. Weirdly tasty, but can this even be rated like beer? Megathick. Oof.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2025
at 19:29
5.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Fruchtiger Beginn mit sehr viel Mango. Herb, kein Hopfen, spritzig. Trocken, geringe Bitterkeit, süffig, unbierig. 13/7/8/7//7
Tried
from Draft
at
HIGH FIVE taproom
on 13 Apr 2025
at 11:56