A small taste from a can @ Alppila. Pours hazy yellow with a medium head. Aroma is sweet malts with citrus. Flavor is juicy malts with citrus and hops. Good.

A small taste from a can @ Alppila. Pours hazy yellow with a low head. Aroma is juicy malts with some alcohol. Flavor is juicy malts, alcohol, hops. Decent.

Black with a huge fluffy brown head that lingered and left good lacing. Rosty and woody with floral hops, anise, vanilla and cocoa. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.

Yeasty with a touch of diacetyl, also with a outsized lemon presence that isn’t altogether pleasant. Piney in the middle before offering notes of dank and resin on the back end. Messy, messy NEIPA. Pass.

Solid Mosaic IPA, full of passion fruit, mango, grapefruit, mandarin, and peach, backed up by notes of bubblegum and earth, with a modest pine bitterness on the back end. Finishes a bit harsh, with a minor astringency screwing up the texture. Otherwise, a good NEIPA.

Hazy golden with a white head. Fruiy hop aroma. Malt body with some hops. Malt and hops goes into the finish. This was ok

Lots of grapefruit, passion fruit, berry, lychee, and tangerine, with a pine bitterness on the back end. Very little malt to offer much for the hops to play with, vegetal undertone and yeast in the fade. Decent.

Super hazy golden/strawcoloured body witha thick, very dense five to six centimetre tall off-white head that stays afloat for a long time over the rich and 80 per cent opaque body. Aroma of dry grass and perfume with a light touch of limes and lemons and some white wine grapes and even tropical fruits noticeable. Light-bodied; Crisp, grassy, floral, perfumey and a touch tropically fruity notes show through with some very mellow hop bitterness and pungency, but really this is all about the dryness, perfumey and slightly citrusey notes which almost exclusively derive from the hops, with at least a mellow yeast and malt nose to let the hops shine through at least. Aftertaste is very dry, crisp, perfumey, dare I say, slightly soapy that has some nice flavours, but a bit too one-dimensional and 'crisp' throughout, to make this nice. Plus, without any alpha acids here and no real complexity on the tastes that come from the hops - this Riwaka is definitely not my favourite. Overall, at least nice to try this hop once, but I'm not such a big fan. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Wegman's [grocery] in Alexandria, Virginia on 16-December-2021 for US$1,99 (part of a mixed six pack), canned on 11-November-2021 and sampled at my house here in Washington on my second daughter's [lucky number] Seventh birthday on 02-January-2022 - Happy Birthday Paige!!!