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IslanderHAWAIIAN SAKE Lilikoi
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I opened a bottle of a souvenir I bought in Hawaii. This one is a so-called craft saké of lilikoi (passion fruit). I had heard that they had built a brewery relatively close to Waikiki and wanted to go there, but unfortunately, the brewery has moved to the Big Island of Hawaii in 2022, leaving only the store. The aroma was sour and koji-like, with a hint of Japanese sake, and a soft tropical breeze! It is not as fruity as one might imagine. When you taste it, it has a light, acidic flavor, but it is not a citrusy, sour sake either. It has a refreshing sweetness and acidity with a clean aftertaste, but it also has more rice than expected, making it more like a sake. It has a tropical flavor, but I thought it would be more like a juice. It goes well with vinegar-based foods such as salads. The volume is blinding, but the end of the bottle has more lilikoi than the beginning. The flavor is refreshingly tropical and astringent when you bite into the seeds, and the sake flavor is light. I enjoyed it with thoughts such as, "I want to go back soon. By the way, the store that handles Junmai Ginjo...which part of Junmai is Junmai? I thought, "What part of Junmai is Junmai? If I have a chance, I would like to try the Junmai one.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Hello Kotaro 😃 🌺Hawaii 🏝️ sake! It's so tropical 🤗I want to try Islander too 😋 but more importantly I want to go to Hawaii 🥹!
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ポンちゃん
Good morning, Kotaro 🐥. I love Hawaii 🌺Lilikoi itself is suggestive as I don't see it in Japan😻and it tastes like sake (excuse the pun 🙏). I'd love to try some of the foreign brewed sake 😊.
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コタロー
Hi Jay & Nobby, ☀️ I drank it for the first time and it was an interesting mix of sake and tropical 🍶🏝️ Hawaii is nice ✨I want to go there already too because it's a great place no matter how many times you go 😆.
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Hi Pon, ☀️ I was wondering about the lilikoi and pineapple, but decided to go with the refreshing tropical fruit lilikoi 👍. I was surprised to find that I could taste the sake in spite of the tropical flavor 😁.
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The 7th Matsuo Taisha Sake-1 Grand Prix ④ Islander sake brewery had a stall at "Sake World Summit in KYOTO" and we were curious about it. Since the system of multiple lines was not good for time performance, bouken and I changed to a sharing strategy. They had passion fruit, Kona coffee, and Junmai Daiginjo. ISLANDER SAKE Junmai Daiginjo Unfiltered Nama-Genshu. It was a proper sake with a gentle acidity and a rather refreshing taste. It is a loose sake that is a little lacking in my opinion. The price is expensive, so I don't think I will buy it. ISLANDER SAKE Kona Coffee The color is a little brownish and it smells like coffee. I always drink my coffee black, so I thought it was very light coffee. I don't think I'll buy this one either. Here, I ran into the owner and manager of "Sake Bar Shinshiro," which I had visited with bouken-san before.
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⭐︎ This year we received another sake brewed on the island of Hawaii. The taste is a jun-dai with a good balance of sweetness and acidity, deep aroma and very smooth on the palate. Thank you again for the delicious sake. 🙇‍♂️
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ハリー
Duke, really? Hawaii⁉️ And Westin! I'm too jealous, you know,
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⭐︎ Thank you for your comment, Harry. This Islander is high quality. Please don't hesitate to order one when you come across it: 🙇‍♂️
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ポンちゃん
Duke, good evening 🦉. I see you are drinking this sake in Hawaii 😻I imagine it to be tropical but it tastes like sake! I just want to drink it😊.
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⭐︎ Thanks for your comment, Pon: 🙇‍♂️ Islander is quite tasty. A Japanese man named Chiaki has started a brewery by himself. I think the water is also good.
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Good evening, Duke Shibuya! While I'm busy with work, you are in Hawaii ⁉️ I didn't know that you went to a resort on the Big Island of Hawaii 🏝️.... I envy you ❗️ I'd like to try this drink too!
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⭐︎ Good morning, Chichi! I really enjoyed the drink called Islander. But it is expensive. Thanks to that, I've been shuffling around the work I've accumulated since I got back 😢.
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Matsuo Taisha Sake-1 Grand Prix ④ islander sake brewery in Hawaii I had known about this sake for a while but could not afford it because of its high price. I took this opportunity to try it. Rutemi drank it a while ago 😁. I drank ● Junmai Daiginjo Unfiltered Nama Sake It was made with KITASHIZUKU. It was quite a proper sake. It was moderately floral and had a good amount of sake flavor. The price is 7,700 yen and if you ask me if I would buy it, I would say 🤔. Kona Coffee Unfiltered Nama Sake Sake that was not on the distributed list. This was more interesting than the Jun Dai. There was also a fruity tropical sake, but I could imagine the taste and thought coffee would be more interesting, so I tasted this one. The rice is Kitashizuku and Calrose rice. Coffee beans soaked in sake? It tasted like fresh coffee beans! It had an atmosphere similar to the canned coffee called "Fresh Bean Blend" that Nescafe used to offer. I wonder if this is a liqueur or a craft saké, and how it would be classified?
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ポンちゃん
bouken Good evening 🦉. Sake and coffee beans 😳‼️I like Kona coffee☕ so I am very curious about this! Is it sake but with a coffee flavor?
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ルテルテミ
Hello bouken 😃have you had a drink 😆. Junmai Daiginjo is definitely a delicious sake but expensive 🥹It tasted like Kona coffee, which is strange. This one was 5500 yen 😂.
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bouken
Good evening, Ponchan 😃. I was curious about Tropical but I like Kona coffee so I tried it ☕. It tastes almost like coffee with no milk and sugar 🤣.
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Good evening, Lutemi 😃. Decently tasty but to think I could buy many other good drinks for this price 🤔... Kona coffee is 5500 yen 😳 so cheap like the dream group. I can't say 🤣.
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⭐︎ ilander Junmai Daiginjo brewed on the Big Island of Hawaii. I licked it as being from Hawaii, but it's fantastic👍. It has a subtle brewing aroma, and sweetness comes first on the palate. The sweetness comes first, then a slight gasiness, then sourness, and then the sweetness goes away to become richness? It's delicious. The Jungin I had next was lighter, more acidic, and really refreshing. It seems to have been brewed since last year at a brewery attached to a restaurant called "islander sake".
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遥瑛チチ
Good morning, Duke Shibuya 😃. Wow, is it from Hawaii? ⁉️ I didn't know there was such a drink. I'd like to try it, but I don't think I'll ever come across it 😅.
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ポンちゃん
Good morning, Duke! I see they make sake in Hawaii too 😳and I like the idea of good sake👍I hope Hawaiians think sake is good too😊. By the way, it's a stylish restaurant 😉✨.
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ジェイ&ノビィ
Good evening, Duke Shibusawa 😃. We are ❗️ sake from Hawaii 🌺 and the atmosphere of this store might make you feel like a tropical sake 🏝️ 🤗.
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3KAN4ON
Good evening, Duke Shibuya 🌇. I see there is a store 🏬 that carries this sake 😃. When I looked it up before, I had the impression that it was insanely expensive, but if I drank it in a restaurant, it would probably cost about 3 times as much as Jyushiyo, wouldn't it?
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デューク澁澤
⭐︎ Chichi, sorry for the late response: 🙇‍♂️ islander is still a young sake. It will be distributed in Japan in the near future. I thought it was a high quality sake.
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⭐︎ Good morning, Pon. Sorry for the late response again. 🙇‍♂️ I hear that Hawaii has about 20% Japanese-Americans. I guess good sake sells well in Hawaii.
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⭐︎ Good morning, Jay & Novi. Sorry for the late response. The islander was good and the food was good but it was a drinking party with all males and this was a no-go 😢.
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⭐︎ Good morning, 3KAN4ON. I see that you know islander. It was about 14.000 yen for 4 gens at the store. It is expensive to write 😴. I hope I can come across it because it was delicious.
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ぽんぽん
Islander純米吟醸 山田錦純米吟醸
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Islander Sake Brewery Islander Sake Junmai Ginjo Yamadanishiki Islander Sake Brewery is located in Hawaii, U.S.A. California Yamadanishiki is used to make this Junmai Ginjo. California Yamadanishiki and Hawaiian spring water. Calm aroma, mellow rice flavor, and a gentle aftertaste, A mild rice flavor with a gentle, thick aftertaste. #Sake
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Jeng LeeJeng Lee
IslanderNatural omachi Junmai Ginjo
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Dryer. Made with organic rice. Stronger flavor, Nigiri, sea bream, blue fin, squid, Hokkaido scallop, Spanish mackerel, sword fish, salmon belly, toro
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Calrose (USA) Junmai Ginjo The first sake brewery to be born in Hawaii in 33 years, established in 2049. The cap is made of glass! Too sweet, like pineapple, not sake... I won't drink it anymore!
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Brands from Islander Sake Brewery

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We analyze the flavors based on everyone's comments and select similar brands.

ShiratsuyuSimilar Characteristics
CoffeeFruityFluffyInvigoratingRefreshing
MasamuneSimilar Characteristics
CoffeeFruityInvigoratingFreshCrisp
YamadaSimilar Characteristics
CoffeeJuiceFizzyFluffyInvigorating
kochuushunSimilar Characteristics
CoffeeFizzyBalancedLightFlamboyant
舞姫Similar Characteristics
CoffeeMilkAcidityJuiceFruity

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