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IslanderHAWAIIAN SAKE Lilikoi
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コタロー
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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コタロー
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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