Newsflash Buddy
Drekker Brewing Company

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Beer Geek Stats
From:
Drekker Brewing Company
 
North Dakota, United States
Style:
Hazy IPA
ABV:
6.5%
Score:
+5 ratings needed
Avg:
3.96 | pDev: 3.03%
Ratings:
5 | reviews: 5
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 02, 2025
Added:
Dec 21, 2024
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
We’re here to interrupt your regular programming with a special announcement: a new IPA is on the loose! Newsflash Buddy is loaded up with Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin, Nelson Cryo and Galaxy hops and ready to take over your taste sensors with notes of overripe apricot, melon, candied berry and passionfruit. Can’t say we didn’t warn ya.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by zeff80 from Missouri

4/5  rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16oz can. Poured out a cloudy, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy lacing on the glass. It smelled of citrus, grapefruit, guava and caramel. Sweet tropical fruit taste with toasted caramel and a piney bitterness.
Dec 02, 2025
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Reviewed by ttoadee from Texas

3.99/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Milky medium gold pour, off white head is steady but not thick, patchy lace appears as the beer is consumed. Nose shows stone fruit and berries.

Taste shares apricot, unripe honeydew, bite of papaya, lightly tart rasberries and blueberries, light kilned malt, light doughyness. Mouthfeel is medium. Finish shares a noticeable berry bitterness with a light citrus zest note.
Jul 09, 2025
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Reviewed by buschbeer from Ohio

4.02/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
1 PINT can
Served in a pokal glass

This beer pours pale yellow and is turbid. It is topped with a few inches of eggshell head that leaves rocky lacing.

Fresh citrus aroma with a focus on grapefruit. A slight medicinal smell.

Citrus and medicinal flavors

Fuller bodied with a slightly gritty mouthfeel

Solid IPA
Mar 23, 2025
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Reviewed by bbtkd from South Dakota

3.74/5  rDev -5.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Drekker Newsflash Buddy NEIPA, 6.5% ABV. Pours hazy golden with a two-finger off-white head that left great lacing. Aroma is citrus, tropical fruit, and faint pine. Flavor is grapefruit and tropical fruit, faintly sweet, moderately bitter. Decent mouthfeel, overall very good.
Jan 31, 2025
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Reviewed by defunksta from Wisconsin

4.07/5  rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Appearance: Pours a completely hazy (5% clarity) medium, deep, but bright golden color with a strong white head. SRM of 7. (4.25)

Aroma: Strong aromas of grapefruit, passionfruit, lime, guava upfront. Followed by some vinous white grape and citrus zest with hints of herbal dankness. Some tropical stonefruit and berry underneath. (4.00)

Flavor; Strong flavors of grapefruit, passionfruit, lime, guava. Some underripe apricot skins and tropical melon/berries underneath. Citrusy, slightly herbal, and zesty. Leans dry. (4.00)

Feel: Medium-body, strong carbonation and zest. Finishes clean. (4.00)

Overall: An interesting combo of Nelson and Riwaka. white grape, Citrus and also some lime notes. (Rating: 4.07+)
Dec 23, 2024