Welcome to the HI Beer Blast, your weekly guide to what’s new at Hawaii’s best craft beer bars, restaurants, brewpubs and more. You’ll also find info on local beer events. New blasts go out every week on Thursdays.
1. Real A Gastropub
New Beers:
- De la senne stouterik
- De la senne taras boulba
- Maui double overhead IIPA
- Sierra ruthless rye
- Sierra ovila quad with plums
- Baird dark sky imperial stout
- Baird fire in the belly red
- Cambridge triple threat (bottle)
- Struise pannepot (bottle)
- Sierra Bigfoot 2013/2014 (bottle)
- Toccalmatto Skizoid (bottle)
- McCashins Stoke bomber bohemian ale (bottle)
- Toøl barrel aged mine is bigger than yours (muscatel barrels) (bottle)
- Haanbryggeriet Norwegian Wood (bottle)
- Hawai’i Nui Hapa Brown
- Brasserie Caracole Saxo
- Kona Pipeline Porter
2. Liquor Collection
New Beers:
- Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad
- Ommegang Rare VOS
- Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
- Woodchuck Pear Cider
- Sam Adams Rebel IPA
3. Humpy’s Kona
New Beers:
- Hawai’i Nui Southern Cross. Belgian Style Double Red Ale (8.2%abv)
- Big Island BrewHaus Golden Sabbath Belgian Strong Ale (8.5%abv)
- Iron Fist Velvet Glove Imperial Stout (9.0%abv)
- Affligem Blond Belgian Ale (6.8%abv)
- Sierra Nevada Celebration IPA (6.8%abv)
- Sierra Nevada Northern Hemisphere Wet Hop Ale(IPA) (6.7%abv)
- Iron Fist Renegade Blonde Kolsch(Ale)( 5.2%abv)
4. 12th Ave. Grill
New Beers:
- Descutes Armory XPA
- Moylan’s Moylander Double IPA
- FiftyFifth Brewing Co. Imperial Eclipse Stout – Four Roses (bottle)
- Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine (on deck)
- Ballast Point Big Eye IPA (on deck)
- Rogue Dry Hopped Saint Rogue Red (on deck)
5. SWAM
New Beers:
- Fifty Fifty Eclipse Imperial Stouts
- Sierra Neveda Big Foot Barley Wine
- Sierra Neveda Ruthless Rye
- Samuel Adams Rebel IPA
- Woodchuck Pear Cider
- Goose Island Lolita American Wild Ale
6. Bar 35
Events: Wednesday, January 22 – House of Brews State-of-the-Art. Each week a different theme and EIGHT different beers to be tasted. Andy Baker, Hawaii’s own encyclopedia of all things beer, is on hand to explain and enlighten. Tasting includes Chef Valentini’s pizza. Majority of tastings run $25 per person.
- Fifty Fifty Brewing Co. Eclipse 2013
- Elijah Craig 12yr
- Evan Williams
- Makers Mark
- High West Bourbon
- High West Rye
- Four Roses
8. Whole Foods Kahala
- Hitachino Dai-Dai Ale
- Hanssen’s Oudbeitje
- Green’s Dry Hopped Lager
- Christian Drouin Cidre
- Fifty Fifty Eclipse (7 Varieties)
- Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
- Samuel Adams Rebel IPA
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