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. Brew’d
New Beers:
Cantillon Classic Gueuze (bottles)
Cantillon Iris (bottles)
Cantillon Vigneronne (bottles)
Logsdon Seizoen Bretta (draft & bottles)
Logsdon Seizoen (draft & bottles)
Logsdon Oak Aged Bretta (bottles)
Logsdon Straffe Drieling (bottles)
Logsdon Kili Wit (bottles)
Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout (draft & bottles)
Belching Beaver Rabid Beaver Bite Rye IPA (draft)
Belching Beaver Me So Honey (bottles)
Belching Beaver Damned Double IPA (bottles)
Belching Beaver Hop Highway IPA (bottles)
Green Flash Green Bullet (draft)
Naparbier Hop Doom IIPA (draft)
Events:
2. Whole Foods Kailua
New Beers:
Widmer Collab – The FIZZ
Logsdon – Kili Wit, Seizoen, Seizoen Bretta, Oak Age Bretta
Sierra Nevada / Boulevard Brewing – Terraincognita
Clownshoes – Cruncle Sam Barleywine
Belching Beaver Beavers Milk
Belching Beaver Dammed!
Belching Beaver Me So Honey
Belching Beaver Hop HWY IPA
Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout
Belching Beaver Rabid Beaver Bite
On Tap At the Windward Bar
Kona Brewing Co.- Wailua Wheat / Big Wave / Longboard /Castaway/ Lava Man Red / Black Sand Porter
Maui Brewing Co. – Mana Wheat / Big Swell IPA / Bikini Blonde
Deschutes – Inversion IPA / Black Butte Porter
Rogue – Good Chit Pilsner
Lost Coast – Downtown Brown
Iron Fist – Nelson the Impaler / Renegade Blonde
Left Coast – Una Mas / Hop Juice / Trestles
Ayinger Oktoberfest
Bluemoon
Widmer – The FIZZ / Upheaval IPA
3. Real a Gastropub
Events:
Zwanze Day – Saturday, September 20th – OPEN AT 9AM
Sam Adams Oktoberfest
Coronado Brewing 18th Anniversary Ale Imperial IPA
Widmer Bros Okto
Please add on Green Flash 30th Street Pale Ale
Widmer Bros x 10 Barrel collaboration – Fizz
5. Kauai Beer Company
New Beers:
Hop Harvest Ale – Fresh Hop beer – 4.8% 20ibu
Brewed with 20lbs of fresh picked Cascade hops from Van Horn farm in Washington.
6. Liquor Collection
New Beers:
Sierra Nevada / Boulevard Brewing: Terra Incognita
Mission Shipwrecked DIPA
Mission IPA
Mission Conquistador Pale Ale
Mission Hefeweizen
Logsdon Oak Aged Bretta
Logsdon Seizoen Bretta
Logsdon Seizoen
Clown Shoes Ride The Lion
Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout
Belching Beaver Damned Double IPA
Belching Beaver Hop Highway IPA
Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest
Sierra Nevada Vienna Lager
Sierra Nevada Tumbler
Mendocino Talon DIPA
Hawaii Nui Southern Cross (19.2oz can)
Hawaii Nui Tsunami IPA (19.2oz can)
7. Bar 35
Events: Wednesday, September 24 – Big Beers (Mad River Double Dread Red, North Coast Brother Thelonious, Sam Adams Imperial White and more) 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.
8. SWAM
New Beers:
Fish Tale Vicious Circle Amber
Fish Tale Bitter End IPA
Fish Tale Beyond the Pale
Sierra Nevada collaboration with Boulevard, Terra Incognita
Sierra Nevada Ovila Abbey Tripel
Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout
Widmer 30th Anniversary collaboration with 10 Barrel, Fizz Spritzer Style
Mission Brewery CANONS
Belching Beaver Brewery
Logsdon Brewery
9. Whole Foods Kahala
New Beers:
Clown Shoes Crunkle Sam
Clown Shoes Ride the Lion Wee Heavy
Coronado 18th Anniversary Ale
Mendocino Talon IPA
Mission Hefeweizen
Mission Conquistador XPA
Mission Shipwrecked IIPA
10. Kona Brewing Company – Koko Head Marina Pub
New Beers:
Magic Sands Saison ABV: 5.5% IBU: 18
Traditional farmhouse style with a Hawaiian twist using Keitt mangos. Dry hopped with Citra hops to bring out the citrus/spicy aroma.
11. Rock & Brews Paia
New Beers:
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Humboldt Brewing Red Nectar
Widmer Bros. Barrel Aged Ginger Brrrrbon
Celebrator Dopplebock (bottle)
Ace Pumpkin Cider (bottle)
Events:
NFL Sunday ticket – Opening early on Sundays (10am) and anyone wearing a jersey while the games are on will receive a 20 oz. beer for the price of 16 oz. on select beers.
12. Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki
Events:
Oktoberfest – Saturday, September 2oth, 6-10pm
Celebrate Oktoberfest with a buffet of traditional German cuisine featuring a hand-carved ice bar and liquor ice-luge. Enjoy an extensive array of German beers, wines and liquors and enter the sausage eating contest with prizes to include dinner at Prince Court, Sunday Brunch and rounds of golf! Live entertainment to be provided by the Zicke Zacke Band.
Traditional German Buffet
Sauerbraten
Bratwurst
Knackwurst
Roast Chicken
Soft Pretzels
Assorted Desserts
and more!
Beers
Erdinger Oktoberfest
Warsteiner Dunkel
Samuel Adams Octoberfest
Wines
Heger Pinot Noir
Weins-Prüm Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Kabinett
Spirits
Jägermeister
Goldschläger
view flyer
$49 admission includes buffet
Reservations: 808-952-4579