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:

Heretic Torment Belgian Strong Ale
Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales Seizoen
Breakside Brewing Post Time Kolsch
Belching Beaver Brewing Peanut Butter Milk Stout
Goose Island The Muddy Imperial Stout
Ridgeway Bad King John Stout (bottles)
Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black (bottles)
Freigeist Pimock Weizen
Dieu du Ciel! Rigor Mortis ABT (bottles)

Events:

2. Whole Foods Kailua
New Beers:

Goose Island – The Muddy Imperial Stout / Ogden Triple / Rambler IPA
Heretic – Shallow Grave
Anchor – Big Leaf Maple
Mad River – Humbolt Haze
Left Coast – Red Tide
Sam Adams – Straw Man / Iceman

Windward Bar

Kona Brewing – Wailua Wheat / Big Wave / Longboard /Castaway IPA / Lava Man Red / Black Sand Porter
Maui Brewing Co- Mana Wheat / Bid Swell IPA / Bikini Blonde
Deschutes – Black Butte Porter / Inversion IPA\
Left Coast – Una Mas / Trestles IPA / Hop Juice DIPA
Rogue – Good Chit Pilsner
Widmer – Upheaval IPA / The FIZZ Collab Series
Iron Fist – Renegade Blonde / Nelson The Impaler
Coronado – Idiot IPA
Bluemoon
Ayinger – Oktoberfest
Ballast Point – Sculpin IPA

3. Monkeypod Kitchen Ko’Olina
New Beers:

Thornbridge, Jaipur IPA
Belching Beaver, Peanut Butter Milk Stout
Westmalle, Dubbel
Lindemans, Cuvee Rene Gueuze
Logsdon, Organic Oak Aged Bretta

4. Kauai Beer Company
New Beers:

Oktoberfest – 5.83% and 23.3 IBU

5. Liquor Collection
New Beers:

Clown Shoes Crunkle Sam
Belching Beaver Beavers Milk

6. Bar 35
Events: Wednesday, October 8 – Oregon Beers (Deschutes Jubeale, Deschutes Dubble Dinkel Bock, Widmer Brothers Kill Devil Brown, Rogue Hazelnut Brown, Good Life Sweet As Pacific Ale) 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.

7. Muprhy’s
New Beers:

Widmer Bros Okto Festival Beer
Sierra Nevada Flipside Red IPA
Widmer Bros Fizz
The Good Life Sweet ‘As Pale Ale
Sam Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale (bottle)

8. Real a Gastropub
New Beers:

Breakside irish stout
Aecht schlenkerla helles lager
Mission shipwreck
Ayinger brau weiss
Mikkeller X Prairie American Style (Bottle)
TO ØL Red Wine Barrel-Aged Liquid Confidential (Bottle)
Mikkeller French Oak series Barleywine (Bottle)

Events:

Tuesday, October 7th – Tap Attack featuring artisinal beers from Southern Wine & Spirits

9. Gordon Biersch Honolulu
Events:

October 7 ~ Beer and Brats! 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm “Enjoy a beautiful sunset on the waterfront lanai with a cold hand crafted lager and a brat to your taste.”