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: Baird Brewing Rising Sun Pale Ale draft De Ranke XXX Bitter draft Bourgogne … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2014
Hawaii Beer Blast #71: Your Weekly Craft Beer Update
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: BIG ISLAND BREWHAUS OVERBOARD CASK Sierra Nevada Flipside Red IPA draft & bottles … Continue reading
Logsdon Farmhouse Ales Hawaii Bound
UPDATE 9/15/14 – Bottles and draft have arrived in the state. Should be at your favorite beer shop this week. UPDATE 8/15/14- Arrival date will be late August or early September with the following beers: Kili Wit, Seizoen, Seizoen Bretta, Oak Age Bretta and Straffe Drieling. Sure there are two hurricanes headed straight for Hawaii and today is … Continue reading
Hawaii Beer Blast #70: Your Weekly Craft Beer Update
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: Hoppin’ Frog: B.O.R.I.S. the Crusher, Hop Heathen Imperial Black IPA, Hoppin’ to Heaven … Continue reading
Dine and Draught: Pairing Beer with Oahu’s Best Burger!
I want to start by offering a big mahalo to my friend, Tim, for approaching me about contributing to Beer in Hawaii. I have been following his blog since its inception and can’t think of a post that I have not read (and if I did, I know I missed out). Everything that is posted on … Continue reading
2014 Real Beer Festival – Beer and Restaurant List
UPDATE: Due to potential tropical storms, the festival date has been moved to Saturday, August 16th. Same time, location and beer/food lineup. Please visit the official Facebook page for more details. Oahu residents, the time is almost here for the 2nd Annual Real Beer Festival. With a brand new location in Kaka’ako offering more space, more … Continue reading
Try This Beer: Breakside Passionfruit Sour Ale
I may be totally shooting myself in the foot with this post because I want all of this beer for myself. Portland’s Breakside Brewing recently landed in Hawaii with 2 beers, Wonderlust IPA and their award winning summer seasonal, Passionfruit Sour Ale. Both are excellent beers, but I don’t get very excited about a new IPA … Continue reading
Hawaii Beer Blast #69: Your Weekly Craft Beer Update
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: Green Flash Double Stout bottle Green Flash Hop Head Red bottle & draft … Continue reading
Interview: Garrett Marrero, Maui Brewing Company
Where did you grow up and how did you first get into craft beer? I grew up in San Diego. It was just starting to become the amazing beer scene that it is today when I left to go to college, I’m stoked that I get to visit so often and be a part … Continue reading
Tiny Bubbles: Hawaii Beer Reads for 7/11/14
My picks of beer news from around the web that you need to read and my two cents on the topics. Most of the time it’s Hawaii beer news topics, but every once in a while you’ll find other general beer related topics. Pacific Business News – The brewing scene on Oahu is going to get … Continue reading