Hawaii continues to be an expansion point for many of the nation’s largest craft breweries. The latest to make the leap over to Hawaii is Salt Lake City’s Uinta Brewing Company, which gained distribution to the state through Underground Wine Merchants and is available this week both on draft and in bottles and cans. Uinta …
It’s amazing how quickly a year can fly by when you’re brewing beer. It seems just like yesterday I was standing in an empty room with the crew from Beer Lab HI as they were starting to work on the space what would soon become their brewery. Now a year and 53 batches of beer …
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. Honolulu Magazine – The Hale Aina awards are back and it’s time to crown … Continue reading
1. Brew’d New Beers: Clown Shoes Crasher in the Rye Imperial Oatmeal Milk Stout aged in Rye & Bourbon Barrels Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin Green Flash Double Stout Maui Kihei Kolsch cans Ommegang Game of Thrones #5 Three-Eyed Raven Saison Nogne Ø Imperial Rye Porter Events: Midnight Sun Brewing Co. Release Party! Join us to … Continue reading
1. Brew’d New Beers: Cascade Blackberry (bottle) Cascade Apricot (bottle) Big Island Brewhaus Jabba the Sour Lanikai Pillbox Porter Stillwater Existent Green Flash Silva Stout Haandbryggeriet Belgian Pale Ale 2. Whole Foods Kahala New Beers: Ommegang/Game of Thrones – Three Eyed Raven Dark Saison Ale Samuel Adams – Summer Ale Maui Brewing Co – Kihei Kolsch … Continue reading
Here’s another great addition to the beer scene in Hawaii. Midnight Sun Brewing will begin distributing to Hawaii this summer and the initial shipment is mind blowing. Along with most of the regular releases from the anchorage based brewery, we’re expecting to receive a ton of specialty releases and rare kegs. The full list … Continue reading
It’s a big week if you live on Maui. Tons of great events lined up all leading up to the Maui Brewers Festival this Saturday, May 16th. Here’s a quick run down of the events this week. Continue reading
1. Brew’d New Beers: Cantillon Iris (will be tapped Tuesday) Prairie Standard Hoppy Farmhouse (will be tapped Tuesday) Amager/Mikkeller Hr. Frederiksens Vaesel Brunch Imperial Oatmeal Stout with Coffee Ballast Point Victory at Sea Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin Nitro (will be tapped Tuesday) Evil Twin Yin Imperial Stout (will be tapped Tuesday) Evil Twin Yang IIPA (will be tapped … Continue reading
I recently received advance copies of these two books to review so I thought I’d pass my thoughts along. I’ve never really been big on the review thing (at least not with beers), but I love books and had a few opinions on these ones that I wanted to share. A trend I’ve noticed over … Continue reading
Kona Brewing Company has long been the giant of brewing in Hawaii. They are the state’s most recognizable brewing company, though many in the craft beer community have mixed or straight up negative feelings towards them. One of the main issues that regularly comes up is that all of Kona’s packaged beer available in Hawaii and the … Continue reading
I think it’s safe to say the 2015 Honolulu Brewers Festival was a huge success. It was incredible to see how big the craft beer community has grown here on Oahu, which was evident by the sheer number of people who showed up to enjoy 80 awesome beers, live music and super ono food. Now … Continue reading
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