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 …
Earlier this week a small group of media gathered in the vast and soon to be restaurant space at Maui Brewing Company in Kihei to await a special announcement. Owner Garrett Marrero stood at the front of the group with a cold can of Mana Wheat and opened a Power Point slide presentation with a quote from … Continue reading
Kona Brewing Company’s Lemongrass Luau has been a local draft favorite for many years and now it’s finally getting released in bottles. Six packs should already be on store shelves in all markets where Kona Brewing is available. The blonde ale is brewed with generous amounts of lemongrass and fresh ginger added throughout the brewing process. … Continue reading
Check with each location to confirm availability of beers listed. 1. Brew’d New Beers: 8-Wired Sour Poppy Almanac Beer Co. Farmer’s Reserve Strawberry Big Island Brewhaus White Mountain Porter Waikiki Brewing Co. Ulalena SMASH Hoppy Red Breakside Bergamot ESB Gigantic Kiss the Goat Doppelbock Kona Makana Series: Wela Scottish Style Ale Ommegang Game of Thrones … Continue reading
Check with each location to confirm availability of beers listed. 1. Brew’d New Beers: 8-Wired Sour Poppy Breakside Bergamot ESB brewed with Lemon and Earl Gray Tea Ommegang Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms Hoppy Wheat Waikiki Brewing Co. SMASH Red Ale Big Island Brewhaus White Mountain Porter Almanac Hoppy Sour: Equinox Ballast Point Sextant Oatmeal … Continue reading
Time to share my thoughts on a number of new books that have come out over the past couple of months. The new trend seems to be recipe books for homebrewers as I’ve been getting a ton of them. There are a lot of homebrew recipes available on the internet and at homebrew shops, but … Continue reading
Here they are. A ton of pics from the 2016 Maui Brewers Festival. As usual the beers were amazing and everyone came out to have a good time. Thanks for Bryan Berkowitz for shooting such amazing pics! Continue reading
Check with each location to confirm availability of beers listed. 1. Brew’d New Beers: Ballast Point Mango Even Keel Saint Somewhere/Stillwater Beached Wood Green Bench Happy Hermit Pale Ale Anchor Go West! IPA Almanac Hoppy Sour Azacca Honolulu Beerworks Hop Island IPA North Coast Puck the Beer Events: Monday 5/16 – Saturday 5/21 American … Continue reading
Anthony Messina learned the ropes about the beer business while managing the beer program at Real a Gastropub. That experience allowed him to make the leap earlier this year to take on the roll of Sales Manager and Draft Technician at Underground Wine Merchants. At the small craft only distributor Anthony wears many hats, doing … Continue reading
Check with each location to confirm availability of beers listed. 1. Brew’d New Beers: NORTH COAST DRAUGHTS Puck Dry Hopped Saison Le Merle Saison Brother Thelonious Abbey Ale Old No 38 Dry Stout Acme IPA PranQSter Belgian Golden Ale Red Seal Ale Scrimshaw Pils Old Rasputin nitro NORTH COAST BOTTLES 2013 Bourbon Barrel aged Old … Continue reading
Check with each location to confirm availability of beers listed. 1. Brew’d New Beers: Cantillon Gueuze Magic Rock/Arizona Wilderness Cross Pollination IPA Amager/Cigar City Orange Crush Amager/Crooked Stave Chad, King of the Wild Yeasts Mikkeller Monks Brew Honolulu Beerworks 2016 Anniversary Ale Maui Double Overhead IIPA Waikiki Brewing DeePah IIPA Big Island Brewhaus Overboard IPA … Continue reading
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