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Time sure flies when you’re brewing beer! It’s hard to believe, but just one year ago Waikiki Brewing Company opened their doors and started pouring some amazing beers. Needless to say, the brewery has been embraced by both locals and visitors who enjoy the open air brewery and staples like Black Strap Molasses Porter and Jalape&nt ...

It just got a whole lot easier to get your hands on beers from Stewbum & Stonewall Brewing. The tiny nano-brewery, which opened its doors late last year, has just opened a small tasting room where you can get growler fills and samples of all of their beers. Due to the brewery’s very small output, up until now you’ve only been a ...

Festival season is in full swing here in Hawaii. Tickets for the 2016 Maui Brewers Festival are on sale NOW and the partial beer list has just been released. The festival helps raise funds for the Maui Arts and Cultural Center (MACC) and is proudly sponsored by Maui Brewing Company and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. As usual, the lis ...

March is shaping up to be a busy month over at the Kona Brewing Pub on the Big Island. Along with the annual Kona Brewers Festival this weekend, the team from Craft Brewers Alliance (KBC’s parent company) will break ground on its new 100,000-barrel Big Island brewery and canning facility on Friday, March 11. To celebrate the ground ...

This is a guest post by Thomas Ray, the bar manager at Square Barrels in downtown Honolulu. He recently fulfilled a lifelong (beer-wise at least) dream of tasting the fabled Pliny the Younger from Russian River Brewing Company. This is one of the most hyped beers on the planet and one that people are willing wait in line hours for. Does it liv ...

I met Andrew Brunson back in December when I visited Kohola Brewery on Maui. Brunson had recently moved to the islands to take up the brewer job at Kohola. It was a huge leap of faith for the Kentucky native. New brewery, thousands of miles away from home and a culturally different place. But Andrew was beyond stoked to be in Hawaii and brewin ...

Beer Lab HI will become Oahu’s seventh brewery when it opens its doors on Wednesday and beer fans are excited. The “soft opening” will have limited hours (4pm to 10pm), Wednesday through Saturday, and feature 4-5 beers. The team at Beer Lab HI has been furiously brewing batches over the past couple of weeks to have ...

Here it is. All of the beers that will be poured at the 2016 Kona Brewers Festival. 10 BARREL – Apocalypse IPA 6.8% and Joe IPA 6.8% APPALACIAN MOUNTAIN BREWERY – Long Leaf IPA 7.1% and Boone Creek Blonde 4.9% BALLAST POINT BREWERY – Grapefruit Sculpin IPA 7.0% and Grunion Pale Ale 5.5% BAY ...

Wow how the times have changed. It wasn’t too long ago when there was only one Certified Cicerone® in the state of Hawaii and not really much interest in the program. Fast forward a few years to today and there are 15 Certified Cicerones® and there are dozens more studying for the exam. The huge leap in certifications is rea ...

Here’s a great event that supports Hawaii’s Craft Brewers Guild and nets you 5 gallons of wort to ferment at home. Lanikai Brewing Company is hosting the very first Ohana Brew on Sunday, March 20th, to help raise funds for the guild. I’m sure you’re asking yourself what the heck is an “Ohana Brew” and w ...