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Lets brew a sour beer with tropical fruit. That’s how the lastest collaboration brew at Honolulu Beerworks got started. When Beerworks Geoff Seideman learned that Ben Edmunds of Portland’s Breakside Brewery was coming to Honolulu and wanted to do a collab brew he instantly thought sour. Seideman had good reason for wanted to brew h ...

Maui Brewing Company has filled it’s vacant Director of Brewery Operations position with the very talented Jesse Houck. The position was previously held by Darren Moser who left late last year to head up Iron Triangle in Los Angeles. Jesse comes to Maui from Golden Road Brewing in Los Angeles, where he helped craft some of their mos ...

Wow, 2015 was a huge year for beer in Hawaii. Talk about an explosion. The beer scene in Hawaii has never been bigger and things are looking to get even better in 2016. A total of seven new breweries opened their doors in 2015. SEVEN!!!!, though one (Hoku) never really even got started. There was a time not too long ago when we barely ...

After many months, a lot of blood, sweat and tears, a few valuable lessons and of course a ton of money, Kohola Brewery has finally opened its doors to the public. In Hawaii, it’s tough to open any type of business, but the costs and demands of a brewery make even tougher. Like many home brewers, Justin Brouhard, Ian Elumba and Will ...

Home of The Brave Brewing Company got it’s start several years ago contract brewing with Maui Brewing Company. They initially launched on Oahu delivering kegs of their Pilot Pale Ale to various bars and restaurants. Soon they expanded to 6 packs that were contract brewed out of Wisconsin. But for owner Glen Tomlinson, the goal was always ...

I’m super happy to finally be able to post this. Almanac Beer Company has picked up distribution in Hawaii via Underground Wine Merchants. The San Francisco based brewery is well known in California for their excellent sour beers and their commitment to working with local farms to incorporate their produce into those beers. In recent yea ...

For those of us on Oahu, we don’t have much of a connection with Kona Brewing Company. Yes, we’ve probably have all had a Longboard Lager and if you live near Hawaii Kai, visit the pub there. But we can’t easily visit the brewery and rarely see any of the specialty beers here. If you’ve visited the Kona pub, you know it ...

Lanikai Brewing Company will release its fourth Brewers Series beer this Friday, Poha-Loa, a Poha Belgium Blond Ale. This new release will be available at the Lanikai Brewing Company tasting room on Friday, from 5-9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 12-5pm. They only tap 1 full keg per weekend and I’ve heard that it is norma ...

Due to the incredible demand for tickets over the past couple of years the Kona Brewers Festival has added a second session for 2016. The past couple of years tickets to the festival sold out in a matter of hours, leaving a lot of people out in the cold. The 2016 Kona Brewers Festival will take place on Saturday, March 12, 2016 and i ...

For this ‘What I’m Drinking’ I caught up with Brad Miller, the Beverage Manager for Monkeypod Kitchen. Both beers can be found pretty easily, though they are both in limited supply. Breakside’s Passionfruit Sour is a seasonal release and Terminal Gravity will no longer be distributed in Hawaii. Breakside Passionfruit So ...