Kona Brewing Company Wailua Wheat

Wailua Wheat

 

Kona Brewing Company in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸

  Fruit Beer Special
Score
5.50
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 15 Ticks: 86
Limited release. Swimming in a fresh water pool at the base of a cascading waterfall is what we all imagine we would find in paradise.
On Maui, follow the old Hana Highway and you will find such a place – Wailua Falls. This plunging cascade of clear water is the inspiration for our Limited Release Wailua Wheat. This golden, sun colored ale has a bright, citrusy flavor that comes from the tropical passion fruit we brew into each batch. Sit back, relax and enjoy paradise anytime.
 

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5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
12oz bottle into a 'Leffe' chalice on 8th Dec 2017 at my daughters place in Orange County, California. Misty light orange body, wispy head and collar. Refreshing summer drink really, fruity with a citrus leaning in both the nose and taste, tropical stuff mostly rather than apples and pears. OK, but a little weak and thin body and flavour wise.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2017 at 20:26

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
355ml bottle. Minimally milky, orangey golden colour with small, frothy, fading, white head. Slightly strawy, wheaty, sweet-ish, fruity aroma, unspecific fruitiness. Taste is moderately sweet, juicy fruity, minimally wheaty, rather unspecific fruitiness again. Monotonous, slightly watery.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2017 at 14:22

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
12 oz. bottle. Pours clear pale gold with a small white head. Aroma is mild, with wheat and some passion fruit. Taste - passion fruit is stronger than aroma indicated, wheat, peach, grains, pineapple notes. Meh.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Nov 2017 at 23:14

6.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pours amber with a small head.Nose shows doughy wheat notes, soft floral hops and lemon rind.Flavours include more bready wheat, light citrus and herbal hops.
Tried on 15 Jul 2017 at 06:44

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
bottle. very simple, light and crisp beer. Not my style, but not awful by any means
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2017 at 10:59

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Nice golden pour, white foam. Aroma is quite grainy, classical malt domination and not that much fruitiness - although I was expecting to find some because of added passion fruit (and I bought it because of that). OK, maybe some berries there if you look hard enough. Taste is bready, carbonated and only very mildly hopped. Fruit character is somewhere there, some slight sourness, but overall quite subdued. OK beer but well, not really special, regardless of the alleged passionfruit.
Tried on 05 Apr 2017 at 07:26

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 11/16/2016. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lemon, passion fruit, melon, berry, pineapple, pear, wheat, cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, and floral/yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt, tropical fruit, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, passion fruit, melon, berry, pineapple, pear, wheat, cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, and floral/yeast earthiness. Light floral bitterness and slight tart/tangy wheat on the finish; lingering notes of lemon, passion fruit, melon, berry, pineapple, pear, wheat, cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, and floral/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness and balance of pale malt, tropical fruit, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Minimal dryness. Light-medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.4%. Overall this is a nice fruited pale wheat ale. All around good robustness and balance of pale malt, tropical fruit, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful, well balanced, and not watery feeling for the ABV. A pleasant and nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2017 at 18:59

5.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy yellow pour with a white head and good retention. Minor lacing. Highly wheaty taste, bordering on baby Hefe. I don’t taste the passion fruit. Smooth and crisp mouthfeel. Not bad.
Tried on 24 Feb 2017 at 17:09

6/10
Tried on 13 Jan 2016 at 20:29

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft at Three Fat a Pigs. Hazed orange small head served with orange slice. Nose is tropical fruits and wheat. Tastes of dry wheat, passion fruit, peppery, oranges. Crisp refreshing palate.
Tried from Draft on 26 Oct 2015 at 23:53