Wailua Wheat
Kona Brewing Company in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Special|
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5.50
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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.
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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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle at GBBF 08. Gold, lasting off white head. Some passionfruit. Decent fullness in mouth. It’s not really a wheat beer, more a passionfruit flavoured pale ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2008
at 02:41
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy yellow golden color with small frothy white head. The aroma is tart wheat and passion fruit. Good sticky lacing on the glass. The taste is a sour fruit and a sweet finish. Not too much going on with this fruit beer from kona.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2008
at 00:20
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
From tap at Pizza Port, San Clemente. Pours hazy yellow with a lacing white head. Spiced and fruity aroma. Light wheaty note. Passion fruity flavour and dry wheaty flavour. Ends mild acidic and fruity with a lasting wheaty touch.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2008
at 22:38
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Hazy yellow with tiny white head. Sweet fruity aroma with yeasty notes. Sweet flavor with citric and wheaty notes. Ends sweet.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2008
at 18:20
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours cloudy light golden with a small head. Wheat, citrus, passion fruit in the nose. Light wheaty flavor with hints of passion fruit. Nice taste up front, but finishes with a cheap lager flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2008
at 16:06
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Golden witht hin white head. Aroma of wheat, lightly fruity. Taste is fizzy , wheat and light notes of passion fruit, citrus, givng the beer a nice sweet taste. Good, clean and refreshing. Not the best wheat out there, wish they had made the passion fruit a little more present.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2008
at 11:48
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Hazy straw-amber. Very subtle passion fruit aroma underneath a somewhat crackery, metallic maltiness. Heavy passion fruit taste, balanced by crackery malt but there is no semblance of integration, just two components clashing. Fairly dry finish for a fruit beer. Not much wheat.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2008
at 11:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled at the Northern Virginia Summer BrewFest (2008). Maybe I have a soft spot for fruity beers. I thought this one was pretty fantastic. A decent wheat beer with a touch of citrus in the form of tropical passion fruit.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2008
at 01:48
2.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 1
Texture 4
Overall 0.5
Wow, this is horrible! Hazy golden with a small fading head. Aroma is mostly wheaty/minty with a vague tropical fruitiness. A touch of spiciness. Goes downhill fast once you drink it however, with a sharp acidic twang, like bad crotch. Empty finish but with a lingering grossness. Wow, and I got 5 more of these. I hope my neighbor likes it.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2008
at 21:33
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Courtesy of Quake1028. Pours gold to straw with weak white head. It has a big fruity aroma with lots of juiciness. So this is what passion fruit smells like. Doesn’t smell much different than a fruit drink. The taste is the same with tropical fruit sweetness and some tart fruitiness. I get almost no base beer in there. This was supposed to be a wheat beer or something?
Tried
on 11 May 2008
at 07:43