Kona Brewing Company Big Wave Golden Ale

Big Wave Golden Ale

 

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

  Golden / Blonde Ale Regular
Score
6.11
ABV: 4.4% IBU: 21 Ticks: 291
Big Wave is a lighter-bodied golden ale with a tropical hop aroma and flavor—smooth, easy drinking, and refreshing. The use of caramel malt contributes to the golden hue of this beer, and our special blend of hops provides a bright, quenching finish that makes it a struggle to not grab another one.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle in Werksviertel. Light, citrus, perfume. Full, a bit juicy, creamy. A tad short and thin, but very much drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2025 at 17:47


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at the Werksviertel Poke place. Perfumed citrus hops, clean, medium light mellow body, light lychee stickiness on the palate. Classic.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2025 at 17:45


5.5

Tried from Can on 29 Nov 2025 at 19:12


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Old rating - From Waitrose in Jersey, the 3rd bottle I've tasted from Kona. The first 2 came from Hawaii, gift's from a friend. Pours a golden colour with a white head. Hints of fruit in the aroma, tastes of pineapple & malt. Lightly bitter in the finish. Different bottle of beer in my home No 1958

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jun 2025 at 12:18


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours a crystal clear gold color with a small white head and fair retention. Fair lacing. Light tropical fruit aroma. Pale lager flavor with some tropical fruit notes amplified by the honey notes. Better than I remember. Light body and lower than average carbonation. Low bitterness.

Tried from Can on 31 May 2025 at 00:25


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottled. Yellow pour big white head. Grains and light malts. More of a kolsch IMO. Pretty decent.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:05


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

At HNL airport, golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt, grain, sweet. Taste is the same, sweet, malt, grain, light floral and fruity hops.

Tried from Draft on 13 May 2025 at 07:43


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

An In-Bev mass product, acceptable but not that great with a lovely side of strawberry concerning this bottle, light and watery, dry malt. 13.03.2020

Tried from Bottle on 29 Apr 2025 at 19:54


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Goon color, decent head. Taste was light sweetness, bread. Aroma was light earthy.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 04:41


6.5

RB score 2.93

Tried from Draft at Kona Brewing - Brewery & Pub on 12 Mar 2025 at 03:48