Big Wave Golden Ale
Kona Brewing Company in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.14
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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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5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
Big wave, small taste. Light bold body with no head. Faint malt aroma. Light flavour with a rod in the middle of it. Small tangy finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Concordia Ale House
on 28 Feb 2026
at 06:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
sampled many years ago - going back and ticking some that i missed - solid light sipper
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2026
at 14:36
6.5/10
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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
6.8/10
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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
5.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 29 Nov 2025
at 19:12
5.3/10
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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
8/10
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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
7/10
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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
6/10
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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
7/10
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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