Kona Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Craft Brew Alliance
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1994

Contact
74-5612 Pawai Pl, Kailua-Kona, HI, 96740, United States
Description
Aloha. That’s how most conversations begin here. It’s also how many of them end. But “Aloha” doesn’t just mean hello and goodbye and love and welcome. It means more than a word can express. It’s a feeling. A way of life. “Aloha” is the idea that we are all connected to everyone and everything around us and that true joy is found in respecting this connection. And it’s in this aloha spirit that the Kona Brewing Company was founded back in 1994 by Cameron Healy and his son Spoon Khalsa. They combined their love of Hawaii and its pristine, natural beauty with their fondness for delicious, local brews, and lucky for us, their dream lives on more than 20 years later.

So try a few of them. And join us in our pursuit of aloha.

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7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
[At GABF 2004] A hazy orange beer with a small disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy, but with some alcohol making it self present. The flavor is a lovely hoppy and grassy one, though with hints of alcohol.
Tried on 12 Jun 2005 at 02:54

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle Pours a very light clear pale yelow, witha small white head that quickly dissapates leaving very slight lacing evidence. Aroma is a somewhat sweet fruity, light grain and yeast. Flavor is a standard pale lager with a little more character. Overall it is a bit bitter and the uninteresting flavor leaves off with a fizzy woody trailer.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2004 at 16:50

3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 4
Well, mine wasn’t cloudy or hazy.Light malt nose with bitter dirty line flavor that hides anything else
Tried on 29 Apr 2004 at 19:29

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft. This is a good balanced beer. Dark amber with a thin white head. Malts back up the citrus hops. There's a slight grassy flavor, and a little creaminess to it. Nice and drinkable.
Tried from Draft on 18 Mar 2004 at 14:50

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Tap at festival:Light floral nose.Medium bodied with a decent hop finish....
Tried from Draft on 05 Jan 2003 at 12:41

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
GABF 2002: Definite chocolatey presence in aroma and flavor. Dark brown color. A certain flavor not unlike eating snow is present in the finish: weird.
Tried on 07 Oct 2002 at 11:52

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 7
GABF 2002: Light amber color. Strong resiny hop aroma. Very resiny piney flavor. Little malt.
Tried on 07 Oct 2002 at 07:48

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Amber coloured. Flowery nose. Medium bodied, well hopped, bitter finish. A nice interpretation of the style.
Tried on 09 Apr 2002 at 03:32

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Hazy. Malt accented........................................................
Tried on 26 Nov 2000 at 22:34

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
This was a good one at one point, but it has definitely slipped since they started having it brewed on the mainland. Clear, bronze. Fairly dull, woody hop nose with light malts. Somewhat toasty, woody with light caramel and breadcrust malts. OK, but definitely more mainstream compared with when it first came out.
Tried on 16 Sep 2000 at 22:35