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Big Island Brewhaus

🌍 United States · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Big Island craft brewery founded in 2012 by Tom Kerns in Waimea (Kamuela) at 2,500 feet elevation — the highest brewery in Hawaii. Big Island Brewhaus uses volcanic island water and local ingredients to produce bold, complex beers far removed from the beach-bar mainstream. Their Belgian and dark beer program is Hawaii's most ambitious.

8Beers
5Styles
6.5%Avg ABV
2012Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 43%

Beers by Big Island Brewhaus

8 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 8 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 8 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
hoppy
6 of 8 beers
floral
4 of 8 beers
malty
4 of 8 beers
dry
5 of 8 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad8 beers · 5 style families
Lager 3IPA 2Porter 1Belgian 1Pale Ale 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesBig Island Brewhaus
in no beersin every beer
light
in 1 of 8 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less light than typical.
clean
in 3 of 8 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably less clean than typical.

Across 8 beers in 5 style families, 2 traits still carry through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 80%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 8
beers above the median
#1371
best ranked beer
Paniolo Pale Ale

Their beers place in the Top 80% of the catalogue on average, across 8 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Big Island Brewhaus

Big Island craft brewery founded in 2012 by Tom Kerns in Waimea (Kamuela) at 2,500 feet elevation — the highest brewery in Hawaii. Big Island Brewhaus uses volcanic island water and local ingredients to produce bold, complex beers far removed from the beach-bar mainstream. Their Belgian and dark beer program is Hawaii's most ambitious.

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