Kona Big Wave
Kona Big Wave is the mainland Kona beer brand, owned by Anheuser-Busch and run from St. Louis. Its roots go back to 1994, when Cameron Healy and his son Spoon Khalsa founded Kona Brewing Co. in Kailua-Kona and brewed the first Big Wave, then called Pacific Golden Ale. Since 2020 the Hawaiian brewery has been a separate company, while the beers sold on the US mainland are brewed there under this brand. In 2023 the line was renamed Kona Big Wave, with a new logo and packaging.
Beers by Kona Big Wave
6 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Kona Big Wave brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 6 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Gold Cliff
Their beers place in the Top 64% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Kona Big Wave
Kona Big Wave is the mainland Kona beer brand, owned by Anheuser-Busch and run from St. Louis. Its roots go back to 1994, when Cameron Healy and his son Spoon Khalsa founded Kona Brewing Co. in Kailua-Kona and brewed the first Big Wave, then called Pacific Golden Ale. Since 2020 the Hawaiian brewery has been a separate company, while the beers sold on the US mainland are brewed there under this brand. In 2023 the line was renamed Kona Big Wave, with a new logo and packaging.
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