Kona Brewing Hawaii
Kona Brewing Hawaii is the original Kona brewery in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island, founded in 1994 by Cameron Healy and his son Spoon Khalsa. Since 2020 it has been separate from Anheuser-Busch, owned by PV Brewing Partners and brewing only for the Hawaiian market. The Kona beers sold on the mainland come from a different company. In 2021 production moved into a new brewery with its own canning line down the street from the first pub. Pubs in Kailua-Kona and Hawaii Kai on Oahu complete the business.
Beers by Kona Brewing Hawaii
17 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Kona Brewing Hawaii brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 17 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.
Longboard Island Lager
Their beers place in the Top 66% of the catalogue on average, across 16 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Kona Brewing Hawaii
Kona Brewing Hawaii is the original Kona brewery in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island, founded in 1994 by Cameron Healy and his son Spoon Khalsa. Since 2020 it has been separate from Anheuser-Busch, owned by PV Brewing Partners and brewing only for the Hawaiian market. The Kona beers sold on the mainland come from a different company. In 2021 production moved into a new brewery with its own canning line down the street from the first pub. Pubs in Kailua-Kona and Hawaii Kai on Oahu complete the business.
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