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MEDIA RELEASE Kona Brewing Company is excited to bring back live music concerts to their Brewhouse Oasis, welcoming classic country legend The Marshall Tucker Band in January 2014. The four island Hawaii tour, sponsored by Kona Brewing, will feature a rich tradition of classic Southern country rock, with a setlist including such favorites as “Heard […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The final numbers for Kona Brewing Company’s 2012 shipments point to continued steady growth in its home market of Hawaii, the U.S. mainland and abroad, which the company attributed to increased marketing of its flagship brand Longboard Island Lager. Shipments totaled 220,000 barrels in 2012, representing a gain of 47,200 barrels or 27.3 […]

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MEDIA RELEASE A hotel that uses seawater for its cooling system, a theme restaurant that uses recycled construction materials in its flooring and a Big Island brewery that gets nearly half of its electricity from solar panels were among 15 companies and government agencies recognized by Gov. Neil Abercrombie at the annual “Hawaii Green Business […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Dubbed by its organizing committee the “Come Hell or High Water” festival, the 2011 Kona Brewers Festival raised more funds for its community beneficiaries than ever before – $65,000 – despite occurring the day after the March 11 tsunami. The festival planning committee and The Bill Healy Foundation recently presented grant awards to […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The 16th annual Kona Brewers Festival indulges craft beer aficionados Saturday, March 12, tapping up 70 types of ales and lagers served alongside a cornucopia of island-style cuisine from 25 Hawaii chefs. The sell-out event, presented by Sunetric, Keauhou Veterinary Hospital, First Hawaiian Bank and Puna Geothermal Ventures, features craft beer, gourmet food, […]

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Panels provide power to brewery, restaurant; Suncharge Pale Ale now on tap

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MEDIA RELEASE On Saturday, Oct. 16, just as the sun was rising over the peak of Hualalai, Kona Brewing Company’s brewstaff unloaded and installed a 20-foot-tall, 4,000-pound 80-barrel fermenter. The new tank will allow the Kailua-Kona brewery a 1,000-barrel annual increase in capacity. Brewery roof panels were removed, allowing a crane to drop in its […]

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Serving up Suncharged Pale Ale at Sept. 20 pub celebration

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Kona Brewing Company has entered into a mutual agreement that will strengthen a nine‐year partnership with Craft Brewers Alliance, Inc. As a result of the agreement, Kona will become a wholly owned subsidiary of CBA. Kona will continue as a Hawaii‐based brewery and maintain its operations in Kailua‐Kona on the Big Island, but will now […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Kona Brewing Company’s Oceanic Organic Saison, Hawaii’s first and only certified organic beer, will make its bottle debut at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at the Kailua-Kona pub. Guests can sample the organic beer, purchase bottles for the first time, meet the brewers who crafted the beer and local artist Brendan Dunn, who […]

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Kona Brewing Company has announced its award-winning beer will be produced in glass bottles that are 11% lighter than before. The company, Hawaii’s largest brewer, has reduced its bottle weight from 8 ounces to 7.3 ounces for all Kona brands.

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Kona Brewing Company recently announced it has signed a contract with Sunetric to install a 229 kW solar energy generating system at its Kailua-Kona brewery and pub on Hawaii’s Big Island. Construction has begun on the system, and it is expected to be fully operational by April. Sunetric is the largest Hawaii-owned and operated commercial […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Kona Brewing Company is set to tap up Oceanic Organic Saison, Hawaii’s first certified organic beer. The brewery recently received organic certification for the beer from Hawaii Organic Farmers Association (HOFA) and brewed it last month. The beer will be available at Kona Brewing Company’s pubs in early January. “We are ecstatic to […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Kona Brewing Co. recently announced the addition of Steven Adyani as the Kailua-Kona pub general manager. Adyani has more than 17 years of management experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Most recently he served as chief operations officer at Arancino Restaurant Group in Honolulu. Prior to that, he held various management positions […]

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