Maui Brewing Company Tour

ALOHA!

Just recently, we were fortunate enough to take a trip to Hawaii.

  

Hawaii was incredibly beautiful, relaxing and definitely one of the best vacations I have ever had.  It also didn't hurt that during our week long stay on Maui, we took a brewery tour =).  Not at all like us, I know, but when on vacation...

Coming home sucked!

Below are pictures of our tour.  

Palates of Cans

All of their production is based out of this one location on Maui and all of the beer ships out in either kegs or cans.  No bottles.

Why no bottles?  Because cans are recycled more efficiently.  Cans are also lighter, which helps in shipping costs.  Finally, and in my opinion, most importantly...

...cans are safer the beach!  No one likes broken glass in the foot.

Maui Brewing Company experiments with all sorts of brews, both ales and lagers.  You heard that right - lagers.  In Hawaii.  Our tour guide said that at the end of the day, locals love themselves a nice, cold brewed lager.  

Their most popular lager is a very delicious Bikini Blond.  Their other top sellers include a Coconut Porter, a Big Swell IPA and my personal favorite the Mana Wheat, which is brewed with pineapples!

Considering the size of the facility, their production numbers are very impressive.  They only have a few fermentation tanks and a lager room.  Even the canning is all done on-site

The Kegs

 They have a ton of delicious beers.  One of them even includes chipotle peppers in their brew ("Hot Blonde").  A full list of their beers can be seen here.  There wasn't a bad beer on the "board."  More on this later.

Fermentation Tanks

The Maui Brewing Company guys will be visiting us in DC this summer at the SAVOR (June 8-9th) 

[side note: yours truly and her handsome beau will also be attending Saturday night.  Will you be there too?  Send us a tweet at @brewmeacoldone ].  

The Maui Brewing Company will be hosting a salon on their beer.  More information on their salon can be found here.  If you can, I would definitely recommend checking them out.

My Favorite Hawaiian Beer

Lager Room

Big Swell IPA

Tap Van!

After taking the tour, and getting many samples of their delicious offerings, we headed to the Maui Brewing Company Brewpub (see the board of their offerings above).  I have to say, the experience there was almost as much fun as the tour itself.

Remember we were talking about the "board."  Check it out - the bar was a cold plate, which was an icy slab, coated in "snow," where you could set your beer to keep it cold!

We need some of these in DC!  And everywhere else for that matter!

As you can see, we had a little too much fun with the cold plate =)

Finally, I would like to give a quick shout out to the folks at "HI, I like you".  We met John, the owner of this awesome brand at the Maui Brewing Company Brew Pub, and had a blast with them!  I was sure to buy one of their T-Shirts (and it looks awesome!).  Thanks again!  You can find out more about their awesome brand here:

HI, I Like You

and I like Hawaii =)

and their beer.  Especially their beer.