A short distance from downtown Honolulu is where you will find the rustic Honolulu Beerworks. It’s a pub and a brewery with a nice selection of beer food. Find 328 Cooke Street, Honolulu, and you are there.
The reviews are mixed for this place. Not bad or good mixed, it seems to be a question of what do people like the best. The beer is good, the food good and the ambiance equally as pleasing. All in all, a good place to make time for a visit.
Their Pia Mahi’ai Honey Citrus Saison “Farmers Beer” is everything a local craft beer should be. Take some Big Island honey and mix in local lemongrass, oranges, tangerines, limes and lemons, now you are on to something. It comes in at 5.7 ABV and 25 IBU, this one beer should be worth the trip, but there is so much more.
Animal Farmhouse Ale is another saison style beer. The Kewalos Cream Ale is the lightest of their offerings, extremely drinkable and full of flavor. Point Panic Pale Ale, Cooke Street ESB, Sheltered Bay IPA, Makakilo Brown Ale, South Shore Stout and the HI-PA (Hop Island IPA), at 7.2 ABV, round out the regular beers. Expect a handful of limited time beers and there you have it. It sounds like a flight of beer is in order at this brewery.
If a beer lover is accompanied by a not so much a beer lover, no problem, wine and non-alcoholic drinks are also served.
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