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Kona Wailua Wheat

Kona Wailua Wheat

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28
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A Fruit Beer brewed by
Kona Brewing Company

Kailua Kona, Hawaii USA

bottled
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2392.79/5.02.79/5.0Special5.4%54.8Flute P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Limited release. Swimming in a fresh water pool at the base of a cascading waterfall is what we all imagine we would find in paradise. On Maui, follow the old Hana Highway and you will find such a place – Wailua Falls. This plunging cascade of clear water is the inspiration for our Limited Release Wailua Wheat. This golden, sun colored ale has a bright, citrusy flavor that comes from the tropical passion fruit we brew into each batch. Sit back, relax and enjoy paradise anytime.

Editor's Note: Lilikoi Wheat was renamed to Wailua Wheat (both on draft and in bottle).


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 garretjax (103), Colorado, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/510/20

Apr 17, 2008  
Clear pale golden color with a thin quick white head. Aroma mostly of tropical fruit, namely passion fruit and a hint of a herbal grassiness. Light body and lower carbnonation. Slight biscuity flavor with softer passion fruit notes. Finish is clean and quick.

brewski519 (84), Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Jan 8, 2009  
This beer pours a hazy almost pink color. The aroma definitely had a distinct passionfruit overtone to it with some wheat there as well. The taste was actually pretty solid - not overdone as I was expecting which made this brew very easy to drink. Very refreshing and tasty. I ended up enjoying this beer a lot more than I thought I would as I am not typically a big Fruit Beer guy.


 nuplastikk (578), Maryland, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/58/104/516/20
Dec 25, 2008  
12oz bottle. Cloudy murky pale yellow color. Some subtle wheat and fruit aromas. Very light stuff but with nice fruit and wheat subtleties that capture it from the wastelands of swill. Very likable and drinkable but that same lightness is its weakness. A little too light bodied. At the same time Id gladly drink five more.


 BeerHawk (864), Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Dec 22, 2008  
Bottle (Bottled on Apr 23 09) Poured a hazy pale with a thin white head. The aroma has wheat with a citrus backing. The flavor is much the same. Light body, slightly oily yet a lively carbonation.


popery (36), San Francisco, California, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/102/54/20
Dec 18, 2008  
Really did not like this one. Just because you can add passion fruit to beer does not mean you should. It smells of overripe, sickly sweet passion fruit with some rather unexciting wheat spice around the edges. The flavor follows through with the same theme. It seems like they made a mediocre wheat beer and then threw in some passion fruit syrup. Serve this one colder than proper or the passion fruit flavor begins to rot.


 Acknud (642), Morganfield, Kentucky, USA
0.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/52/102/52/20
Dec 18, 2008  
Yechhh. Couldnt finish it. It had too much of something and not enough of something else. It had some sort of bitter off taste and aroma to me. Probably it was from the passion fruit.



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