#kona beer

[mapsoffun]

Our first proper meal in Hawaii! We were staying at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, and while the resort has a number of on-site restaurants, the only one we ever ate at was the Kona Tap Room right off the main lobby. Obviously we were expecting high prices given where we were, but the portions were at least generous for what they considered small plates and the food pretty tasty. The ahi poke nachos were a personal highlight, as I came into this trip with the intention of eating as much poke as possible while we were here, and this was a solid start. 

The main highlight, however, was the beer selection. Being familiar with Kona Brewing’s Big Wave Golden Ale, I was excited to try their IPAs, and the super-hoppy Kua Bay IPA was my personal favorite during our entire stay. (Clearly I’m not the only one, as it was seemingly everywhere we went.) The Castaway IPA was another highlight, while my husband tried the Hula Hefeweizen, the Hanalei IPA, and the Lavaman Red Ale but would come back to the Big Wave time and time again.

I’m glad I did my research ahead of time and found some places off-property that were an easy distance from the resort, as we were then able to try more local dishes and not fall into the lure of buying $36 dollar cheese pizzas (no, really).

[quick-release-velozine]

Scenes from a good week gone bad. April 2019. In no particular order.

[bairbrewing]

Review #19

Not my favorite. Kona’s Big Wave is just not a beer I think I’ll return to. Kind of salty? Weird flavors. Not horrid but not for me. 5/10

[deianaracrush]

Mfw when I see a beautiful Cascade volcano

[cakenoodle]

Right after work I booked it over to EastHonoluluFoodFestival. The boys were working an event and ur just there vibing with them. Enjoyed the all you can eat and drink specials while they went back2back with the music.

Katsu sando 808 - Tonkatsu & portabello sando

Kamitoku ramen with the beefy shoyu lite noodles.

These were the highlights of my night. So good 😮‍💨

P.s. I’m typing this on 22 hrs no sleep 😵‍💫

[out4more]

[foodroplets-drop]

Saturday Night Long Sunset 🌅

[arsnovacadenza]

Cure Maid Cafe is doing a collaboration with Bravern and the menu includes TWO drinks of naked Isami submerged in Bravern's green goop

(More pictures under the cut)

And here are the drinks in question:

Also they serve the Kona Beer from ep 1

[ziggyevenstar]

me n my walking green forest

🌱 sinundo namin sya sa kanila and then his parents gave us champagne hahaha. usap pa sina ate ko pati parents nya, super okay talaga sa families.

🌱 we rented an atv. dalawa lang yung gumagana so in demand sila dami nakapila, nag isa nalang kami. he was driving at first and i was just there drinking wine and enjoying the ride tapos bigla ako pinagdrive nya. buti nalang kase mas nagenjoy ako :)))) hanggang matapos time ako na pinagdrive nya kase tuwang tuwa daw ako hahhaa

🌱 after atv, nagswimming kami. super bitin, i wish we had more time. pero kase by this time i finished my bottle of wine na sa pool and baka need na namin mag grill kase nauna na minutes ago pa sina ate ko baka gutom na sila. eh si jerrel mag ggrill

🌱 nag grill siyaaaa!!! andun lang ako hintay hintay. inom inom ng beer. paypay ng charcoal ganon. nagbonfire din kame and then nagsmores kami hehehehe. super funnnnn🥹

🌱 tabi kami natulog hehehehe. kinuha ko lahat ng kumot apparently. super comfy magsleep together. pero siguro dahil na din sa tent na may beds na naka aircon pa hahahah

🌱 morning nag eat kami tapos nuod kami bridgerton ni jerrel sa bed, kumakain ng cup noodles hahaha. aaaaaaaah gusto ko ganito everydayyyy

🌱 pauwi si ate kona nagdrive tapos sleep lang ako sa lap ni jerrel. yun lang. bow

[should-have-been-at-the-club]

Round 1 Match 17: They Should Have Been At The Club Tournament

Propaganda below the cut.

Propaganda for Delia Ketchum:

Okay, timeline wise, she must have had Ash when she was pretty young. Still an adult, but going off of her son being eternally 10, she must have been 19 based off what the Pokemon wiki says. Her husband went off to go be a trainer sometime, so she was also a single mom. I think she absolutely deserves to have been at the club just for that, since she didn't really get to experience adulthood for more than a year before she had a child to raise. Also based on more scattered lore for her she also had some big dreams of her own that she put aside both to run a restaurant she inherited and to raise her son. She should have been pursuing those dreams AND at the club.

Propaganda for Lewis Smith:

(Spoilers for Bang Brave Bang Bravern)

One: He's just been through so much. He's so young (tumblr would tell you that 24 is old but that's a lie). He needs a break, he can't keep going through all this without some time off to have fun. He deserves to relax and flirt. I'm removing him from the battlefield and putting him in a club where he can drink Kona beer and dance badly and flirt with other men before realizing that the only man he wants to flirt with is the one he's been pining for since the beginning of the show. That's it, that's what the explosion did, it just brought him to a normal club without homicidal giant robots. He's fine.

Two: Big spoilers ahead! Also this is still an ongoing story!

First of all he's 24, prime club age. Second of all he just cannot get a break: during a normal military exercise he was part of, the Earth was attacked by aliens and a big part of his unit just died. Then the super robot that showed up to save the rest of them rejected him (Lewis is a big fan of super robot shows and tried to pilot the robot instead of the guy who was having a panic attack trying *not* to pilot the robot again). Then he gets his ass kicked by a comatose girl. Then he gets rejected by another super robot (he tried to play the role of the rival since he couldn't be the protagonist) and almost dies in the process. Then he realizes that the only way to save his friends from an evil super robot is to blow it up, and blows *himself* up at the same time. He might not be really dead, we don't know, there's some time travel bs going on. We're all still very sad. Also he apparently had a rough childhood (strongly hinted at by staff, should be shown in the series in a few episodes at most). Third of all he's very gay, I've rarely seen a character yearn so much for another man. We all think he'll end up being the love interest.

[bunny--manders]

hello, i saw this and thought you might find it funny!

Wow I sure am refreshed from drinking this Kona beer *slides bottle around so the label fully faces forward in close up* Ok now it's time to fuck that big gay robot

[ourlordapollo]

Was talking about my bottlecap collection on my Instagram and I figured I'd bring the party over here as well

My parents have always been big into local beer, so a lot of these are from Oregon breweries 🥰

And some of them have cool stuff on the flip side as well :) Kona brewing caps have Hawaiian vocab words, Widmer Brothers has things to toast (Prost), and Session has rock, paper, scissors (not sure how you're supposed to play it, though 🤔)

[coredrill]

you know propaganda really works cause never in my life have i seen so much dedication to an anime sponsor as i have in bravern fanarts with the kona beer 😭

[heyits-asher]

CLOSED STARTER for @keegan-andersxn where: some house party in Seabrook Quarter

Asher isn’t sure exactly how long he’s been sitting here, peering up through the trees at the expanse of stars and night sky. The moment is serene enough and sounds of the party indoors muted enough from the shut door that he’s at least briefly lost track of where he is. God, he wishes Gilly were there...

The peace, of course, doesn’t last, the can of Kona Big Wave on its way to feeling room temperature in its half-filled state. It has to be his fourth one to chase those two shots of vodka. The door opens to the deck he's sitting on, he sits back in the deck chair he'd been sitting in. "Nothing going on out here," He says calmly, without bothering to turn around or fully register who might be behind him. "Just finding time to appreciate the stars which is…" Ash sucks in a breath and finally takes a sip of his beer, then offers a wry smile to his new company.

"Hard to do when everything tilts back and forth." The can is held up to give a little shake as if to indicate his drunkenness then. "Still nice, though."

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[ponysoprano]

Also if you want my beer opinions for some reason: Sleeman honey brown ale is unmatched but I like a bubble stache or a bone tree or either of the Kona beers. Also like 50% of Collective Arts beers suck donkey dick but the cans are cool so I keep buying them and suffering my way through them