Pepe's Beer Blog

Back on track, with Memorial Day Weekend and my birthday during the past 7 days, that puts a few more beer entries into the blog. 154. Big Wave Golden Ale - Kona Brewing - Kailua-Kona, HA - 4.4% ABV An easy drink. I feel like this would be a better beer with food than on its own, though. 155.  Kellerbier - Sam Adams Boston Brewing - Boston, MA - 5.0% ABV A new kind of beer, so I get to add something to the list.  I honestly didn't know what a Kellerbier was before this, but it was delicious.  Not as deep an oak taste as oak barrels usually are, but that would be because it is tapped early in the process.  Still pretty delicious. 156.  Longboard Lager - Kona Brewing - Kailua-Kona, HA - 4.6% ABV Very delicious lager, and very versatile.  Good with richer foods, or lighter snacks, or just to have some beers. 157.  Castaway IPA - Kona Brewing - Kailua-Kona, HA - 6.0% ABV Very tasty, but not so much as an IPA.  It has some of the hoppy kick we like in IPAs, but not enoug

So it has been approximately 1,258 days in quarantine, and thus since my last post.  The number of beers has not been as astronomical since March 10 as it should be, as I have been drinking a lot of the same beers over and over - the best that my local liquor store has to prevent me from travelling all over town just for new beers.  The plus side - two new breweries have opened up in the past month, and these two are now the closest to my house.  And although I am not technically allowed to have gone inside since bars and breweries are closed, I have ventured inside to order growlers/crowlers to go, so I have had the chance to try some new beers.  I will definitely patronize these places again to include them in the brewery rankings. 7.2 And, since it has been so long, all of my memories of each beer has faded some, so other than my really concise notes, the analysis on most of these will also be quick, but to me this has been all about the rankings anyway. With these caveats, her