Hawaii Roots
Kona Brewing Company is committed to the community and home of Hawaii. They have 170 employees working on the islands in the brewery, restaurants, and in the corporate offices. Being the oldest brewery currently brewing in Hawaii, the company stays true to their identity by creating beers that link to its local Hawaiian identity and use local ingredients.
- Rift Zone Indigenous Red Ale is brewed using yeast cultivated and found only on the volcano rifts from the Big Island.
- Pipeline Porter is brewed with 100% Kona coffee from their neighbor on the Big Island, Cornwell Estate.
- The ginger in their Big Island Ginger is cultivated in Kona.
- The Lemongrass in the Lemongrass Ginger Luau is grown on-site and at employees' houses.
- Cacao nibs for specialty beers are sourced from Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory.
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“The back meets the front.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2650, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)