Drinking Hawaiian
Posted at 1:38 pm on Monday, January 26, 2009, in Travels, and tagged beer.
It wasn’t my intention to make this a blog about beer; so it goes…
As my readers know — and are painfully and often reminded of so — I try to drink local when I travel. (I also try to eat locally, at least sample, but that is less exciting, unless you consider the time spent in the restroom.)
Kona’s ubiquitous Longboard Lager was the choice on draught. (Longboard is the premium beer sold at Oakland A’s games, the same price as a Coors Light, and is also the keg of choice around Maui for home brew, or so it seems.) I also got a six-pack of Kona’s Fire Rock Pale Ale (a first) for the beach, along with Mehana’s Mauna Pea Pale Ale. A stop at a beach-side bar in Ka’anapali included Keoki’s Sunset, an amber ale.
There are only twelve letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. All five vowels, plus H, K, L, M, N, P, and W. That’s right; no R, S, or T. We’d simply be screwed in the final round of Wheel of Fortune.
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January 31st, 2009 at 11:46 am
Best local beer I’ve tasted on vacation: Banks Beer, Barbados. Unfortunately not available at Bevmo.