Maui Brewing Company

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Maui Brewing Company is the heavyweight of this list — Hawaiʻi's largest independent brewery, with a Kihei home base that's grown from a small operation into the kind of scale that lets its beer show up in grocery stores and bars well beyond Maui. It's the brewery most likely to be the first Hawaiʻi beer a visitor ever tastes. An overall score of 4.5 shows that scale hasn't come at the cost of quality — this is a big operation that still delivers, with a Kihei taproom built to handle real crowds without losing what made the beer good in the first place. It's a different experience than the small-batch spots on this list, more polished and more consistent, and there's real value in that reliability. Coconut Hiwa is the beer that put Maui Brewing on the map for a lot of drinkers — dark, coconut-forward, distinctly Hawaiʻi — while Double Overhead is worth ordering if you want something bigger and hoppier to balance it out. For visitors, this is close to a required stop, the biggest name in Hawaiʻi brewing on its home turf. For locals, it's the brewery that scaled up without losing the plot.

From the Tasting Ledger

Beers we've reviewed from Maui Brewing Company

Coconut Hiwa

Maui Brewing Co. // 8.3/10

Double Overhead

Maui Brewing Co. // 7.8/10