Big Island Brewhaus

Tom followed his passion to the Big Island of Hawai’i… he and his wife Jayne dreamt of a brewpub in the upcountry town of Waimea and started turning the dream into reality in August of 2008 with the purchase of Tako Taco Taqueria, a sweet little Mexican restaurant in the heart of Waimea. While running the restaurant they made improvements (like building the bar and harvesting bamboo for the beer garden fence!) and built their brewery which had it’s grand opening on March 4th, 2011. Since then they and their team have continued to March Forth! Within 6 months Overboard IPA won a gold medal at the U.S. Open Beer Championships with silvers medals going to the White Mountain Porter and Red Giant in the same competition. 2012 brought more U.S. Open Beer Championship medals and their medal count in that competition in 2013 and 2014 was high enough to make Big Island Brewhaus one of only 2 breweries in the United States to remain on their Top Ten Breweries in America list for two consecutive years! 2014 also brought medals for Overboard IPA and Golden Sabbath at the World Beer Cup (the planet’s largest international beer competition) and a medal at the Great American Beer Festival (the largest competition in the world) for Golden Sabbath! Mele Maibock won a U.S. Open Beer Championship gold medal in 2015. Their White Mountain Porter earned U.S. Open Beer Championship silver medals in both 2016 and 2017 and another bronze medal in this competition in 2018!