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Kohola Brewery

Wailea, Hawaii, Hawaii, USA

ClosedSingle breweryMicrobrewery
Founded
2015
Closed
Year unknown
Archive ID
TB-NZB60MBT
Last checked
Not yet checked
#Hawaii#Independent

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From the record

Summary

Originally based in Lahaina; their production facility was destroyed in the 2023 Maui wildfires. They have since relocated their taproom to Koholā brewery facility was destroyed in the 2023 Lahaina wildfire; current first-party Lāhainā Brewing material carries the Koholā Series and successor operation.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

Tally’s Take

Their Lahaina production facility was destroyed in the 2023 wildfires and they reopened in Wailea. Rebuilding is not a marketing story — it is just what they did.

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The Museum

Timeline

  1. 2015
    Founded

    Kohola Brewery begins brewing in Wailea, Hawaii.

  2. 2023
    Milestone

    Originally based in Lahaina; their production facility was destroyed in the 2023 Maui wildfires.

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The People

Behind the beer

Bo Montgomery
Founder

Maui independent craft brewery.

04

The Beer Library

Beers

Talk Story

Year-Round

American Pale Ale

ABV5.2%
IBU35

Talk story is Hawaiian pidgin for sitting and talking at length with no particular purpose. Naming the session beer after it is exactly right.

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Show your working

Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record taken from Tally's Hawaii master, Pass 17, which cited https://koholabrewery.com/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.

    Tally's Hawaii master, Pass 17 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026

    CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19

Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.

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Straight answers

Common questions about Kohola Brewery

Is Kohola Brewery still open?
No. Kohola Brewery has closed. The archive has not established the year it stopped. Originally based in Lahaina; their production facility was destroyed in the 2023 Maui wildfires. They have since relocated their taproom to Koholā brewery facility was destroyed in the 2023 Lahaina wildfire; current first-party Lāhainā Brewing material carries the Koholā Series and successor operation.
When was Kohola Brewery founded?
Kohola Brewery was founded in 2015 in Wailea, Hawaii, USA.
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