2022 Advent Calendar Beer Boxes are Available to Pre-Order!

PRE-ORDER YOUR 2022 BEER ADVENT CALENDAR TODAY!

UPDATE - SOLD OUT - Please call the shop to get on the waitlist 808-369-0688

***PRE-ORDERS ONLY - Box pick up will be between 11/20 - 12/1***

Our Holiday Beer Box is back for 2022.  This year again we have a true 24 day Beer Advent Calendar Box loaded up with 24 different beers our staff has carefully selected. It's a variety of styles and features some of our favorite seasonal releases that are sure to get you in the holiday spirit.

These boxes are beautifully designed and the perfect gift for any beer lover. Each case features a perforated top so you can open up a single beer each day without having to shuffle through the other beers in the box and keeps each day's beer a total surprise.

The Village 2022 Advent Calendar Beer Boxes are super limited and hand packed by The Village Idiots. Last year they sold out so don’t wait to get your pre-order in ASAP!

INCLUDES:

• 24 unique 12-16 oz bottles or cans of craft beer

• Custom-printed Advent Calendar beer box

PRE-ORDER: October 21 - November 11

PICK-UP: November 20 - December 1

Village Idiots 6 Beer Lab HI Double Hazy IPA Release

We can’t believe it is that time again already. Are you ready for Village Idiots 6!

We’ve teamed up with Beer Lab HI again this year to brew our favorite beer. A proper hazy double IPA loaded up with copious amounts of Chinook, Cryo Chinook, Cryo Pop Galaxy and Strata. It’s sticky icky and juicy all at the same time. Soft and lovable, yet bold and feisty all at the same time…just like us!

4 pack cans will be available to purchase starting on THURSDAY, AUGUST 18th (online and in shop). As always, supplies are limited so order online to secure your packs. Draft starting on Saturday, August 20th, for our big 6th anniversary bash featuring DJ Slopoke and The Elevations.

Super rad T-shirts also available online. Can’t thank @masaartistry enough for the sick designs.

Lets get it friends. Remember #smileitsbeer and to #drinkforgoodtimes

Your friends,

The Village Idiots

Job Opening June 2022 - Beertender

Are you ready to join the team at Village Bottle Shop & Tasting Room? If so, then check out the details below for our open positions.

BEERTENDER

Village Bottle Shop & Tasting Room is the first dedicated craft beer bottle shop and beer cafe in the state of Hawaii. Village will feature 500+ meticulously curated beers that can be purchased for consumption on site or purchased for takeaway as well as 18 constantly rotating taps and 8 wines on draft.

We are seeking craft beer enthusiasts with serving experience to join our team as craft beer servers. You must have a passion for craft beer; the ability to work a flexible schedule (evenings, weekends, holidays); the desire to provide an exceptional tasting room experience, all while promoting an understanding and appreciation of the art, history and culture of craft beer. We’re looking for team players who are dependable, fun, friendly, energetic and authentic. If you are a beer enthusiast, passionate about craft beer, we invite you to explore this amazing opportunity to join our team. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Welcome guests to the tasting room in a warm and enthusiastic manner

• Relay information about beer genres and recommend beer styles to our guests

• Clean, clean, clean

• Adhere to safety, sanitation and responsible alcohol service policies and procedures

• Handle cash and operate the POS system

• Change kegs, stock shelves,

Job Requirements, Skills and Qualifications:

• Be a beer enthusiast, passionate about craft beer

• Have a positive attitude and outgoing personality with excellent communication skills

• Beertending or bartending: 1 year

• Cicerone Beer Server (Level 1) certification a plus and completion after hire is required.

• Be at least 21 years of age

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to multi-task and shift priorities with a focus on providing an exceptional guest experience

• Guest service oriented with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

• Be motivated, hard-working, safety-minded and innovative with a commitment to representing and enjoying in the culture and success of Village.

• Experience working with POS systems

• Ability to stand and walk for up to 8 hours at a time

• Ability to routinely lift and move up to 75 pounds

• Ability to change kegs and knowledge of beer draft systems

• Ability to bend, stoop, push and pull

• Availability to work a flexible schedule, including days, evenings, weekends and holidays

Interested candidates please submit a resume and cover letter to info@villagebeerhawaii.com. Please include the following information in your cover letter:

• Why are you interested in Village Bottle Shop & Tasting Room?

• What are your short and long term goals and how does this position help you get there?

• Why should we consider you?

**Applications Accepted Until This Role Is Filled**

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Village Botlte Shop & Tasting Room strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

Village Customer Loyalty Points Now in Square

We’ve got some incredible loyal customers and since day one we have believed in rewarding your patronage. We’re happy to announce that we’ve switched our loyalty points program from Fivestars to Square. For any customer who had points in Fivestars, don’t worry, we have transferred all existing points into Square for you.

There are a number of great benefits with the new Square progam. No more punching in your phone number after every transaction. Points automatically added to your account with every transction, even online ones! You get to choose and see which rewards are available at every transaction. You can even use rewards with online purchases.

The great news is if you had a Fivestar account with Village, there is nothing for you to do. We have already transferred your number and points into Square. Your account is linked to your phone number and you can even link your points to a specific credit card. Use the card to make a purchase and the Square system knows to automatically add the points to your account.

We think you’re going to love the simplicity and ease of Square Loyalty. You can check the status of your account, point total and available rewards online here:

CHECK YOUR POINTS

It’s also super easy to check your points in the shop. Just tap on the payment screen and enter in your phone number. Check it out next time you are in.

Hana Koa Brewing and Village Crush Helles Vol. 3 Release

Three years ago, we called up our friends at Hana Koa and suggested we brew a collaboration beer. We don’t make beer at Village. We sell a ton of it, but we’ve never had any intentions of becoming a brewery. But, we sure love to get into a brewery, work on a recipe and create something beautiful.

As we sat down and chatted with head brewer/owner, Josh Kopp, about what beer we should brew the conversation kept drifting to simplicity. See, we share a deep love and passion for German style lagers with Josh. They are not the easiest or cheapest beers to brew, but there is something magical about the lager process and how a few simple ingredients can be transformed into something amazing.

Hana Koa had been dabbling in brewing some great lagers so we decided to take a stab at making a classic German style Helles. This is a beer meant for drinking…a lot of drinking. There isn’t much in a Helles. Simple malts, a small amount of hops, water and yeast. Done right, a Helles is one of the easiest drinking, most enjoyable beer styles to have. The key is doing it right. That takes precision process, anal attention to detail and a whole lot of patience. All things Josh and the team at Hana Koa have plenty of.

Here we are three years later releasing Vol. 3 and it is the best batch yet. This year’s batch got to spend many, many weeks in a horizontal lagering tank. These are special tanks that lay horizontal instead of the traditional vertical orientation. This allows more surface area on the top and bottom of the tank and gives the suspended yeast more room to toil and means less stress and pressure for those single-cell workhorses.

Happy yeast and a lot of time is what makes this beer so clean and satisfying. No fining agents were used to clear up this beer. Just time and cold temperatures. Brilliantly pale yellow in color with a wonderful fluffy white head of foam. At a mere 5.2% abv, take some time to enjoy this one, because it is way to easy to down it in a few sips.

We hope you enjoy Crush Helles Vol. 3 as much as we do. Cans are now available to purchase in the shop or online and we’ll be pouring on draft until it runs out. Also swing by Hana Koa Brewing to snag cans or draft.

2021 Advent Calendar Beer Boxes are Available to Pre-Order!

Pre-Order Your 2021 Beer Advent Calendar Today!

UPDATE: SOLD OUT!!!!

***PRE-ORDERS ONLY - Box pick up will be between 11/21 - 12/1***

Our Holiday Beer Box is back for 2021.  This year again we have a true 24 day Beer Advent Calendar Box loaded up with 24 different beers our staff has carefully selected. It's a variety of styles and features some of our favorite seasonal releases that are sure to get you in the holiday spirit.​

These boxes are beautifully designed and the perfect gift for any beer lover. Each case features a perforated top so you can open up a single beer each day without having to shuffle through the other beers in the box and keeps each day's beer a total surprise.

The Village 2021 Advent Calendar Beer Boxes are super limited and hand packed by The Village Idiots. Last year they sold out so don’t wait to get your pre-order in ASAP!

INCLUDES:

• 24 unique 12-16 oz bottles or cans of craft beer

• Custom-printed Advent Calendar beer box

PRE-ORDER: October 18 - November 10

PICK-UP: November 21 - December 1

The Journey of Kō - The Making of Pakeweli Tripel with Aloha Beer Co. & Kō Hana Rum

Kō - Saccharum - Sugarcane. A simple plant that grows like a weed in Hawaii and has shaped the island’s history in so many way. For many, cane is a link to the past when plantations dotted the islands and provided work and opportunity for so many. For others, like Kō Hana Rum it is a living link to ancient Hawaii when Polynesians brought the plant on their canoes to the new lands they were discovering.

This project started with a trip to Kō Hana’s facility in Kunia. Our goal was to pick out a single barrel and single varietal rum that would be exclusive to Village. The love, passional and dedication that the Kō Hana team puts into their rum has inspired us at Village for a long time and we were humbled to be able to select our very own barrel.

Our team was guided by Kyle Reutner of Kō Hana Rum, who hand selected a number of barrel samples. Each barrel is filled with rum made with a single heritage variety of cane. Kō Hana has meticulously categorized and re-discovered cane varieties that were grown and propagated by the ancient Hawaiians. Each variety has unique qualities differing in taste, color and aroma. The barrels we were choosing from were filled with rum distilled from Pakeweli, a beautiful cane with purple tiger stripes on the stalk.

After a lot of careful sipping, smelling and swirling we came to a consensuses that barrel 1291 was the winner. We loved the vibrant notes of cotton candy, vanilla, orange marmalade and the hint of spices like anise and white pepper. It was time to get this juice bottled up. Half stayed at cask strength, or 60.8% abv, while the other half we had cut down to 45% abv. While the bottles of Kila and Koho got ready, we started to focus on the second half of this project and the continued journey of barrel 1291 and Pakeweli.

Now it was time for this barrel to live a second life. We reached out to our close friends at Aloha Beer Co., to work on a beer that would showcase not only the barrel but also the pakeweli cane. Our goal was to showcase the cane in both the rum and a beer. To our delight Aloha jumped at the chance to work with Village and Kō Hana Rum. After a few discussions we all decided on brewing a Belgian style Tripel. A style light in color that really focuses on the bright fruit and spice characteristics created from the yeast used in fermentation. Many of these flavors are similar to the ones in pakeweli. Traditionally processed white sugar is used in the brewing process of this style, but we decided to replace that with freshly pressed pakeweli cane juice.

Along with Aloha Beer’s Kaiao Archer, we ventured out into Kō Hana’s fields in Kunia to cut stalks of pakeweli in the sweltering summer sun. With a few pointers and safety tips from Kyle, we got to cutting and striping the cane stalks. Unlike large cane plantations that burn their fields, Kō Hana hand cuts their harvest. It’s very hard and hot work, but it better preserves the juices in the cane stalks. After we filled the truck up, it was back to Kō Hana’s facility to press each stalk to extract all of that sugary goodness. With a hand from the pressing machine we quickly had 10 gallons of sweet cane juice.

The 10 gallons of freshly pressed pakeweli cane juice was added to the brew and after primary fermentation we transferred a portion of the beer into our barrel to sit and soak up those flavors for 6 weeks. We decided to keep the barrel aging period shorter since this is a beer light in color and we didn’t want the barrel to over power anything.

The results? From 1 field, a single cane variety helped create 2 amazing locally crafted drinks. We are excited to release both beers along side the rum on Friday, September 17th at Village. A journey of 1 locally grown product that can be tasted side by side in different forms.

Bottles of Village’s Single Barrel Pakeweli Ko Hana Rum can be purchased online to enjoy at home as well!

Oahu Safe Access Mandate - How Will it Work at Village?

Effective Monday, September 13th, the City and County of Honolulu is requiring all employees & customers to provide proof of full vaccination for COVID 19 or a negative test result. These are brand new restrictions and rules that we as a business must follow in order to stay open and keep our business alive and our employees working.

If you do not agree with these mandates PLEASE take that up with the Mayor and your City Council member. We did not make these rules and complaining to our employees will not solve anything.

This applies to all seating in the TASTING ROOM (inside and outside). For BOTTLE SHOP info scroll to the bottom.

TASTING ROOM
Acceptable proof of vaccination:

• a hard copy of a state-approved vaccination card;

• a photograph/digital copy of a state-approved vaccination card; or

• a Hawai‘i state-approved digital/smart device application confirming full vaccination status (including via the Safe Travels program/application or Hawai‘i SMART Health Card or SMART Health Card Verifier App).

• Identification with the same information as the proof of vaccination is required.

Negative Test Results

• A negative test result must be a U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization, or approved molecular test, or antigen test taken within 48 hours of entry to a business included in this emergency order.

• And identification with the same information as the negative COVID-19 test.

Children under the age of 12 are exempt.

No other exemptions.

BOTTLE SHOP

• No proof required while shopping. We ask that you limit your time to 15 minutes max.

This is a CITY requirement and for more info please visit https://www.oneoahu.org/safe-access-oahu

Mahalo again for your understanding, patience and continued support. We are required to follow these new rules. We love and respect all of you and we will do our absolute best to continue to serve you with Aloha. Please be kind and respectful to everyone as we try to navigate these new rules.