Looks like Kona Brewing is going green with its newly certified organic beer:

Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii — Kona Brewing Company’s Oceanic Organic Saison is Hawaii’s first certified organic beer. Kona Brewing Company’s brewery recently received organic certification for the beer from Hawaii Organic Farmers Association (HOFA) and brewed it last month. The beer will tap up at Kona Brewing Company’s pubs in early January. HOFA is a nonprofit organization that administers organic certification in Hawaii.

“We are ecstatic to be brewing the first certified organic beer in the state of Hawaii,” said Kona Brewing Company’s President and CEO Mattson Davis. “We strive to be environmentally conscious in all that we do – from serving locally grown organic produce whenever possible to feeding Big Island cattle the spent grain from our brewing process. We’re proud that both our pubs recently became Certified Green Restaurants® by the Green Restaurant Association. Reducing our environmental impact has become one of our primary missions. We have improved our efficiencies here in Hawaii and beyond in order to minimize our carbon footprint. It’s better for our guests, better for our business – and most of all, better for our planet.”

Oceanic Organic Saison is a Belgian style ale that was brewed with all organic malt, fermented with a custom blend of Belgian yeast strains and spiced with an abundance of organic hops, organic coriander and grains of paradise. The straw-colored unfiltered beer has a crisp, dry, quenching flavor and distinctive spicy aroma with notes of lemon peel, clove, white pepper, coriander and fresh hops complemented by pleasant cellar-like notes. The complex aroma is balanced by rustic hop flavor. The beer will be served on tap at Kona Brewing Company’s two pubs in Kailua-Kona and Hawaii Kai and at a few select Hawaii restaurants locations. It will be available in growler jugs at the Kailua-Kona Growler Shack. The brewery also will begin bottling Oceanic Organic Saison in 22-ounce bottles in spring of 2010.

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