Post #180305 by Rum Numb Davey on Wed, Aug 17, 2005 11:22 AM

I spoke to Steve this morning, and here is the update straight from the BIG Horses Mouth. The Okolehao that everyone knows was made in Mira Loma, California and distributed in Hawaii only by Paradise Beverages.

Sandwich Islands Distillers Corp. purchased the name and trademark from Hawaiian Distillers 4 years ago. The product on ebay is a liqueur and some bottles are still available in Hawaii. They had to stop selling since the label alludes that the product was produced in Hawaii.

In any event we have just completed building a new distillery in Paia on Maui and are in the process of making a real Okolehao by fermenting ti root, sugar from sugar cane, and breadfroot which was the moonshine formula originally made after the visit from Captain Cook to the Sandwich Islands in the late 1700.

In any event, this brand will be called Nine Islands Okolehao. They will also be making the Okolehao "whiskey-based" liqueur that everyone has seen or purchased prior only it will be made in Hawaii. I will be brokering BOTH of these products, and I implore veryone to go to their favorite bottle shop and ask them to stock these liqueurs. Then you have to buy them! Or it will certainly become discontinued, and a mysterious relic of Tiki cocktail mania. All the links of the adult beverage chain have to prosper for a liqueur to make it..supplier...importer...wholesaler...retailer.

When the end line consumer buys the product it becomes sustained.