Letters to the Editor: 02-11-20

Rethinking cruise ships amid coronavirus

We have all been reading about cruise ships and the coronavirus. Will we continue to allow passengers from cruise ships docked in Kailua Bay to leave the ship and spend a day in Kailua-Kona, or should we rethink this until we have a clearer picture of the evolving health crisis?

Nancy Redfeather

Honalo

What about beer?

Some residents want the State of Hawaii to establish a regulation that there shall be a minimum of 51% Kona coffee in all Kona coffee products produced and sold. Presently it’s a mere 10%.

Great idea, but what about other products?

Shouldn’t Kona beer also contain a minimum amount of Hawaii ingredients?

All of Kona Brewing Co’s beers that are currently sold in bottles or cans here contain zero amount of Hawaii ingredients. They’re shipped in from the mainland.

The draught-only beers contain ingredients that are produced, grown or manufactured locally. It seems they like to fool the public into thinking that the bottles and cans of beer contain local ingredients and nothing else as well. If they believe it, then why have they settled a class action suit claiming the opposite?

Even the names of the beers imply that they were produced from locally sourced ingredients.

And the price of the cans and bottles are way out of line with other American-brewed like products. They’re even higher than some imported beers.

Liquid Aloha, I don’t think so.

Michael Last

Naalehu