Hong Kong Beer

Brewed by The Hong Kong S.A.R. Brewing Co.
Style: Premium Lager
Aberdeen, Hong Kong

Serve in Lager glass

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UPDATED: FEB 6, 2013

330ml bottle bought from CitySuper in Habour City, Tsim Sha Tsui. Copper colour; No head, foam or lacing - absolutely zero! No carbonation either! This really took me by surprise. Medium to light body; Light smell of malt, some bread and sweetness; Taste is very weird - a mix of light malt, some unpleasant chemical used in oral medication, and a hint of fruitiness - not revolting but it doesn’t makes me feel comfortable. Only slight trace of bitterness, close to none most of the time. Slight dry after taste.

Comments: I thought I bought it as a gesture to support Hong Kong’s micro scene, instead, this is a bottle of liquid called ‘beer’ with no obvious characteristics of a half-decent macro lager, and its taste so weird I thought this is straight out from a hospital pharmacy. Tasted just half of it at the rest is drain pours. Prime candidate for RB’s “Worst Beer of the World”. Avoid.

Pours yellow and fizzy with a white head, No lacing. Malts in the aroma. Light body. Carbonated mouthfeel. Flavor is light hops and some spices,

Bottle- Pours a dark copper color with a decent head that fades to bits of lacing. Aroma of some citrus and malt sweetness. Taste of malt sweetness with a bit of fruit mixed in. Nice bitterness and a clean finish. Light body, crisp, quite smooth and refreshing. Not a bad beer. Good for a couple.

The better of the two HK beers I tried. There’s a prominent hop element here. Quite nice. Almost a pilsener.

Tried at a super upscale drinkery on the top of one of those Hong Kong Towers, poured quite chilled. Nice aroma of fruitiness on the nose, and malty sweetness. Charming orange-bright brown body with no head, even when poured by an expert waitress - thusly it should be poured headless, one would assume. Taste is a pleasant mix of sweet malts with some fruity touches. Okay mouthfeel. This is a decent beer, worth seeking out if you’re in the city.

UPDATED: FEB 10, 2012 Bottle in HK with Galligan. Fuller amber colour than usual for Chinese beer, some hops in the aroma, body is reasonably crisp with a decent if brief bitter finish. Nothing special but a lot better than most beers out this way.

Small white head. Yellow body. Fruity grassy aroma with citric oily notes. Dry-sweet grassy oily smoky (WTF?) taste with fruity notes. Mid-bodied. Faintly harsh mouthfeel. Dry grassy fruity smoky aftertaste with plastic notes. Not really a success. Weird. (0.33l bottle shared by hcalsos.)

Bottle.Very kindly bought back from Hong Kong by my son Adam and his girlfriend Sam. Clear and bronze with a small head. Dry at first with a gentle sweet finnish. Medium body, well balanced and easy to drink.

Super clear golden coloured body with a thinnish white head that leaves a pretty ugly lace on the side of the glass. Aroma of nice fresh malt, lemons, a touch of low a.a. hops, some raisins and a hint of coriander seed. Light-bodied; Sharp assertive hoppy taste up front with a mellow maltiness and a deep pungent grassy and barnyard flavour soon afterwards with a grassy bite at the end. Afterwards fairly bitter on the palate with the grass and bitter caramel coming through. Overall, a pretty bad beer, but when there aren’t many alternatives, this one was neat to try. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased at City/Super! Supermarket in the best city in the world: Hong Kong (off the Causeway Bay MTR stop), China on 26-August-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 21-January-2010.

Bottle and draft @ brewpub. Clear warm gold, effervescent but little head retention. Really nice clean aroma of herbal hop, dry. Pils-like character here with a crisp dry finish. Leafy, with a good hoppy finish.