Estrella Damm Lemon Fruit Beer
Damm Lemon is made with the best ingredients, 6 parts Estrella Damm and 4 parts Mediterranean lemons and a slight touch of lime to make it even more refreshing.
Style:Fruit Beer
Vol: 330ml
ABV: 3.2%
Spitfire Amber Kentish Ale English Bitter
Spitfire Premium Kentish Ale is the biggest ale success story of the last decade. Originally brewed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, its characteristically Kentish, hoppy flavour and risque advertising campaign has made it a f
Chimay Blue Grande Réserve Belgian Strong Ale
Chimay Blue is principally distinguished by its character of a strong beer. This is a beer whose fragrance of fresh yeast with a light, flowery rosy touch is especially pleasant. Its flavour, noticed when tasting it, only accentuates the pleasant sensatio
Heroes Beer Co. Citrine & Embarrassador Yuzu Sour IPA
Meet Citrine and Embarrassador - Yuzu Sour IPA! You get hit with yuzu zest on the nose, followed by mangoes and peaches from the new world hops. It drinks with a gentle tartness that’s well balanced by the velvety body. Shines bright like a spotlight and
Heaps Normal Quiet XPA Alcohol Free
We've created a full-flavoured XPA without the downsides, so everyday legends like you can dial the good times up to 11 and still perform at their best the next day.
The Heaps Normal Non-Alcoholic Quiet XPA tastes like a delicious, refreshing beer. Tro
Estrella Daura Gluten Free Beer
Estrella Damm is the predominant brewery in Catalunya. Daura is the gluten free version of Estrella Damm. This golden lager style beer is crisp and refreshing. It currently holds the title of "best gluten free beer in the world" having won the category th
Young Master Ales x Carbon Brews x Good Beer Project Never Skip Leg Day Barrel Aged Belgian Quadrupel
Never Skip Leg Day is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between Young Master and Carbon Brews, together with Good Beer Project and Frederisdal Cherry Wines. A sinewy Belgian Quadrupel, this beer was buffed up in Frederiksdal cherry wine barrels imparting a su
St Bernardus Abt 12 Magnum
St. Bernardus Abt 12 is widely regarded as one of the best beers in the world. It is therefore no surprise that it is our brewery’s flagship beer, ranked at the very top of the St. Bernardus beer hierarchy. It is brewed in the classic quadrupel style and
Garage Project Sunrise Valley Hazy IPA
About Home & Away: A series of rebrews bringing some of our funnest overseas collaborations back to the Garage.
For this release we bring you Sunrise Valley, originally brewed in Canton, Massachusetts with east coast brewing legends Trillium using a ra
Suntory All-Free Can (0% Alcohol)
All-Free is an alcohol-free beer that you can drink without worrying about alcohol content, calories, or carbohydrates. It can be enjoyed in a wide variety of scenarios, by beer lovers who have plans the following day, are giving their liver a rest, or ar
8Wired Pflaume Lichtenhainer Plum Smoked Sour Beer
The Trans Tasman Collaborational is an initiative from Beer Jerk (NZ) and Carwyn Cellars (AUS) that has seen us team up with the legendary Australian brewery Rocky Ridge. After the usual long winded email chain with some wild ideas being thrown around we
Double Haven Adventurer IPA
This IPA is for all of you adventure seekers. Mountains of pilsner malt, and a whole pine forest of Herkules, Centennial, Chinook and CTZ hops await those looking for an adventure in flavour. Bitter and hoppy in the true spirit of an old-school west cost
Fuller's Vintage Ale 2019
Vintage Ale is a truly distinguished bottle-conditioned ale, crafted by Fuller’s Head Brewer, John Keeling. Each vintage is a blend of that year’s finest malt and hops, and of course our unique yeast, creating a unique limited edition brew.
Bottle condit
Garage Project Chipper Hazy Pale Ale
A cheerful, upbeat little hazy. Brewed with plump, juicy NZ grown barley and oats and a choice selection of our favourite hops to produce a smooth, easy drinking beer, loaded with lush tropical fruit juice flavour and aroma. Delicious - pure and simple.
Heroes Beer Hangry Donut Hopiscus Wheat
Hangry Donut was born with off the wall levels of goofiness. Over the years of hangrily battling the status quo during prohibition, she developed powers that can bring life to the most boring (aka beerless) objects at the touch of her finger tips. The goo
Behemoth Brewing If You Can Dodge a Hop, You Can Dodge a Hop Ball Hazy DIPA
I know you, you know you, you and I know you know that I know you. Oh, I don’t think I’m a lot hoppier than you thought that I think that I thought that I was once. We’ve made this big Hazy Double IPA that you can’t dodge. My team, allow me the pleasure o
Carbon Brews Crazy Rich Lupulins Double Hazy IPA
Super ripe tropical fruit on the nose with a burst of initial mango and papaya. The nose follows through to the palate with more intense tropical fruit flavors. Packs a punch at 8.2%.
Style: Double NE IPA
ABV: 8.2%
Volume: 330ml
Crabbie’s Original Ginger Beer
Best served chilled with ice and lemon, CRABBIE'S Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer provides a uniquely refreshing experience - only for grown-ups!
For more than 200 years CRABBIE'S has shipped its ginger from the Far East - following in the pioneering fo
Omnipollo Brewtrance Imperial Stout
Almost a decade since our last collaboration brew. Here is the follow up with our friends at To Øl, a barrel aged bourbon barrel aged milk stout brewed with extra amounts of marshmallow, hazelnut, salted caramel, coffee and coconut.
Style: Imperial Sto
Little Creatures Pale Ale can
The beer that inspired this crazy journey, ours is a hop driven Pale Ale bursting with flavour and aroma. Full-bodied yet refreshing, the bitter finish will leave your tastebuds craving more.
We were born to make Pale Ale, a style that was little known
Vilarnau Organic Cava NV, Sparkling, Alcohol Free, DO Penedes, Spain
Established in 1949, Vilarnau is a boutique and modern Cava producer with a touch of the avant-garde about it. Their style is heavily influenced by their proximity to the cosmopolitan and colourful city of Barcelona, and while the wines are touched by the
Good Beer Project Captain Wonder 1 x 20L PET keg
Good Beer Project believes that people want to do good, there just needs to be a more spontaneous, entertaining, and pleasurable way available. That's why, each beer sold donates 30% profit to a designated charity, can you guess which charity Captain Wond
Big Drop Pine Trail Alcohol Free Pale Ale can
A best-selling zesty, refreshing, gold award-winning Pale Ale.
This dry-hopped pale ale is deliciously refreshing. The nose has hints of pine and honey. Packed full of flavour from citrus-heavy hops with a twist of fresh lime to create a crisp, zesty bee
Craft Beer
Craft Beer
At The Bottle Shop, we select our craft beers based on their flavours. When we started our import and distribution service in 2012, craft beers were defined by the volume breweries produced annually. The definition of craft beer has changed over the past two decades, and the term has gotten murkier as smaller breweries are acquired by large beer companies. Craft beer in Hong Kong has come a long way. New world varieties were scarce, and most craft beers in Hong Kong were English bitters and Belgium sweet fruit beers. Nowadays, one can find beers from all over the world.
Our store focuses on award winning beers, both local craft beers, and those imported internationally.
Below are a few types of craft beer that are popular in Hong Kong:
Commercial Beers
Commercial beers certainly have their place in the market. At (rare) times we enjoy a commercial lager as much as the next person. But even within the selection of craft beer in Hong Kong, not all commercial ones are created equal. Some beers can be mistreated during its transportation and storage, and suffer from oxidation, UV light, over-heating, and the list goes on. Some beers have an overwhelming amount of esters that contribute to banana flavours, which isn't really pleasant.
Hoppy Beers
Synonymous with craft beers are Pale Ale, and Indian Pale Ale (or IPA). From these two styles come variations, including Extra Pale Ale (XPA), American Pale Ale (APA), Imperial IPA (IIPA), Double IPA (DIPA), Double Dry-Hopped IPA (DDH IPA), Triple IPA (TIPA), Hazy Pale Ale, Hazy IPA, Milkshake IPA, Black IPA, and the list goes on. What sets them apart are mostly the malt bill (the level and character of sweetness), and the hop bill (the amount and variety of hops). Traditionally, craft beers have higher levels of bitterness because the more hops are in the beers, the more bitterness there is. Recent IPA trend is less bitterness and more hop fruitiness (think Sauvignon Blanc but in beers). Local craft beers in Hong Kong are also hoppy forward, with low bitterness.
Since The Bottle Shop began operation ten plus years ago, the number of local craft beer brands has gone from zero to close to twenty - all thanks to hop forward IPAs.
Sour Beers
Sour beers have been one of the biggest trends in the craft beer Hong Kong movement, especially ones with very big fruit dominant milkshake style sours. Sour craft beers are much like sourdough bread, it's a re-conceptualisation of old techniques popularised by Belgium naturally fermented beers. Contemporary sour beers are deliberately spiked with lactobacillus to lower their pH.
The most popular styles of sour craft beers include Berliner Weisse, Gose, Flanders, Lambics, and Geuze. Many contemporary Gose or Berliner Weisse have loads of fruits added to them, along with other adjuncts like lactose or salt. Sour beers are great for summer sweltering weather for refreshment, but they're also amazing as companions to a meal, or even with vanilla ice-cream.
Dark Beers
Dark beers include Porter, Stout, Brown Ale, and so on. Dark beers are dark because brewers add heavily roasted barley in the brew, imparting roasted barley notes, coffee notes, chocolate, and nutty flavours. Craft beers that are dark doesn't necessarily mean they're bitter. Contemporary dark beers can in fact be sweet. You may have heard of pastry stouts, mud-cake stouts? These craft beers can have weird and wonderful adjunct ingredients, with equally exotic names, like imperial Porter brewed with Toasted Coconut and Maple Syrup, or Blueberry Hazelnut Coffee Cheesecake Stout. I guess you can't say craft beer is boring!!
The craft beer Hong Kong scene has been a dynamic and ever-changing environment. From its anemic beginning, to now an international hub of choices and an incredible array of local craft beers and breweries. Let us know if you can't find a craft beer you're looking for.
