Hong Kong Beer Co. Big Wave Bay IPA
A hop lover’s d elight! Big, bold , aromatic West Coast IPA with tropical, citrus, and stone-fruit flavours and aromas and a balanced malt backbone. Finishes dry for incredible drinkability. Be careful - you’ll hardly notice its 6.5% ABV!
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Morning Cider Morning Cider
Crisp, dry, and delicious, this refreshing drop is our original, signature cider - virtuously simple, yet everything you could ever want in a canned beverage.
The artwork on the OG Cider can is inspired by the commissioned 'hand of God' mural on the d
Gweilo Non Alcoholic Pale Ale Can
Gweilo Pale Ale but not as you know it. This is a light, citrusy, alcohol free pale ale. We use Cascade hops to create an intense tropical fruit aroma. This is followed by a crisp, refreshing bitterness which doesn't linger, resulting in an extremely drin
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
Yardley Brothers Machine Men Pale Ale
Viscous mouth feel, juicy tropical fruit explosion balanced by low bitterness, a smooth and complex finish.
Award for Best Session IPA, Hong Kong International Beer Awards 2017. AIBA Design Award 2019.
Appearance: Rose gold, crystal clear, fresh white h
Greene King Abbot Ale Reserve
From the master brewers of Abbot Ale comes Abbot Reserve, a super-premium beer that is matured for longer to create a distinctive full-bodied beer, bursting with fruit cake and toffee flavour. Perfect to sip and savour.
Very full bodied, rich and sweet
Young Master 1842 Island Imperial IPA Can
hoppy, complex, robust
The Island 1842 is an Imperial IPA designed for those who prefer a bold and powerful drink. Our goal with this beer was to coax out and showcase every nuance that our outsized malt and hop bill had to offer. This beer’s hop charact
Neonotic! Just Peachy Cider
Auntie Apple has made a peachy new friend
A Harmonious coupling of peach and apple. A warm and fuzzy cider with aromas of baked peaches, tropical fruit flavour, and a juicy peach finish.
Style: Cider
ABV: 4.6%
Vol: 330mL
Neonotic! Apple cider
Curiously tart with a touch of acidity brilliantly balanced against a medium-sweetness to give a refreshingly clean finish. Notes of tropical pineapple, fresh acidic apple, and a hint of mango.
ABV: 5.6%
Vol: 330ml
8Wired iStout can
The "I" might be in lower case, but beware - this is a capital beer. Brimming with luscious roasted coffee and chocolate malt flavours, iStout is balanced by a brisk bitterness and bold hoppy freshness. As with all our beers, this beer is a very modern in
HK Lovecraft Space Rock Rauchbier Lager
Rauchbier, an old lager styled in the untouched town of Bamberg where people drink it exclusively to this day. our revised recipe brings a beech-fired and softly charred barley, balancing the smoke and caramel to unlock the rich maltiness with a hoppiness
HK Lovecraft King in Yellow Helles Lager
Helles, the bright beer, a lager of German fashion, golden and clean. made from choice malt, hops and a lager yeast, our tailored taste in treated water, and unfiltered, retaining all the flavours of the ingredients that had long entranced mankind.
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Young Master Classic Pale Ale can
A true classic that won’t ever go out of fashion. The Classic Pale Ale is designed to be versatile – you can drink this all day and in all seasons. With an elegant balance of European malts and new world hops, this has just enough fullness blanked with ze
Young Master Cha Chaan Tang Gose Can
refreshing, salty, sour
A classic sour and salty gose brewed with salted lime (鹹檸) commonly found in local Cha Chan Tengs in Hong Kong and served with lemon sodas. A perfect refreshing respite from the local humid weather, this beer will please beer geek
Rochefort 6 Trappist Beer
This Trappist beer finds its origins in the pre-war bottled beer destined for the sick and infirm. But further back, 1899 was the year that first saw the monks of Saint-Remy in Rochefort light the fire under their kettles, in their new, small brewery. The
St Bernardus ABT 12
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
Verhaeghe Duchesse de Bourgogne Flanders Red Ale 250ml
Duchesee de Bourgogne is the traditional top fermented reddish-brown ale from the West-Flanders region of Belgium. This refined ale also known as "The Burgundies of Belgium" is a blend of 8 and 18 months old ales following careful maturation in oak casks.
Hanssens Oude Kriek
This is the result of blending black cherries lambic of different ages followed by a second fermentation in the bottle. Storage is similar like geuze. All bottles are champagne corked and can be reserved, in normal conditions, for more than thirty years.
Young Master Another One Session IPA Can
All Day Session Ale Crushable, juicy and refreshing, you will always want another one of this delightful session ale.
Style: Session IPA
ABV: 3.3%
Vol: 330ml
Rodenbach Alexander Aged in Oak Foeders Red Ale
Flanders Red Ale- a blend of 1/3 young and 2/3 two-year old ale matured in oak foeders, that is macerated with sour cherries.
Style: Red Ale
ABV: 5.65
Vol: 750ml
Gweilo IPA Can
Gweilo IPA is a distinctive and contemporary India Pale Ale, crafted for Hong Kong. Brewed with a blend of Idaho 7 and Motueka hops, it offers a vibrant nose of citrus, stone fruit, and tropical fruit aromas. These flavours are enhanced by a light malt ba
Gweilo Pale Ale Can
With our Pale Ale, we have combined the crisp and refreshing characteristics of a lager, the citrusy aromas of tropical Asian fruits and the flavour of a light ale. Gweilo believes this Pale Ale could be the catalyst to help the people of Hong Kong upgrad
Boon Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait
Boon Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait is a Gueuze style beer brewed by Brouwerij Boon in Lembeek, Belgium. It consists of 95% mild lambic, aged at least three years and specially reserved for this purpose, and 5% young lambic. The latter provides the fermentabl
Fuller's Vintage Ale 2021
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.
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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.