Jamestown is soft in body and huge in character. Expect a bouquet of stone fruit and citrus, followed by flavours of papaya and pineapple on the palate. Vegan friendly!
Style: NEIPA
ABV: 5.9%
Vol: 330ml
Mango, Cherry, Pineapple, Key Lime, Marshmallow, Vanilla
Hop: Chinook, Mosaic Cryo
Vol: 500ml
Style: Sour IPA
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.
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.
Say mōrena to a hazy chorus of hops and malt from Aotearoa, the land that’s first to see the sun rise. Bursting with the bright fruits of Kōhatu, Nectaron and Riwaka and fused with a touch of zesty Motueka and Nelson Sauvin, it’s the perfect drop for anyt
This beer is a tasty catch for anyone hooked on Aotearoa hazy IPAs. Brewed with the essential Kiwi hop Nelson Sauvin and the rarely sighted Waimea hop, this hazy will reel you in with boat loads of ripe stone fruit flavours and a zesty piney finish.
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Westmalle Dubbel is a dark, reddish-brown Trappist beer with a secondary fermentation in the bottle. The creamy head has the fragrance of special malt and leaves an attractive lace pattern in the glass. The flavour is rich and complex, herby and fruity wi
The golden blonde Westmalle Extra is only brewed twice a year, primarily for use within the abbey. Westmalle Extra is the table beer served to the monks and their guests and is brewed with water, barley malt and hop cones. The Westmalle Dubbel and Tripel
Testmalle Tripel is a clear, golden yellow Trappist beer that undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle (9,5% alcohol). It is a complex beer with a fruity aroma and a nice nuanced hop scent. It is soft and creamy in the mouth, with a bitter touch c
Stowford Press combines century-old traditions with a flavor designed to appeal to more modern tastes.
A refreshing low alcohol drink which is carefully blended to give an authentic flavor to crisp apples. It is matured in old oak vats and then carefu
Trappist Westvleteren 12 brewed by Abdij Sint-Sixtus is a quadrupel beer with an alcohol content of 10,20%. Red-brown colour, clear. Full, creamy aroma. Rich, caramel-like and malt flavour palette.
Bitterness: Medium
Style: Quadrupel
Vol:330ml
ABV:1
Trappist Westvleteren 8 brewed by Abdij Sint-Sixtus is a dark beer with an Alcohol ntent of 8,00%. Red-brown colour, clear. Sweet, fruit aroma with a touch of melon.
Style:Belgian Strong Ale
Vol: 330ml
ABV: 8%
Appearance: Pours straw, light gold with a fluffy white head.
Aroma: Light floral notes with malt grain sweetness.
Taste: Moderately grainy malt with honey-like sweetness, floral hop character comes through with a light rounded bitterness and slightly d
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
Voss Boss Hazy Kveik IPA is brewed with Voss Kveik Norwegian farmhouse yeast, Citra, Eldorado and Yakima 586 hops. Intense aroma from the combination of the Voss Kveik yeast and Hops, citrus sweet candy fruit tangerine lychee finish.
Appearance: Golden
Meet the Blokequet – the beer brewed with earl grey blue flowers to start chats about mental health.
This new twist on a drinkable bunch of flowers is our new hazy pale gold, with a scant bitterness and explosion of ‘floral’ tropical and citrus fruit f
A light and easy drinking hazy pale ale bursting with juicy sun-kissed south pacific hops.
Lazy Slam is a pale, unfiltered session Hazy ale with bold tropical and white wine notes from the Nelson-grown New Zealand hops along with an American and Germa
Fresh & hoppy, yet rich & black. Mind-bendingly delicious and a true original.
Champion Beer, 2014 Hong Kong International Beer Awards
Champion Beer, 2012 Asia Beer Awards
Champion Beer, ‘Stouts & Porters’, Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards 200
A gorgeous and juicy tropical fruit filled hazy pale ale, bursting with dreamy new world hops.
Soft Bomb is a hazy pale ale that is as refreshing as a casual bomb off the local jetty on a hot summers day. The tropical fruit aromas come thick and fast,
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
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
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
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
Hong Kong Black, brewed with a true sense of place, inks a new chapter in the story of stouts. A modern-day expression, it has comforting layers of cocoa, city roast coffee and a whiff of caramel from the highest quality crystal malts that also lend it a
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 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.
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 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 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.