Gweilo Beer

Client Brewer in Fo Tan, New Territories, Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Established in 2015

Contact
Unit 1713, Wah Wai Industrial Centre, 38-40 Au Pui Wan St, Fo Tan, Hong Kong
Subsidiaries
Gweilo Beer owns 1 brewery/brand:
Description
Gweilo was founded by husband and wife Ian and Emily and their friend Joseph, who each shared a simple dream: to create fun, fresh, natural, unpasteurised beers for the people of Hong Kong and Asia to enjoy.

We originally started contract brewing our Pale Ale, IPA and Wit beers in 2015, then in June 2017, our friends at BCI, who we met whilst home brewing in Hong Kong, acquired a minority stake in Gweilo and subsequently funded and managed the building of our flagship brewery, which opened in March 2018. We have a state of the art facility with a 3500L 4-Vessel brew deck, 115000L cellar, centrifuge, rotary canning and bottling lines and a lab. Head of Brewing Operations, Brian Leslie. Supporting him is an experienced team of brewers and packaging specialists. Now things are getting serious.

We have a Core Range of six beers, a Limited Range, a Collaboration Range and in time, we’ll be introducing barrel ageing and sour programs.

Our core range is true to our British roots, formed of session style brews ranging between 4% and 6%ABV. Keeping approachability at the heart of this range, we have a Pilsner, Pale Ale, Session IPA, Hoppy Wheat, Citrus Crusher and American IPA.

Our Limited and Collaboration ranges enable us to unleash our inner beer geeks and experiment. We intend to continually push the boundaries, brewing beers which take people on a journey through the wonderful and diverse world that is craft beer.

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Draft at Hong Kong Island Taphouse, Hong Kong. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of fruity hops, malt and caramel. Flavour is light moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Tried from Draft at Hong Kong Island Taphouse on 05 May 2019 at 17:53

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Tap at the Hong Kong Island Taphouse. Poured crystal clear golden colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is malt, grassy citrus, mango, light hop. The flavour is moderate sweet with a crisp, fruity, dry hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried from Draft on 05 May 2019 at 15:25

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Bottle from Jason’s food hall, Kowloon. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin broken off white head. The aroma is light grainy caramel malt, light citrus, woody hop. The flavour is moderate bitter light sweet, with a crisp, fresh, tropical citrus fruit, light dry woody hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 04 May 2019 at 18:16

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Can sample at a tasting at Ariel's place. Thanks troubles. Hazy pinkish yellow. Yeast, a bit of cherries, a bit of spiciness, floral notes, rather dry, bitterish note.
Tried from Can on 01 May 2019 at 19:51

8/10
Pink love. A no-holds-barred kind of beer: hoppy as, juicy as, hazy as. Bitter but in a grapefruit way. Thick residue best left at bottom.
Tried from Can on 21 Apr 2019 at 22:25

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Bottle from Tai Kwun event at home. Very light slightly hazy straw yellow pour with minimal white head. Aroma is sweet light slightly peppery malt in a recognizably Pilsner way. Taste follows. Light with crisp mild earthy bitterness, biscuit malt. Champagne influence less detectable. Smooth low carbonated palate. Nice pils, nothing too special.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Apr 2019 at 14:35

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Tap @ Beer Boy, Nakameguro. Pours hazy orange, some white foam on the top, hazy, hazy, hazy. Fruity tropics, bubble gum and some lupulin spark in the nose. Taste is fruity but dry, good grassy overall feel, light bitterness, guava, grass. I do like this one, lupulin dust is not very strong but bitterness is quite right and lingers a bit into the finish. Tasty and satisfies, abv is nowhere to be felt.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2019 at 02:34

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Golden with a white head. Earthy and herbal. Light hop. Not a lot going on. Ok.
Tried on 13 Mar 2019 at 12:08

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Keg at Mikkeller Ari, Bangkok. Clear pale golden, small head. Mild citrusy nose with some coriander and notes of cabbage. Mid sweet with light-medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Very fruity, mild coriander and lemon peels. Low bitterness.
Tried on 07 Feb 2019 at 15:22

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Keg at Mikkeller Ari, Bangkok. Black, small head. Aroma of vanilla and coffee. Sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Vanilla, chocolate, caramel and coffee. Low bitterness. A bit sterile.
Tried on 07 Feb 2019 at 15:04