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:
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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Bottleshare @ Yggdrasil Brewing pre-open. Light yellow pour with a slight haze. Super citric yuzu and fresh nose. Aggressive citric bitterness in taste plus some strong yuzu there. Dry and bitter finish. Bit unbalanced bit interestingly bold use of this pungent fruit.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2018 at 13:41

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Tap at MBCT. Slightly opaque light gold with a thick fluffy white head. Medium bodied and smooth but slightly dank pale ale. Good stuff. 3.7
Tried from Draft on 04 Oct 2018 at 10:41

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Tap at MCBT. Gweilo – Mythoclast Ekuanot Pils With a golden color and a thick head, nice hoppy almost nutty aroma. Medium bodied and dry with a grassy flavor. Good bitter stuff. 3.6
Tried from Draft on 04 Oct 2018 at 08:44

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Tap @ MBCT Red Session. Nice hazy orange pour, some foam on top. Nose has some grainy base, fruity hops. Tastes quite fruity, bitter and smooth, relatively simple but not badly made.
Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2018 at 10:49

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can from Brewcraft at home. Slightly hazy straw yellow pour with thin fuzzy head. Aroma is citric zesty pilsner, but not as interesting as expected. Taste has some yuzu but very faint, mostly a hoppy pilsner bite and some slight citrus juiciness. Not bad but disappointing versus the description and recent Gweilo beers.
Tried from Can on 27 Sep 2018 at 14:54

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Over attenuated, very dry grassy nose. Modest bitterness. Very grassy with some muscat notes. Not bad
Tried on 24 Sep 2018 at 07:50

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Very pale golden color. Light crisp mouth with a fair amount of fruitiness. Easy drinking and low medium bitterness. Not really a true pilsner but it would work in the HK heat
Tried on 24 Sep 2018 at 07:20

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Tap @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration Tokyo, Yellow Session. Orange pour, lightly cloudy, white foam. Nose is hoppy, sharp somewhat, refreshing. Tastes malty with some hop addition and light tropical fruits. Pretty simple, piney and well, not as great balanced. Still would be smashable in hot climate.
Tried from Draft on 23 Sep 2018 at 10:55

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Can at BeerFest Asia, X Edition. Poured a clear golden colour with a short-lived frothy white head. The aroma is malt, floral woody hop. The flavour is moderate to light bitter with a light, watery, light citrus, dry floral hop bitter palate and a long floral bitter finish. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.
Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2018 at 10:10

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Bottle at BeerFest Asia, X Edition. Poured a hazy golden colour with a frothy white head. The aroma is banana yeast. The flavour is yeasty bitter with a crisp, light dry yeast, acidic, light clove spice, floral hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average to lively carbonation and a bubbly mouthfeel. Really struggled to drink this. It was way too light, over-carbonated and the floral hoppy finish was not to my liking.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Sep 2018 at 09:59