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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6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can from Brewcraft at home. Light gold clearish pour with frothy white head. Aroma is milder than expected based on description - tropical fruit and apple juice hops with some biscuit. Taste follows - good but definitely not the hop bomb the description suggests. Strange because the new core Gweilo beers have been great but both this and the earlier gutsy guava limited release beers sounded excellent and were quite subdued compared to the descriptions. Not bad at all but not great.
Tried from Can on 12 Aug 2018 at 14:36

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can from Brewcraft at home. Clearish golden pour with fine white head. Aroma is sharp and tart - unripe guava, passionfruit, light dankness. Nice. Taste is light - bitter frothiness first then some mild guava and fruit hop notes. Frothy palate. Sort of bitter finish. Not bad but a bit disappointing versus expectations based on recent Gweilo deliciousness and the interestingness of the concept/name.
Tried from Can on 05 Aug 2018 at 12:21

7/10
"Simply redefining." Oh, really? What, exactly?
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2018 at 23:54

7.5/10
Good one!!!1111!!!!11!!11!
Tried on 11 Jul 2018 at 17:23

8/10
Tried on 11 Jul 2018 at 17:21

7.3/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Hazy deep golden colour, good frothy white head, good retention and lacing. Aroma pale malts, lemon grass, pomelo, grassy, yeasty. Smooth flavour, medium sweet and bitter, malty, light pomelo, orange. Mild sweetbitter finish, lemon pith, earthy notes. Medium body, oily to creamy texture, soft carbonation, mild, well-balanced, good IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2018 at 22:48

7.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 0.33l, trade with GoufCustom, many thanks, Colin! Cloudy, straw colored. AROMA- a bit citrusy, mango, apricot, wheat, vanilla. FLAVOR- neutral, moderately sour, wheat, tones of citrus, mango. Light to medium bodied.
Tasty and refreshing, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2018 at 11:30

5.8/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottles from Soho Wine and Spirits, HK 10-8-16
Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2018 at 04:57

5.5/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottles from Soho Wine and Spirits, HK 10-8-16
Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2018 at 04:56

5.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle share from Jeremy. Extremely pale, kind of flat . Light bready aroma. Taste too, light and bready. Not much else going on here.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2017 at 22:40