Gweilo Beer
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Gweilo Beer (Chinese: 鬼佬啤酒) is a craft brewery founded in July 2014 in Hong Kong. It released its first beer in June 2015.[1]
History
[edit]Gweilo Beer was established by Ian and Emily Jebbitt and Joseph Gould in July 2015.[2] The three founders are from Britain.[3][4] Gweilo or gwailou is a common Cantonese slur term for Westerners. In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and literally translates to "ghost chap".[3] Gweilo Beer became Hong Kong's largest craft-beer brewery in 2018 after opening a factory in Fo Tan.[5] The venue used a canning device from Italy that cost US$1.2 million and had an hourly manufacturing capacity of 6,000 cans.[5]
Products
[edit]Gweilo Beer produces a pale ale and an IPA. Gweilo Beer's recipes were created for the Hong Kong market, and both beers are English-style session beers with 4.5% and 4.8% ABV, respectively. The Gweilo IPA won Best British Style at the 2015 Hong Kong International Beer Awards.[6] They also produce Betsy for Cathay Pacific, which is exclusively served aboard long-haul flights and in the Cathay lounges at Hong Kong International Airport.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "The Best Beer Bars and Bottle Shops in Hong Kong". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ↑ Dalley, Helen (2017-03-31). "Craft beer: Something's brewing". Business Traveller. pp. 62–65. ISSN 0255-7312. EBSCOhost 121964887. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - 1 2 Tong, King Lee (2023). Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-28113-3. ISSN 2633-5050. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
- ↑ "樂 活/「鬼佬啤酒啊唔該」\潘 少" [Living Joyfully / 'A Beer for the Foreigners, Please' \ Pan Shao]. Ta Kung Pao (in Chinese). 2022-10-17. Archived from the original on 2025-02-24. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
- 1 2 Haydon, Guy (2018-02-14). "Hong Kong's biggest craft brewery Gweilo Beer to start production at the end of this month". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Hop to It". Hong Kong Means Business. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ↑ Chen, Jackie (October 28, 2019). "Cathay Pacific brings back Betsy Beer for long-haul passengers". Business Traveller. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
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