Now no more disappointment, thanks to the more and more popular craft beer becomes in town. Eventually I read a Mr Rohit operating a rather new brewery in an industrial building in Ap Lei Chau, and was really excited. I tried its IPA some time ago at Roundhouse in Soho.
Later when I learnt from my buddy that there would be a brewery tour to the Young Master Ales, I joined almost immediately.
Brewery at the southern side of the island
Ap Lei Chau seems to be far away, but actually the ride from Sheung Wan to the industrial building lasted only 35 minutes. The set-up is actually rather humble: a unit on the fourth floor of the building, maybe around 3,000 square feet, comprising various stainless steel tanks and fermenters which perform the magical process of beer brewing.
The whole process of mashing, sparging, boiling, hops-adding, cold-crashing, pitching, racking into kegs, is done inside the unit. That is quite a Hong Kong-style of operation: highly compact and efficient (of course very different from what I saw in the Fuller's).
Since the brewery not only aims at mass commercial production, but also producing some unfiltered, unpasteurized craft beer, the variety produced by this relatively small-scale set of equipment is quite great indeed. There would be some five beers for us to taste after the visit in the brewery!
Unlike some other tour members who tasted the beers professionally (scanning the colour, smelling, sniffing, etc), I just drank in a pace that pleases myself. I am happy to drink any beer in the way I like. I just appreciate drinking beers at the place where they are being brewed. It is just a wonderful experience!
Which one do I like? Which one is the best? I like them all, especially the Imperial IPA of 1842 Island.
Thank you, Mr Rohit, for doing a good work for our city of Hong Kong!
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