Gweilo Beer is a
craft brewery
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founded in July 2014 in
Hong Kong
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. It released its first
beer
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in June 2015.
Meaning: 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 people".
Gweilo Beer produces a
pale ale
Pale ale is a golden to amber coloured beer style brewed with pale malt. The term first appeared around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with high-carbon coke, which resulted in a lighter colour than other beers popular at that time. Dif ...
and an
IPA
IPA commonly refers to:
* India pale ale, a style of beer
* International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
* Isopropyl alcohol, a chemical compound
IPA may also refer to:
Organizations International
* Insolvency Practitioner ...
. Gweilo Beer's recipes were created for the Hong Kong market, and both beers are
English-style session beers coming in at 4.5% and 4.8%
ABV, respectively. The Gweilo IPA won Best British Style (there are no gold medals) at the 2015 Hong Kong International Beer Awards.
In September 2015, Gweilo Beer started to export to
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
and
China, and is expected to export to other foreign markets.
See also
*
Beer in Hong Kong
The history of beer in Hong Kong dates back to the mid-19th century. Currently the best selling beer is San Miguel, brewed by San Miguel Brewery Hong Kong. San Miguel had been brewed in Sham Tseng since 1948 and later moved to Yuen Long unti ...
* ''
Gweilo
''Gweilo'' or (, pronounced ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Western world, Westerners. In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use. Cantonese speakers frequently u ...
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References
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Beer in Hong Kong