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South China Morning Post
7 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Buzziest new openings in Hong Kong, from Japanese-Korean fusion to craft beer
The Bridge Cathay Pacific's revamped lounge The Bridge, located at Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: Cathay Pacific Following an extensive renovation, the Cathay Pacific business lounge is welcoming customers back to Terminal 1 with its all new 'human-centric' design. Advertisement The lounge, which closed in 2021, now features elegant cherry wood, sleek black granite and travertine accents that create a less clinical, more residential ambience. Before hopping on their flight, travellers can unwind while enjoying wonton noodles at the Noodle Bar or savour regional Chinese small plates at The Nook. Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok Goose Island Taproom Chicago brewery Goose Island has launched its first taproom in Hong Kong. Photo: Goose Island Taproom Chicago brewery Goose Island has launched a new taproom in Hong Kong's Lyndhurst Terrace, featuring more than a dozen of its craft innovations. The tap line-up includes the Goose IPA, a six-time champion at the Great American Beer Festival, and Thirsty Goose, which won gold at the 2024 World Beer Awards in the Lager/Hoppy Pilsner category. With rotating tap line-ups each month, beer enthusiasts can expect a fresh experience with every visit. Shop 1, G/F, 8 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central Yorucho Interior shot of Yorucho. Photo: Yorucho
South China Morning Post
30-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- South China Morning Post
15 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in June 2025 for pasta, ramen, tacos and more
With so many of us planning, or about to take, a trip out of Hong Kong before the summer sun really turns up the heat, June is a great time to catch up with friends and family before everybody scatters. Looking for somewhere special for a decadent meal, a happy hour catch-up or a coffee and snack? These newly opened bars and restaurants may take your fancy. 1. Yorucho and Madara A modern izakaya has opened in Causeway Bay's Tang Lung Street, founded by two chefs who have worked in kitchens with modern flair – think Liberty Exchange, Silencio and Fukuro. Crispy nori tacos at Yorucho. Photo: Yorucho Expect dishes such as crispy nori tacos topped with red prawn head oil and prawn salt, and pickled plum-marinated tomatoes with yuzu ricotta. Attached to Yorucho's dining room is a secret bar, Madara, slated to open by late June. At the helm of the bar is Rayven Leung, previously of Takumi Mixology Salon , who is known for crafting Japanese-style cocktails with floral and fruity notes. 16/F, Circle Tower, 28 Tang Lung Street, Causeway Bay Goose Island Taproom has opened in Central. Photo: Goose Island Taproom 2. Goose Island Taproom Chicago brewery Goose Island Taproom has opened a branch in Central. Among its line-up of beers is its signature and award-winning Goose IPA, as well as the Thirsty Goose, which took home the 2024 World Beer Awards China Gold in the Lager/Hoppy Pilsner category.
Time Out
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Hong Kong's first Goose Island Taproom opens in Central
Chicago's legendary craft brewery Goose Island has landed in Hong Kong with its first Asian taproom. The craft beer pioneer, known for its award-winning IPAs, has set up shop on Lyndhurst Terrace in Central – and it's ready to pour some seriously good brews. Bringing over a dozen of its best craft beers to Hong Kong, the taproom showcases Goose Island's most celebrated creations alongside monthly rotating specials. Beer enthusiasts can savour the six-time Great American Beer Festival champion Goose IPA, or the newly crowned 2024 World Beer Awards China Gold winner Thirsty Goose lager. Not sure what to try? Go for their Brewmaster's Choice Flight, offering 12 150ml pours of different house beers for $298. Imbibers will also be able to enjoy some hearty American pub grub to go with their drinks. Think beer-battered fish and chips made with Goose 312 wheat ale, stacked burgers, and loaded nachos with a signature Goose IPA cheese sauce. Fun fact: The brewery got its name from a little manmade island on the Chicago River, where legend has it that flocks of geese used to stop there during their migration flights. @gooseislandhk on Instagram.
Forbes
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Mother's Day Gift Guide: Hoppiest IPAs
Give your mom a big hug, a Big Mango Beer Hug, this Mother's Day. Sometimes, mama just wants a beer. A lot of moms I know love beer, especially IPAs, so here's a selection of some of the hoppiest brews to make your mama happy this Mother's Day. Goose Island Beer Co. Big Mango Beer Hug, $12.99/6-pack of 12 oz. cans If your mom loves both hops and fruit, then look no further than Big Mango Beer Hug. This luscious IPA is bursting with mango aromas with just the right amount of fruity sweetness to balance the 9.9.% ABV. Goose Island also has a few other hugs for your mom - Big Juicy Beer Hug and Tropical Beer Hug, and if you can't decide, get your mom a variety pack. If your mom likes IPAs and the Packers, then grab her a pac of Grassy Place Hazy IPAs. Badger State Brewing Grassy Place Hazy IPA, $11.99/4-pack Grassy Place Hazy IPA has a juicy, tropical and smooth hop flavor and big aroma, led by "Badger Bits" citra hops. Its intentionally hazy appearance is created by adding massive amounts of hops in the fermenter. The result is a smooth and approachable brew, with a 6.7 %ABV. Take your mom camping, and bring along a 6-pack of Camp Coldie. 10 Barrel Brewing Camp Coldie, $11.99/6-pack, 12-oz. A collaboration beer between two of the Pacific Northwest's most innovative outdoor brands, 10 Barrel Brewing and SCOUT Campers, Camp Coldie is a low-ABV, high-adventure West Coast IPA, perfect for moms who love the outdoors. Medium-bodied, subtly sweet and balanced with gentle bitterness, Camp Coldie packs all the flavor of a classic West Coast IPA into a gentler punch. If your mom loves citrus notes, then she will love Elvis Juice. BrewDog USA Elvis Juice, $10.99/6-pack BrewDog USA recently unveiled a fresh new look to its iconic Elvis Juice Citrus IPA. This 6.5 percent ABV now features a zesty orange packaging. This citrus-loaded beer with a crisp finish is perfect to celebrate with mom outside. The Cosmic Crusher IPA is one of three in the Mind Haze series. Firestone Walker Mind Haze Cosmic Crusher,$12.99/6-pack The universe of Mind Haze IPAs is one your mother might think worth exploring. The Cosmic Crusher offers the biggest burst of flavor, with a 9.5 percent ABV, along with pineapple and mango flavors. There's also original Mind Haze and Mind Haze Brain Melter, too. Chaos Pattern is the most popular beer brewed at this Wisconsin brewery. 3 Sheeps Brewing Chaos Pattern, $10.50/6-pack of 12 oz. cans This IPA is the top selling beer at this Wisconsin brewery. An artfully crafted blend of Citra, Eukanot, Cascade, and Centennial hops with a 6.5 percent ABV offers a mix of familiar and unexpected citrus notes. Each sip unveils layers of juicy orange, zesty grapefruit, and a touch of floral lime. Phaze Dust is an imperial hazy IPA that's citrus forward and bursting with flavor. Elysian Brewing Phaze Dust IPA, $12.99/6-pack, 12-ounce cans Phaze Dust Hazy IPA is the newest member of the Space Dust series of beers. This citrus-forward, 8.2% ABV imperial hazy IPA is crafted with a blend of Chinook, Amarillo, Citra Incognito, and Citra Cryo hops, alongside the rare and innovative, citrus-forward, Oregon-grown Luminosa hops. It carries the familiar citrus notes found throughout the Space Dust series, complemented by a soft bitterness and pillowy mouthfeel with sweet hints of candied peach, mango, and tangerine. Double Dale's is an imperial IPA that is quite well balanced and delicious. Oskar Blues Brewery Dale's Double IPA, $3.49/can First released in 2022, Dale's Double IPA is a well-balanced Imperial IPA. The first sip is crisp with biscuit and a very light honeysuckle character that imparts a unique complexity on a simple backdrop. It's a great beer to sip on a hot Mother's Day. Is your mom the sunshine of your life? Gift her with a Sip of Sunshine. Lawson's Finest Liquids Sip of Sunshine IPA, $16.99/4-pack, 16-oz. cans This 8% ABV IPA is a lupulin-laden IPA packed with juicy tropical fruit character, bright floral aromas and delectable layers of hop flavor. This iconic flagship IPA is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year, making it perfect for Mother's Day. Is your mom a fan of fantasy novels with wizards? Pair this juicy IPA with a good book for a perfect ... More Mother's Day gift. TailGate Brewery Juicebox Wizard IPA, $11.99/6-pack 12-oz. cans Description: Juicebox Wizard IPA is the latest release in TailGate Brewery's Wizard's Order IPA series. With a 6% ABV, Juicebox Wizard is a juicy, hazy IPA with balanced bitterness leading to bright flavors of pink grapefruit, stone fruit and hints of guava and raspberry. Fans of the Wizards' Order IPA series will enjoy this fresh and approachable take on the style. Flavorwave is an IPA that's packed with flavor. Indeed Brewing Company Flavorwave IPA, $10.99/6-pack, 12 oz. cans Flavorwave IPA is a hazy-ish IPA swelling with tropical hop aromas and fruity flavors. With a 6.2% ABV, sipping on this is like ripping through a juicy barrel of five shining hop varieties, coming out the other end, and coasting into shore. Broken Hops makes two IPAs, West Coast and Hazy. Broken Hops Brewing Co. West Coast IPA, $13.99/4-pack, 16 oz. cans Broken Hop's flagship West Coast IPA is clean and elegant with the mouthfeel of a lager, but the hop character of a west coast IPA, with 7% ABV. Smooth and easy drinking, but packed with hop flavor and bitterness, this IPA has an herbal, grapefruit nose and firm bitterness
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
I've Tried Hundreds of Craft IPAs. This Cheap, Easy-to-Find Beer Is My Go-to in a Pinch
I write about beer for a living, which means I taste a lot of the stuff. Most of it is great, especially IPAs. I can rattle off a list of bangers made with everything from foraged spruce tips to experimental hops that don't even have names yet, whether made by iconic industry trailblazers or under-the-radar nano-producers. But for all the obscure IPAs we insufferable beer geeks hunt down and boast about—bonus points if you can pinpoint all five hops in the aroma or remember the entire three-sentence name of that Evil Twin hazy—there's something undeniably irresistible about what you might refer to as a 'supermarket IPA.' Supermarket IPAs are those well-known bottles and cans from big independent craft breweries or their corporate-owned counterparts that have resources to earn shelf space in national chains. For example, one of the founders of Tree House Brewing in Massachusetts includes options from Lagunitas, Stone, and Goose Island in his supermarket IPA taste test video. In short, a supermarket IPA is there when you need it, wherever you are. You know what you're getting is consistently good in flavor and mouthfeel, and they're great for introducing craft beer to new drinkers. As a beer fan since 2008 and beer writer since 2017, I've had countless IPAs. When I'm in a situation where I need something tasty, cheap, and available—a crowd-pleaser for a party, decent brew at the limited airport bar, or convenience store pickup in a craft beer desert—I reach for a Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing every time. Sierra Nevada launched Hazy Little Thing in 2018. It was a big move for a seminal brewery that had built their reputation on a different interpretation of hoppy. 'Hazy Little Thing broke the mold at Sierra Nevada and marked a mindset shift for us,' says Isaiah Mangold, Sierra Nevada's head innovation brewer. 'The explorative process we went through as we developed that beer unlocked so many ideas and possibilities that we had never considered before, because at that time we only knew what we had always known: that IPAs by nature were meant to be sharp, bitter, and clear.' Smooth, sweet, and juicy, Hazy Little Thing was born to be its own offshoot brand, similar to the Voodoo Ranger series from fellow OG New Belgium Brewing. These brands were made for supermarket-IPA status. With their big, fruity flavors and splashy can art, they appeal to anyone wandering the aisle—whether they have an Untappd account or not. 'The Hazy Little Thing flagship has become ubiquitous,' says beer judge and writer Alexander Gates. 'There are lots of other sub-brands competing in this space, namely hazy IPAs at a lower price point…while Hazy Little Thing isn't as full-flavored as [Sierra Nevada's] Celebration or Torpedo, [it's] more approachable to people that may not like an aggressively bitter beer.' Hopped with citra, magnum, simcoe, comet, mosaic, and el dorado, Hazy Little Thing delivers a pleasant blend of orange gummy candies and overripe tropical fruit with some nice bitter pine and tea notes for balance. It does so with a full, velvety mouthfeel that's not too heavy or filling. It's a perfect middle-of-the-road option—not too explosively hoppy or smoothie-like for hazy IPA newbies, but flavor-forward and substantial enough to satisfy a hazy IPA fan. At 6.7 percent ABV in a standard-sized 12-ounce can, its buzz isn't overpowering, either. The proof is in the numbers for Hazy Little Thing's appeal. Per Nielsen data for 2024, it's the third ranked craft beer brand in the United States and the top-selling hazy IPA. Its success has blossomed into an entire portfolio featuring imperial, session, West Coast, and additional IPA 'Little Things,' nicknamed Big, Hoppy, Tropical, Rad, Dank, Cosmic, and Juicy. There's even a Wild Little Thing sour. The names, Gates notes, are another approachable feature. 'They're accurately described by their names, so they're also less pretentious and clear…whether [the consumer] has had a dank or juicy IPA before or not,' he says. The sub-brand has something for every kind of IPA fan at every level, no doubt. But the one that started it all, Hazy Little Thing, remains unrivaled in its crowd-pleasing quality.
