This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 310: November 6, 2015
Diary entry:
Today I spent the morning planning the coming nine months of the project with my colleagues from Korea. How to properly involve our colleagues in the other countries in Asia, what we need from them, how to keep them informed, etc.
In the afternoon, we finished off my deliverable for the week’s visit, so I feel like we accomplished what I came here to do. Next week the decisions will be made on how to move forward. But first a few days vacation in Japan, since my involvement won’t come again until the end of the week.
Dinner tonight was with another old TravBuddy friend who we knew from the US, but currently is living in Hong Kong. We ate at Aberdeen Street Social, which is a very nice restaurant in town. A tough reservation to get, so we had to accept the invite 🙂
We hoped to visit some bars afterwards for Gin & Tonics, but the entire city was hopping tonight, especially around Soho and Lan Kwai Fong. We wound up down at Ham and Sherry, an old favorite, instead. Which ironically is part of the same restaurant group as Aberdeen Street Social.
The Beer:
Name: KeTo Reporter
Style: Porter
Producer: Birra del Borgo
Alcohol content: 5.2%
Bottle size: 0.33 l
Purchased from: Ham and Sherry in Wan Chai, Central, Hong Kong
KeTo Reporter from Birra del Borgo. An Italian Porter, in Hong Kong. A bit sweet. Not at all what I expect from a porter. Not much dark flavor that I can recognize. But it’s still pretty good, but more like a brown ale than a porter.
Commercial Description (Untappd):
Pitch black, nice carbonation, weak head. Smell is caramel, malt, red wine, touch of orange peel.
