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 317: November 13, 2015
Diary entry:
Despite a late night last night, I still had to go into the office for work today. That is the real reason I’m in Asia right now, after all.
Quite a bit going on with the project right now, with a bit of a direction change to bring our solution fully in line with everyone’s requirements. Unfortunately, this means a lot of the work that I accomplished last week may have to be redone, since the basic model has now changed.
I was able to salvage the core output though and rework it already to the new model, and with a full week of workshops now scheduled for next week, this is very helpful as it already lays the groundwork for those sessions. So all-in-all, not a bad day, after all.
After finishing a rather grueling day in the office, Erin and I met up with some old friends and contacts in Hong Kong for dinner at a new restaurant that one of them does the PR for, Tartine. Tartine is located just off the mid-level escalators on Lyndhurst Terrace, which is very near to my office, so I have a feeling I’ll be back here again for lunch when I’m visiting the office in the future. Tartine specializes in, well, tartines, which are French, open faced “sandwiches”. Tartine in Hong Kong uses their own sourdough bread, and high quality ingredients, and I have to say, these were delicious!
They’re looking to expand their menu options for dinner to offer more than just the breads, but honestly, I would go for the tartines themselves! Every one we tried was outstanding! Thanks Geoff for providing these tastes for us.
After dinner, Erin and I wandered over to a couple of bars we missed last Friday. Since we were hitting them just after happy hour ended, but before the Friday night party started, we had no trouble getting in, unlike last week. Ori-gin was a fun gin bar, with interesting cocktails and excellent infused Gin and Tonics. Erin got to try her bathtub KGB cocktail, and we even got to take home the rubber duckies!
We popped in to Tipping Point Brewery at Lan Kwai Fong, then continued on to The Globe, one of the premier craft beer bars in Hong Kong that I hadn’t visited yet. I must say, it was much larger inside than I expected, and an excellent selection! I just wish I wasn’t so tired!
After a few beers at The Globe, we returned to Kowloon and finished packing at the hotel, then popped over for some late night eats nearby our hotel before calling it a night.
The Beer:
Name: Nelson’s Galaxy
Style: American Pale Ale
Producer: Hong Kong Beer Co.
Alcohol content: 5.2%
Bottle size: 0.2 l Draft
Purchased from: The Globe in Soho, Central, Hong Kong
Nelson’s Galaxy by Hong Kong Beer Co. Comes forth with a nice kind of bitter. Citrusy. Unfortunately, a little lacking in body, but pretty good overall.
Commercial Description (from Untappd):
Launched to commemorate our 20th year anniversary and named after our first brand, the Crooked Island Cask Series offers a range of different beer styles and dry hopping treatments, all featuring the seductive mouth-feel that only cask-conditioned beers can offer.
Unlike the Rugby World Cup final, New Zealand and Australia (hops, that is) collaborate to create a hugely flavorful and aromatic pale ale. This straw colored beer with a pale malt base showcases the mango, orange, passionfruit, grapefruit, guava and white grape flavors and aroma of 2 of our favorite hops, the highly sought after Nelson Sauvin from New Zealand and Galaxy from Australia.
