Hailed as Asia’s biggest craft beer festival, Beertopia was marked on my calendar for months. After spending that last 5 years in Seoul, this was the first craft beer festival I’ve attended outside South Korea. Now living in Shenzhen, an easy commute from Hong Kong, I fully expected Hong Kong’s Beertopia to raise my craft beer festival experience to a whole new level.
So, did Hong Kong’s Beertopia 2017 meet my excited expectations?
Not really.
Who is this festival for?
TL;DR: It’s for the rich.
Gweilo was the first sample I had at the festival. Good choice!
Beertopia did a lot of things right, which I’ll point out in the coming sections. However, the big off-flavor here, leaving a metaphorically skunky aftertaste in my mouth, was the price.
Hong Kong is expensive. And hosting an event downtown can’t be cheap. I know that. But the beer (not to mention food)…
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