Yardley Brothers

Yardley Brothers was first brewed in Luke Yardley's living room on Lamma Island, and the family business, run with his brother Duncan, grew alongside Hong Kong's craft beer scene. It opened a 7-hectolitre brewery in Kwai Hing in 2016 and moved into new purpose-built premises in the Wing Hang Industrial Building, Kwai Chung, in 2023. The brewery runs twin 2,000-litre kettles with capacity of around 50,000 litres a month, and says it has Hong Kong's largest barrel-ageing facility, with more than 75 oak barrels. It describes its approach as #RealCraft: traditional methods mixed with Asian and Western fusions, unusual ingredients and mixed fermentation. Its beers have won awards at local, regional and international competitions.

The beers

• Lamma Island IPA, IPA, 6%
• Machine Men Pale Ale, pale ale, 5%
• Lager Lager Lager, lager, 4%
• Voss Boss, hazy kveik IPA, 5%
• Hong Kong Bastard, imperial IPA, 7.6%
• Thai Chilli Getaway, herb and spice sour, 6%

The essential range also includes the Sour City fruited sour, with Quit Your Job! saison and Sai Kung Session among the signature beers. Seasonals such as the Seize the Means chocolate fudge stout and a Wampi foraged sour rotate through, along with cask ales, alcohol-free beers and bottled barrel-aged sours. Core beers are canned.

Where to drink it

Yardley Brothers runs two taprooms of its own: Yardleys at 62 Peel Street in Soho, Central, with 12 taps and an English cask beer engine, and The Beer Shack at 10 Sha Po New Village on Lamma Island, six minutes' walk from Yung Shue Wan pier, with nine taps. The Kwai Chung brewery opens for tours and tastings by reservation on the first and third Friday of most months. Around town it is a regular at Kowloon Taproom in Tsim Sha Tsui, Soho Taproom in Central, Ho Lan Jeng in Lan Kwai Fong, Second Draft & Friends in Causeway Bay and Out Of The Brew on Shin Hing Street. All of these are listed below.