If you want to vote for the best craft brew in Hangzhou, I'm afraid it's hard to adjust, but if you ask which one is the largest, it must be Aishan. It has opened 5 branches in Hangzhou, among which the Wanda store in Gongshu District, the Gaoyin Street store and the Shuguang Road store are the most popular.
Aishang is a typical bottle shop, each branch offers only three kinds of draft beer, and there are many types of bottle beers, including the Gaoyin Street store and the Jiaogong Road store, which contain nearly 1,000 kinds of beers from 30 countries. Owner Miaozi is interested in Belgian monastery beer (curious about it?). See Popular Science below), and a beer called Westvleteren is considered by him to be a treasure of the town. This beer is the most atmospheric among the abbey beers, as it is only sold in the monastery where the brew is made, and it is only sold to individuals other than distributors, who need to make an online reservation and purchase it at the brewery themselves, with a limit of one case per person. Unlike other bottled beers, this wine has no packaging and only a simple Westvleteren inscription on the cap.
It is with the continuous development of craft beer that Westvleteren has become increasingly famous and sought after by many craft beer lovers.
If you're not willing to pay a fortune for a bottle of Westvleteren, then the Roosevelt 10 is a good choice. This is a four-ingredient Abbey beer with a cloudy body, a dark brown color, active foam, and a long-lasting hanging glass. It smells of wheat with hints of grass. This wine has a very heavy killing taste, with high sweetness, moderate bitterness, and a slightly low bitterness on the back, but it is not lacking in smoothness. An alcohol content of 11.3 degrees is not too low, and it is easy to get slightly drunk.
The interior of the Aschamp is not spectacular, with the wine cabinet almost the only decoration in the store, and it is not an exaggeration to think of it as a beer "museum". The waiters are all very professional, and they explain the beer. The only thing to be picky about is that the smell of smoke in the store is too strong, which can make non-smoking customers feel uncomfortable.
Popular Science:
Trappist And Abbey Ale: Many people believe that monks don't drink as much as monks in the country, and in fact, they not only drink beer but also brew their own beer. In the barley-producing regions of ancient Europe, beer was the most hygienic and cost-effective drink. The monks would save some of their brewed beer for their own drinking, and some of it would be exchanged for supplies. Over time, more and more monasteries joined the winemaking ranks. Nowadays, only the beer brewed by the monks of Trappist religion is called Trappist beer, and the others are called Abbey Ale. Both Westvleteren and Roosevelt, mentioned above, belong to Trappist beers.
