Street level fermentation stills

Jeju Brewery in Jeju Si

Ok, here’s where I really post about Jeju’s very own beer, brewed on premise at Jeju Brewery. The tell tale sign of this microbrewery is the window looking into the fermentation tanks right at street level. There are more such tanks upstairs in the pub cum brewery itself.

2nd floor peek into the brewing process

There’s a wide selection of home brews to choose from and in our 30 mins before having to catch our flight, tried most of it in 330ml potions. That’s a full full belly, considering we just had a bbq pork lunch with the works. The selection of beers was good – ranging from the light pilsners to the dark stouts. And the in-between wheat, ales and double bocks. There’s even a special Boris brew, named after the head brewmaster Boris de Mesones. The CEO and berwmaster, Bong-Soo Jun was passionate enough to explain his operations and clarify the sutleties of his brews.

CEO & brewmaster Bong-Soo, Jun passionately articulating Jeju brews' unique selling points

The taste test – nice clean finish for all the brews but as we suspected for these Korean products, it is not full-bodied. We were beginning to think that the local taste for beer nationally seems to be a uniform light taste. The stout had a nice strong roasted taste which suited me fine.

All in all, a good visit. You always  know when the beer will be good when the brewmaster shares his craft with enthusiasm and passion readily.  On hind sight, the many trips up and down the plane aisle to unleash the body processed Jeju beer was worth it, albeit in the 45mins it took to get back to Seoul from Jeju Island.

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