Brewer – Dias Zhumashev Our Brewer Dias aka. the Hulk is from Kazakhstan. When he’s not on the brew deck, he’s Carbon’s undefeated arm wrestling champion. When Dias is not arm wrestling, he is actually a very sensible person, and he is always looking out to give you a helping hand when you need it. Dias studied beverage biotechnology in university, and he worked in breweries in France, Kazakhstan, and Hong Kong after his graduation. 📚 He thinks craft beer is an excellent combination of science and art. Working at Carbon Brews, Dias keeps wondering how far we can go...
Carbon Family! 7 – Matt Bradley
Packaging Supervisor – Matt Bradley Matt, our packaging supervisor is from South Africa. He has 5 years of experience in the brewing industry and is always surrounded by beer and through his family brewery in South Africa. After graduating from the Siebel Institute Matt moved over to Hong Kong. In his words, Carbon Brews is an incredible place to work as the team is passionate about what they do, we work hard and always have time to down a beer at the end of the day. Matt enjoys tasting every beer prior to packaging and ensuring that it is always...
Carbon Family! 6 – Joel Heffernan
Lead Brewer – Joel Heffernan Time to introduce Joel, our lead brewer. Joel is from Australia and spent many years in hospitality before entering the craft beer industry. He thinks it is challenging to create unique craft beer with new ingredients and was excited to work for a company that makes beers that don’t taste like beers! Working at a brewery is physically demanding, but Joel enjoys working with his fun and creative colleagues at Carbon, and with the bonus that the product contains alcohol. Besides work, his greatest achievements are the modular synthesizers, hiking, and the time away from...
Carbon Family! 5 – Josh Cheung
Packaging Operator – Josh Cheung Josh Hong Kong’s very own homegrown brewer. He first encountered craft beer when he randomly visited a local taproom while he was still a student. It was that pint of great beer accompanied with the dazzling technical beer conversations in that taproom sparked an interest in him for craft beers. His proudest achievement in Carbon Brews is coming up with Baltic Proper V.3. 🌊after intensive research (reading and beer drinking) and experimentation, then seeing it well received by the drinkers in Hong Kong. Josh’s recent favorite pick is our upcoming new release Black to the...
Carbon Family! 4 – Chris Wong
General Manager / Beer Dumpster – Chris Wong Our Beer Dumpster Chris has been with us since day one. In his past life, he was a homebrew fanatic / alcoholic accountant in Hong Kong. 6 years ago he helped build our old Fo Tan brewery on Au Pui Wan St as Head Brewer and recruited the current Carbon Brews team. In his words, “The person who taught me how to homebrew in San Francisco once said that brewing is 50% science and 50% art, and I’ve taken that to be my brewing philosophy since then. At Carbon Brews, I’m blessed...
We are all carbon people! 5 – Ding Yung
We went to visit Ding Yung today, owner of Yan Shang Kee. The moment you step into her store, you feel the old Hong Kong vibes that you can only find in movies nowadays. After admiring the beauty of the place, we sat down with Ding to talk about how she got to know Carbon Brews. As a friend of our Operations and QC Supervisor Ryan, Ding has started to grow interest in Carbon Brews by learning Ryan’s day to day work at the brewery. Ding is especially intrigued by Carbon Brews’ label designs and beer names where she finds...
We are all carbon people! 4 – Luiz Berger
Today we have invited Luiz, the artwork designer of our Mexican Lager – El Crispy Boi! Luiz is based in São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 and our team has been impressed by his very cool comics illustration. When designing the El Crispy Boi label, he took inspiration from great Mexican artists from classics like Posada to modern underground comic artists like Abraham Diaz. Luiz used to create and publish underground comics and he also worked as an illustrator for magazines. His favourite moments are when he gets to work with the things he loves. With the rise of the craft beer...
Carbon Family! 3 – Brian Leslie
Head of Operations / Yeast Rancher – Brian Leslie Our yeast Rancher Brian is from the States where he had 10 years of wonderful experience working at Karbach Brewing in Texas and Great Divide Brewing in Colorado. He thinks it is really cool that our brewing team consists of members who’ve come from all over the globe with the same goal – to make the best beer in Hong Kong! Brian grew up in Texas and that’s where he found his favorite beer style Mexican Lager. Check out our latest release (and Brian’s favourite) Mexican Lager – El Crispy Boi!...
We are all carbon people! 3 – Dennis Ho
This time we have Dennis, the guitarist of Hong Kong indie band Seasons of Change! Our friend Kuloming introduced Dennis to the world of craft beer a few years ago. Since then, they’ve been frequenting TAP – The Ale Project to try different kinds of beers together. He was impressed by the richer hops and malts flavor, complex aroma that he experienced in craft beer. The different types of beers bring him a lot of emotional changes, especially when he wants to find some music inspiration. The explosive fruitiness of a Double Hazy IPA – Crazy Rich Lupulins can represent...
Carbon Family! 2 – Richie
Packaging Technician / Keg Master – Richie Mark Villacorte Richie is from the Philippines and he just joined our team this year! He had no experience in brewing beer before joining us but he’s learning something new about craft beer every day! He is one of the most motivated guy you’ll meet in the HK craft beer industry! Our keg master likes watching and playing basketball and Crazy Rich Lupulins is his favourite beer! Fun facts about Richie: I’m dreaming of being sober for my whole life. Cheers! Carbon brews 係一間員工自主啤酒廠，細至命名、大至產品研發大家都可以有話事權。咁就當然唔少得要介紹下我地嘅隊員，等大家認識我哋多啲！ 今日要介紹嘅成員就係 Richie Mark Villacorte，係我地嘅Packaging Technician / Keg Master！Richie係菲律賓人，今年新加入Carbon Brews嘅團隊。之前無釀酒經驗嘅佢話每日都可以學到新嘢同進步係佢嘅酒廠做嘢的推動力。...
We are all carbon people! 2 – Timmy Lam
This time we have Timmy, Head Barista of Omotesando Koffee! We met Timmy, when he came to our brewery to talk about the specialty coffee in the Group 14 session where launched our Experimental Series Vol.3. We learned that coffee and beer have a lot in common. From fermentation to roasting and the different techniques to manipulate aroma and flavour profiles. Timmy’s favourite Carbon Brews beer is Sour Punch! The beer’s dry and thirst-quenching finish makes it a perfect to drink in places with hot weather, like Tap Mun where he grew up in! What’s your favourite beer from Carbon...
Carbon Family! 1 – Conor
Brand Head Brewer – Conor Hogan We’re blessed to have Conor come all the way to Hong Kong from Ireland (with his pair of hot flare jeans) to join Carbon Brews. Conor thinks working in the craft beer industry is one of the few jobs in life where you get paid to do something you would normally do in your spare time. His favourite aspect of working in Carbon Brews is having a fridge that is always full of good beers that people want to drink. When not brewing, he can be found on the mountains trail running. His secret...