These Beers are also available at the Following Bottle Outlets:

South City Liquor, Union Club Hotel Bottle Shop, Wagga Cellars Kooringal, Red Cow Hotel Junee,

Ice Beer

The process of making ice beer involves bringing the temperature of a batch of beer down to or below the freezing point of water (32°F or 0°C). Because water freezes at a higher temperature than does alcohol, the frozen portion of the mixture contains a higher concentration of water, and the liquid remaining therefore has a higher concentration of alcohol. Because of this, a layer of ice can be skimmed from the surface of beer (hence the name "ice" beer).The process is known as "fractional freezing". This Process Produces the Dry Crisp tasting beer, with a malty mid flavour. The beer itself is light, very light, but the flavour, if the beer isn’t too chilled has a robust dryness. Closer to a Becks than a Heineken, and the absence of rice in the mix really shows through.

Wheat Beer

Two common varieties of wheat beer are witbier ("white beer") based on the Belgian tradition of using flavourings such as coriander and orange peel, and weissbier (German - "white beer") based on the German tradition of mixing at least 50% wheat to barley malt to make a light coloured ale. Both the Belgian witbier and the German weissbier were termed "white beers" because historically they were paler than other beers at the time. Harbin wheat beer pours clear and honey coloured in the glass. It has a medium white head and a very nice nose full of spicy hops and malt. The flavour tends toward sweetness but there is enough hops in it to keep that under control. It finishes with a really nice lager snap.

Wheat beers are commonly marketed as spring or summer seasonal products.

Fresh Beer

Scientists in Venezuela are reporting an advance in the centuries-old effort to preserve the fresh taste that beer drinkers value more than any other characteristic of that popular beverage. Fresh Beer identifies key substances involved in giving beer an aged or "oxidized" flavour, Giving us a full bodied, well rounded brew. Using double row malt, it gives the beer a fruity middle with a crisp finish.

Traditional Beer

Brewed with the highest quality Chinese and European hops, old-world-style-yeast and the finest malts, Harbin Lager delivers a truly refreshing taste with a distinctive, clean finish notable enough to earn the China Top Brand Award for 2002 and again in 2005. Harbin Traditional Beer is a heavier beer with a smooth middle and an easy finish. Harbin is part of Anheuser-Busch's ever growing international portfolio. It has an elaborate packaging and impressive presentation. Not many Chinese brewed beers have the character and complexity to hold most beer drinkers attention but this one certainly does.

Harbin " Hapi" Beer

"Fresh" Beer is a very smooth Light Easy drinking beer, Using two row malt to give a malty body, complex flavour and crisp finish..

Harbin is China's fourth largest brewery. Harbin is one of the oldest brewers in China, has a leading position in Northeast China and produces the Hapi beer brand.

Created in 1900, Harbin Beer is a medium-bodied premium lager brewed with Chinese and European hops, old-world style yeast and select grains. In 2005 Harbin earned the distinctive "China Top Brand" designation awarded by a committee of Chinese government officials, industrial associations, media and business professionals.

Harbin Lager is brewed with Chinese "Qindao Dahua" aroma hop varieties from China’s remote Northwestern regions, which create its complex floral and fruity hop aroma. It also is brewed with a blend of European aroma hop varieties and fine two-row malt for a balanced and round malty body, complex flavor and crisp finish. Harbin Lager’s unique yeast strain and traditional long and cold ageing process further enhances the beer’s nuanced aroma and crisp finish.

History

The history of Harbin dates back to 1900, when Ulubulevskij, a Russian national, founded a brewery in Northeast China (called Manchuria then), which he named after himself - 'Ulubulevskij Brewery.' The initial objective of the Brewery, considered the first in China, was to supply Russians working on the Trans-Manchurian Railway Project5 started in 1898. In 1908, the company was renamed Gulunia. In 1932, the brewery was renamed 'Harbin Brewery Factory', when it went into joint control of Chinese and Czech nationals. Later, with the Soviet Red army capturing Manchuria in 1946, the company was controlled by Soviet nationals, who called it Quilin Stock Company Limited. This situation prevailed until 1950 when Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, and ownership was returned to the Chinese government. The Chinese renamed it Harbin Brewery and operated it as a state-owned entity. Driven by the famine the company became the first to brew beer with corn instead of rice, in China in 1959. Through the 1960s, the company focused on investing to improve its technology, and in 1973 it installed its first sterilization machine in Heilongjiang Province. In June 2003, SABMiller acquired a 29.6% equity stake in Harbin. In 2004 it was taken over by Anheuser-Busch after a bitter takeover battle with SABMiller.