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Eaton HK is hosting a one-night-only beer party with live band karaoke

Eaton HK is hosting a one-night-only beer party with live band karaoke

Time Out31-05-2025

What can be better than free-flow drinks and belting out show-stopping bangers with everyone around you? Eaton HK's signature bar Flower Years is hosting 'Beer of the Loyalty', a one-night-only beer party complemented by live busking, live band karaoke, and instrumental accompaniment.
Since Flower Years is known for its rotating selection of craft beers from the Asia region, it only makes sense that the party drinks will be hops-based. Guests can enjoy three hours of bottomless Carlsberg and Guinness as well as unlimited helpings of bar snacks like popcorn, peanuts, and pretzels. You can even mess around with some Guinness foam art print, selecting predesigned images or uploading your own pictures to be printed onto the top of your pint – no one will be stealing your drink, for sure.
A lineup of local performers will kick off the festivities with some live busking, before the evening transitions into a live band karaoke session. Got a signature karaoke tune? Get up on stage and show us what you've got – singing with full backing music from a live band is so main character energy. Winners of the session will also walk away with a voucher for seven days of unlimited Sapporo draft beer, so start warming up those vocals.
The 'Beer of the Loyalty' party will take place from 6pm to 11pm on June 6. Early-bird tickets are available for $238 until 12 am on June 5, and the full price afterwards will be $288.

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