Dry January is a voluntary, month-long break from alcohol that many people take at the start of the calendar year. It is usually framed as...

Craft beer describes how a brewery is built, not how a beer tastes. The Brewers Association defines an American craft brewer as less than 25%...

For decades, "Japanese beer" meant one of four names: Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin or Suntory. Each built a global reputation on clean, drinkable lagers, and each...

Brewlander is Singapore's first gypsy brewer, founded by John Wei after a homebrewing hobby that began in 2008 following a trip to Cornwall, UK. Wei...

The beer inside a keg, bottle or can starts out identical. What changes is how it's stored and served before it reaches your glass. Draft...

Tasting beer properly isn't about memorising technical vocabulary; it's about slowing down. Follow four simple steps: look at the beer's colour and clarity, smell it...

Beer doesn't "expire" in the way milk or meat does; it won't make you sick after its best-by date. What changes is flavour. Hop aroma...

ABV shows alcohol strength, IBU measures bitterness, and terms like dry-hopped, session, hazy, malt-forward, craft and independent describe how a beer is made or tastes....

IBU (International Bitterness Units) is a lab measurement of the concentration of bittering compounds that hops contribute to a beer. It's a straightforward chemistry number,...

Draft beer is brewed and fermented exactly like bottled or canned beer. The difference starts at packaging: the beer goes into a pressurised, refrigerated keg...