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Where’s the Best Craft Beer Singapore Has Right Now?
Singapore’s craft beer scene is small, but it never sits still. Fridges turn over...
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Singapore’s craft beer scene is small, but it never sits still. Fridges turn over...
The best izakaya in Singapore all share the same three things: food built for...
Fortune Centre Food at 190 Middle Road brings together one of Singapore’s largest vegetarian...
Draft beer is beer stored in a pressurised keg or cask and poured through...
A long wooden table crowded with shared plates and glasses, with friends blurred in the warm light at...
A row of small glasses holds beers from pale gold to deep brown, ready to be sipped in...
Dark beer has a reputation. Put a pint of stout next to a pale lager and plenty of...
Ask a few friends what “craft beer” means and someone will usually say it’s the strong stuff. It’s...
Fortune Centre has spent years quietly earning its reputation as one of Singapore’s biggest clusters of vegetarian restaurants...
Sunbird Brewing Company takes its name from the Crimson Sunbird, Singapore’s national bird. If you’ve never seen one,...
Most of what we call “taste” is really smell. Your tongue handles the basics: sweet, salty, sour, bitter....
A beer glass does more than hold your drink and look good on the table. Its shape decides...
The short version fits on a beer mat. An izakaya is built around food and drink together, and...
Most people assume sushi comes with a short list of approved drinks: sake, or a cup of green...
Australian craft beer travels well, and you can tell by how often it turns up here. Over the...
Ask around at any bar and someone will tell you that an IPA is just a stronger pale...
SRM stands for Standard Reference Method. It’s a numeric scale for measuring and describing beer colour, from very...
Fortune Centre is not a building you can do in five minutes. Walk in one entrance, out the...
Good news first: there’s no exam. An izakaya isn’t a temple or a hushed fine-dining room where one...
Watch a yakitori grill for long enough and you’ll notice nobody rushes it. Skewers get turned, fat drips...
Bugis was once one of Singapore’s busiest trading and entertainment districts. Today, that same stretch of the city...
Izakaya dining suits date night because the format is built around shared small plates rather than two separate...
Fortune Centre has stood on Middle Road near Bugis since around 1980, building a reputation as a home...
An izakaya is a casual Japanese establishment that serves drinks and food together, built for lingering rather than...
Karaage’s salty, crisp exterior calls for a cold, carbonated beer that resets the palate between bites. A crisp...
Somewhere in your fridge might be a beer with a hand-drawn label, a quirky name and a story...
Beer drinkers often use “bitter” as a single word, but it describes two entirely different sensations. Hop bitterness...
RedDot BrewHouse is Singapore’s first locally owned, independent commercial microbrewery, founded by brewmaster Ernest Ng Kah Hoe after...
Taiwan’s beer industry was a government monopoly until 2002, when the country’s entry into the World Trade Organisation...
“Fruity” craft beer comes from two different places. Hop-driven pale ales and IPAs get their citrus, mango or...
Craft beer isn’t defined by flavour, hops, or how “authentic” it tastes. According to the Brewers Association, a...
Sour beer gets its character from bacteria and wild yeast that produce lactic acid, giving it a tart,...
A beer flavour wheel is a circular chart that groups flavour and aroma descriptors into broad categories such...
No, “craft” isn’t a health rating. It’s a legal and business definition about a brewery’s size and independence,...
Dry January is a voluntary, month-long break from alcohol that many people take at the start of the...
Craft beer describes how a brewery is built, not how a beer tastes. The Brewers Association defines an...
For decades, “Japanese beer” meant one of four names: Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin or Suntory. Each built a global...
Brewlander is Singapore’s first gypsy brewer, founded by John Wei after a homebrewing hobby that began in 2008...
The beer inside a keg, bottle or can starts out identical. What changes is how it’s stored and...
Tasting beer properly isn’t about memorising technical vocabulary; it’s about slowing down. Follow four simple steps: look at...
Beer doesn’t “expire” in the way milk or meat does; it won’t make you sick after its best-by...
ABV shows alcohol strength, IBU measures bitterness, and terms like dry-hopped, session, hazy, malt-forward, craft and independent describe...
IBU (International Bitterness Units) is a lab measurement of the concentration of bittering compounds that hops contribute to...
Draft beer is brewed and fermented exactly like bottled or canned beer. The difference starts at packaging: the...
ABV stands for alcohol by volume – the percentage of a beer’s total volume that’s pure alcohol. A...
This brewery’s story doesn’t begin in Singapore. It begins on the banks of the Thames, in Lambeth, London,...
Singapore’s craft beer scene is small but genuinely homegrown, built by people who started as homebrewers or spent...
