Tag Archives: Singapore

Beer in Asia – volume 1

Rapidly modernizing Asia is a potential hotbed of great beer activity, but for the most part this potential is just that. There are a lot of challenges to building beer markets here – economic development, lack of beer culture, Islam and complex regulatory regimes. Yet from ex-pat entrepreneurs to companies like Paulaner, craft beer progress [...]

Asia Beerfest Singapore preview

Asia Beerfest is pretty much the only serious beer festival in South East Asia. It runs this weekend, so we’re about to find out just how serious this festival is. Singapore, just four hours give or take to the south of us, is probably Asia’s best beer city outside of Japan. There are six brewpubs [...]

World Beer Cup – Asia and BC News

This past weekend, the 2010 World Beer Cup Awards were announced. I had the pleasure of judging in this bi-annual competition two years ago and would gladly do it again. One would think that being in Kuala Lumpur, the World Beer Cup would be of fairly limited relevance to me. That is not the case [...]