Brian Spencer

Mixed fermentation beer is a funny thing. When done well, it’s an exceptionally satisfying, oftentimes complex, and understated thing; a beer that can make one think differently about what beer

Byron Bay should and should not be considered one of Australia's better craft beer destinations. On one hand, the draft selection at Byron's handful of bars is fairly limited, particularly

There's no particular reason why 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" sounds so right over beers at Tap x Tap. It's just one of those countless Tokyo things that doesn't make

“All right, all right… are you feeling it? Are you feeling it?!” Public displays of enthusiasm, genuine or not, rarely come easily, but I’ll do anything to please Tom from

"Just so you know, we do not have that one or that one." Two of Brewbot's five listed beers are unavailable. To be fair, each stop on the evening's craft

In 2017, London's Beavertown Brewery held its first Beavertown Extravaganza, calling the craft beer festival a "showcase of the finest brewing talent the world has to offer." Earlier this year,

"I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum, it put them on the map! Well, sir, there's nothin' on Earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car

Southeast Asia was familiar, so I didn't have many qualms about relocating to Singapore in July 2012. Aside from packing drudgery and other officious matters, the only real concern was

Guangzhou plays its part as one of China's three largest cities with aplomb. Here the imposing roadways in central districts like Tianhe, Yuexiu, and Huangpu, lined with one towering structure

Craft beer in Bangkok is little more than icing on a cake that's already so rich one can barely finish a single slice. Indeed, of the many reasons to visit

In Hackney Wick, near the Hertford Union Canal and Lee Navigation junction, and just a five-minute walk from the fancy-and-finally-fucking-finished Hackney Wick railway station, Howling Hops stands as one of

Singapore: Adelaide-based Pirate Life Brewing, which we've previously covered in an in-depth feature story, teamed up with award-winning Western Australia distillery Limeburners Whisky on a rich 8.6% barrel-aged stout that was

A line forms outside The Experiment well before the Hackney taproom, a collaborative effort between Pressure Drop Brewing and Verdant Brewing, opens at 5pm on a cool Friday in January.

It’s been 16 months since Rocky Ridge Brewing Co pushed its first batch of beers to market in Western Australia, and founder Hamish Coates needs to vent. So, sitting on

Hong Kong: The word "evocation," or the act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind, technically should work as a band name for musicians in

One road lead to the east, this largely deserted boulevard streaking from Sakai's lucrative trading port on Osaka Bay, and another to the west, a skip from Sakaihigashi Station, and