Global Dispatches – Beer Travelist http://beertravelist.com Drink Well. Travel Far. Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:14:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 http://beertravelist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-BT-logo-512-70x70.png Global Dispatches – Beer Travelist http://beertravelist.com 32 32 Six Pack #5 http://beertravelist.com/six-pack-craft-beer-news-travel-5/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 04:52:05 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3464 Thrillist: Anyone working in the Asia Pacific beer biz knows that the average craft-curious drinker very likely can not describe with confidence the difference between, say, a West Coast IPA and Double IPA—and that’s nothing for such drinkers to feel bad about. I like this breezy explainer of four popular IPA styles not only because […]

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]]> If South Korean Craft Beer Arrives in Singapore and No One Drinks It, Does It Still Deserve Hype? (Yes, It Does.) http://beertravelist.com/south-korean-craft-beer-in-singapore/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:23:01 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3399 Hype is a funny, fickle thing in craft beer. Marketing instigates some of it, sure, but marketing only goes so far as you move towards the pointy end of craft, where the more hardcore beer enthusiasts dwell and sip and snark. The rating blessings of Untappd and fawning buzz on other social platforms drive as […]

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]]> Six Pack #4 http://beertravelist.com/six-pack-craft-beer-news-travel-4/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:46:30 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3249 Stone & Wood Blog – If you’ve read our feature story on the pride of Byron Shire brewing you know we’re big fans. Stone & Wood’s annual Northern Rivers Large Grants Program, which the brewery’s non-profit Ingrained Foundation manages, is a great example of how Stone & Wood consistently gives back to and supports its […]

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]]> Six Pack #3 http://beertravelist.com/six-pack-craft-beer-news-travel-3/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 02:14:33 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3238 Good Beer Hunting – Stephanie Grant details her taproom-hopping experience in Asheville, NC, one of the top beer cities in the US, but this is one story with nary a mention of what she finds in the glasses. Instead, Grant puts us in her shoes as a Black woman navigating all but one venue in which […]

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]]> Six Pack #2 http://beertravelist.com/six-pack-craft-beer-news-travel-2/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 07:01:05 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3228 We dedicate our second edition of “Six Pack” to #BlackLivesMatter and stand in solidarity with the Black community and people of color. End police brutality, inequality, prejudice, and systemic racism. Beer Kulture – “I don’t want to be the only black person in the taproom anymore.” Published 10 months ago, this piece on inclusion and diversity […]

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]]> Bound for Asia, More Fresh American IPAs Board the Air-Freight Express (or Grimm Artisanal Ales Smashes Singapore) http://beertravelist.com/grimm-artisanal-ales-to-singapore/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 03:01:31 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3079 In Singapore, a recent check of IPA availability in cans and bottles from American craft breweries shows no shortage of world-class takes on the hallowed beer style. To cite just a few examples, we have Cigar City Brewing’s venerable Jai Alai (95 BeerAdvocate score), Deschutes Brewery’s Fresh Squeezed IPA (95), Alpine Beer Company’s Nelson (99), […]

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]]> Six Pack #1 http://beertravelist.com/six-pack-craft-beer-travel-stories-news-1/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:12:53 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2839 Welcome to the first drop of “Six Pack,” our new escapism series spotlighting six beer- and travel-related stories (and sometimes other things) from around this lovely planet of ours. This comes on the heels of the other new series we debuted this week, “Last Pour,” which kicked off with Yggdrasil Brewing. We may play around […]

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]]> Asia Beer City Series: Where to Find Good Beer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia http://beertravelist.com/kuala-lumpur-craft-beer-bars-bottleshops/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 02:50:13 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2775 For a few reasons, Kuala Lumpur would likely be one of the last places a beer enthusiast would think to prioritize on her or his list of barhopping destinations. First, there are just two (and a half) commercial breweries in Malaysia, and getting a license to brew is close to pushing a cow into a […]

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]]> Finding Craft Beer on Taiwan’s Windswept Eastern Coast http://beertravelist.com/taiwan-craft-beer-dulan-highway-11/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:40:43 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2696 Brian Curran and Rita Kao say their brewpub, Highway 11, occupies the old loading dock of an abandoned sugar factory at the center of a cool little surf town on Taiwan’s eastern coast called Dulan. They say the town looks down on black sand beaches and is backed by craggy green mountains, and that it […]

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]]> Seven Questions with Taipei Craft Beer Pioneer Shawn Dean James Kidd http://beertravelist.com/taipei-craft-beer-craftconasia/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:10:15 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2677 Shawn Dean James Kidd hasn’t just watched Taiwan slowly, steadily, increasingly embrace craft beer over the past two decades—he has helped make it happen. A Canadian expat who relocated to Taipei in the early ’00s, Kidd has at one point or another had a hand in just about every level of the local beer business. […]

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