Feature Stories

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

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

"Who among us can deny? We love a good fire... we love a good fire." - Clutch, "A Good Fire" As our three-way Skype chat wound down, Pedro Fernandes and

Casey Choo pours sweat as he wipes sweat from his glasses with his sweaty t-shirt. Clambering in thick rubber boots down from a brew kettle, his thick black beard and

Traffic isn’t moving on Yanwu Bridge at the Yanwu Road exit, again, and it’s all one man's fault. “This mess exists around here because we made the Fujian political leaders

Kneeling beside one of two brite tanks in his two-month-old Ballina brewery, Matt Wilson scoops foam from fresh glasses of Cali Cream, a feather-light 4.5% cream ale brewed with all

Though today there are more than 500 breweries across Australia, as recently as the 1980s there were only eight, most of them prizing quantity over quality as they pumped out

Winter has always been a time of hibernation in New Zealand’s windy capital city, and for good reason. From June to September, the average daily low dips to more than

When conversation shifts to the state of Singapore’s increasingly crowded beer scene, Sean McLin furrows his brow and gesticulates animatedly, at least by the standards of the otherwise calm, even-keeled

Seated at one of the precious few covetous tables on LeVeL33’s sky-high outdoor patio, the second of the twice-nightly Spectra laser light show beaming into the bay below her from

Brent McGlashen stands in his factory at Mac Hops, gazing into sheets of rain drifting past the empty wooden hop trellises. It’s a cool autumn day a couple of months

A formative moment in any young, Australian beer drinker’s life is discovering that Foster’s still exists and, in fact, thrives abroad. The frightful lager that purports to be “Australian for

"Whatever I say is completely irrelevant, and any brewery you talk to is just marketing. They’re just selling a story, true or not, interesting or not." - Evin O'Riordain, Founder,

"It's about time you started learning, started learning to come to where the flavor is..." - Clutch, "Walking in the Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks" “Hey, in China we have

Without resorting to idiom, it can be said that a significant turning point in the life of Luke Yardley came when he saw his life going down the toilet. “I

We're back with the second part of our rambling chat about all things beer with London beer writers Will Hawkes and Matthew Curtis, who we meet over pints at lovely