Featured – Beer Travelist http://beertravelist.com Drink Well. Travel Far. Mon, 19 Oct 2020 06:12:24 +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 Featured – Beer Travelist http://beertravelist.com 32 32 Where the Wild Things Are — A Dig into Sailors Grave Brewing in Orbost, Australia http://beertravelist.com/sailors-grave-brewing-victoria-craft-beer-breweries/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 01:46:13 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3471 When you make a beer with long-spined sea urchin your hands become stained a deep shade of purple for days. Scores of cracked shells bulging with mildly venomous black needles, bags of blended urchin guts hung in boiling wort, the brewery doubles as a killing floor sheathed by the pungent aroma of briny, brackish ocean. […]

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]]> Optimists Prime — Moon Dog Brewing Thinking Big in Melbourne, Australia http://beertravelist.com/moon-dog-brewing-craft-beer-melbourne-australia/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 06:53:13 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3431 The irony of releasing a beer called The Future is Bright smack dab in the middle of a global pandemic, and a few weeks into Melbourne’s (first) painful COVID-related lockdown, wasn’t lost on the Moon Dog Brewing crew. “We were feeling really shit,” says Dave Laglands, the brewery’s New Product Development and Export Sales Manager. […]

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]]> The Definitive Guide to Singapore Craft Beer Delivery http://beertravelist.com/singapore-craft-beer-delivery-2/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 02:29:54 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3360 They said life would never be the same again after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center almost 20 years ago, and it wasn’t. To cite just a few examples, by now we’re all used to increased surveillance, heightened militarization, tighter security checks, and the radical changes to commercial aviation that followed 9/11, but as time […]

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]]> In Vietnam, Brewing for a Better Tomorrow at 7 Bridges Brewing Company http://beertravelist.com/7-bridges-brewing-company-vietnam-craft-brewery/ Tue, 19 May 2020 08:13:22 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=3045 “Let me show you something. This is the future.” Bunkered down in the 7 Bridges Brewing Company Hanoi taproom—he’s living there for a few weeks during Vietnam’s lockdown—Stanley Boots briefly leaves our Zoom chat and returns fumbling with the contents of a brown paper bag. I expect, perhaps, a sneak peek at the brewery’s new […]

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]]> In Singapore, a Nineteenth-Century London Brewery is Back from the Dead http://beertravelist.com/lion-brewery-singapore-craft-beer/ Fri, 01 May 2020 07:32:59 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2949 This is a story of a long-forgotten London brewery resurrected on the other side of the planet almost 100 years after it passed out of existence, first due to acquisition and new ownership, and then once and for all by fire. Or so it seemed. Built on the South Bank of the River Thames in […]

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]]> South of Tokyo, a Heavy Metal Beerpocalypse at Yggdrasil Brewing http://beertravelist.com/yggdrasil-brewing-hiratsuka-japan-craft-beer/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 03:25:24 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2792 “An ash I know there stands, Yggdrasil is its name, a tall tree, showered with shining loam. From there come the dews that drop in the valleys.” – Völuspá, from Poetic Edda  When Shinsui Mori moved back to Japan following a stint at Godspeed Brewery in Toronto, Godspeed’s founder, Luc Lafontaine, helped him get his […]

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]]> In Hong Kong, Exploring Chinese Culture Through Beer at Moonzen Brewery http://beertravelist.com/moonzen-brewery-hong-kong-craft-beer/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:25:00 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2744 Moonzen Brewery co-founder Laszlo Raphael says his brewery navigates a terrain it “won’t go beyond,” but don’t mistake brand (and beer) clarity for a lack of temerity. When we last checked in on Moonzen, for instance, it was sitting on a barleywine that upon its debut six months later would become the world’s first beer […]

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]]> In Singapore, Off Day Beer Company Finds Strength in Numbers http://beertravelist.com/off-day-beer-singapore-craft-beer/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:51:31 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2714 It’s just two weeks since Off Day Beer Company launched in Singapore, and head brewer Daryl Yeap is back at the brewery brewing another batch because the first one is already sold out. The Off Day team thought it would last at least a month. That first 3,000-liter batch, roughly 80-percent of which was kegged […]

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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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]]> In Singapore, Brewlander Founder John Wei on Plans for a New Brewery and the State of Singapore Craft Beer http://beertravelist.com/brewlander-singapore-craft-brewery-interview/ Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:31:36 +0000 http://beertravelist.com/?p=2647 It’s official: award-winning craft brewery Brewlander is coming home for good. Based in Singapore, yet brewing (most) of its beer at a host brewery in Cambodia, Brewlander has juggled something of a double identity since its launch in early 2017. For founder John Wei, that meant weeks-long trips to Phnom Penh every month-and-a-half or so, […]

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