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 branding, or maybe the reveal of, say, a locally foraged yeast that’s going to transform 7 Bridges beer. Something like that...

When Shinsui Mori moved back to Japan following a stint at Godspeed Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Godspeed’s founder, Luc Lafontaine, helped him get his foot in the door at an old friend’s new brewery in Hiratsuka, about 65 kilometers south of Tokyo. Mori of course had the requisite brewing credentials but, perhaps just as important...

When the Tabebuia rosea bloom they tint Singapura in fleeting speckles of brilliant fuschia. The splendor occurs twice a year and lasts only days before the trees’ trumpet-shaped begonias fall to the ground, blanketing sidewalks and highways and byways in swaths of pink petals. In just a few more days the flowers wilt black and disappear, forgotten. “We celebrate beautiful things in life,” says Hong Han Teo, founder of Pink Blossoms Brewing. “The cherry blossom reminds us of spring, and how eve

It is a wild, raucous, life-affirming scene at Stone & Wood’s original brewery in Byron Bay, one of those times when it feels incredible just to be alive. It’s one with an unmistakably communal feel, too. There are likely a handful of out-of-towners here (including me and my wife), but Stone & Wood’s signature annual fundraising event is first and foremost a local affair. Everybody seems to know somebody, and some probably know just about everybody.

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 drunk,” chuckles David Krings...

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.

“Hey, in China we have more than 20 cities with more than 30 million people. And here in Shanghai, I can say that I’m the best place for craft beer in a district of more than 6 million people!”

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.

All Singapore Airlines wanted was Garage Project to pour a few beers at a party in New Zealand. To celebrate the September 2016 launch of its new Capital Express flight route, which links Wellington with Canberra with Singapore, the airline feted Wellington’s...

Ron might reach five-feet tall on his tippy toes with boots on. The swaggering 37-year-old isn’t close to that height, though, in the purple kid-sized flip-flops he wears on a hike leading me and our photographer...

Inspiration struck unexpectedly when Jack Cameron woke at six o’clock in the morning with lyrics from a Disney sea shanty sailing through his head. Naming a brewery is no small matter, and after endless attempts to do so that were, in Cameron’s words, “all garbage,” he and his partners...

If there is one constant about Southeast Asia's favorite city-state, it is that there's always somewhere new to eat, drink, and explore.

Leaning forward on a bar stool at Hong Kong’s revered pub The Globe, the soft-spoken founder of Hong Kong brewery Young Master Ales sips a pint of his Rye on Wood, a malty ale brewed with two varieties of rye grains...

On the night before Clutch played to a full house last fall at the Tvornica Kulture club in Zagreb, Croatia, the band ventured out for a few beers and by evening’s end developed a particular affinity for the lagers from local brewery Pivnica Medvedgrad...

In an open kitchen cramped by a four-ton brick kiln, a small army of prep cooks plunges into the controlled chaos of a midweek lunch rush...

Thriving again thanks to an influx of cafes, bars, and art galleries, London's historic Regent's Canal is an everyday escape for in-the-know Londoners.

As band and brewery collaborations become more common, new research suggests possible neurological connections between how we process taste and sound.

In which I emerge from Hong Kong's annual Beertopia festival with a report on 10 beers (and breweries) worth hunting across the Asia-Pacific region.

Three upstart breweries land in Singapore, attempting to shake up what has become in recent years a rather stagnant local brewing culture.

Starting on page 56, I run down some of the best places to enjoy a proper beer in Singapore.