Beer Reviews

  Japan’s beer market is brutally competitive, crowded with technically polished big-brand lagers whose differences can seem subtle until you pay ...

  There is a small hill in Bavaria – not much to look at from the outside, maybe forty meters high, perched above a quiet town called Freising – t...

  It’s fitting that the path to Watou, a village in the West Flanders province of Belgium, feels like taking a pilgrimage: you leave a motorway an...

  Did you know that America's oldest brewery - one that was established in 1829 - is still well and alive, and very much still kicking? In fact, t...

  Mention “Laos” to someone who hasn’t been to Southeast Asia, and you’ll likely get a blank look or a half-formed thought: Isn’t that somewhere n...

  New Zealand’s beer culture is a flavourful stew, with ingredients of British pub tradition, a dash of European influence and American craft inno...

  Goose Island is a key name in the history of the American craft beer movement, and in its heyday, was a veritable cultural touchstone of Chicago...

  Imagine sinking your toes into warm sand, with sun kissing your skin as you gaze out at the shimmering Baltic Sea by the shoes of Timmendorf Str...

  When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Or in Hamish Coates' case, you make tons and tons of beer. Fresh out of university with a geology...

  Coopers Brewery occupies an interesting niche in the Australian brewing industry. It isn't one of those young, plucky craft breweries, popping u...

  In 1768, Captain James Cook set sail from England on HMS Endeavour towards the uncharted seas of Terra Australis Incognita. Unlike Christopher C...

  Let's talk about geuzes (gur-zes). It's a type of lambic sour beer, hailing from the Pajottenland region of Belgium southwest of Brussels and in...