Hopulist Issue 7
Welcome to issue seven of Hopulist… • Take a trip to Singapore with us. • Exclusive interview with top writer Matthew Curtis • We prove craft beer on a budget is possible. • A guide to 2019’s best craft beer events. • Our picks of what beer is hot right now • All the freshest beer merch to keep you looking slick
Welcome to issue seven of Hopulist…
• Take a trip to Singapore with us.
• Exclusive interview with top writer Matthew Curtis
• We prove craft beer on a budget is possible.
• A guide to 2019’s best craft beer events.
• Our picks of what beer is hot right now
• All the freshest beer merch to keep you looking slick
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or night. Beach Road is one of the epicentres of trade and<br />
splendour in Singapore and the next bar I’d highlighted just<br />
happened to be right in that proverbial mixer. The Armoury<br />
described itself as a lively craft beer and gastro bar with exotic<br />
beers – I’ll be the judge of that, I thought. And so I was.<br />
The bar’s exterior impressed, boasting colonial-era heritage of<br />
its former life as an actual armoury. I dashed through the front<br />
door, narrowly avoiding a monumental soaking from a rainstorm<br />
that had just started as I approached the bar. It’s a common part<br />
of living in this part of the world, with the all-year-round warmth<br />
comes tropical showers that can soak you to the bone in seconds.<br />
Immediately I was struck by a definite ‘professionals after work’<br />
vibe, but also a laidback ambience that made me feel comfortable<br />
to pull up to a table at the back and order a Freshly Squeezed IPA<br />
from Deschutes Brewery of the United States.<br />
The Armoury has a great range of American craft from names<br />
like Rogue and Stone and also some Japanese favourites like<br />
Hitachino. I tried one of the excellent burgers on offer 0and<br />
decided to make a hasty exit as a live band was setting up for the<br />
night – it was a Friday, so I envisaged things getting a little more<br />
rowdy than I was up for.<br />
Luckily the next stop was only a short (and thankfully covered)<br />
walk away – The Alchemist Beer Lab. The name sounded<br />
promising and when I learned while researching it that it only<br />
serves beer it brews in its own infusion beer towers, I was sold.<br />
The bar benefits from the inquisitive genius of award-winning<br />
brewmaster Steve Spinney, who together with owner Francis Khoo<br />
have experimented with making beers that are often curious and<br />
never dull. It seemed only right that I sampled as many beers as<br />
possible here, so I ordered a flight comprising of Sister Golden<br />
Ale, Whiter Shade of Pale Ale, Stars and Bars American IPA and<br />
Flaming Lips ginger beer. Each beer was a slight tweak on a classic<br />
and they were all made more enjoyable by the fact I sat outside on<br />
the bar’s patio and watched the seemingly never-ending world of<br />
Singapore high-flying business go by around me.<br />
“The international<br />
feel of Singapore<br />
is everywhere<br />
you go. It’s in the<br />
architecture, the<br />
wide range of<br />
languages spoken,<br />
the religions<br />
practiced and,<br />
thankfully for us, the<br />
beer drunk.”