India. Gastropub circuit in Namma ‘Pub City’
The newly formed Bengaluru Tourism Advisory Committee (BTAC) plans to start a gastropub circuit in the city which brews its own beer, grows its own grapes and makes its own wine. (more…)
China’s Craft Beer Revolution
Local brewpubs are becoming well-known internationally, but are held back at home by government regulations. (more…)
As China’s craft beer craze takes off, brewers hatch ambitious plans
In the thin air of the Tibetan plateau, the grains are known as qingke. Traditionally, they are made into zanba, a dough made with yak butter. (more…)
India. Sequoia-backed Bira beer left high & dry by supply glitches, funds crunch
Last summer, it was one of the most popular beer in Delhi and Bengaluru. This summer, at most retail outlets Bira 91, the country’s first handcrafted beer, is out of stock. The reasons: the company failed to gauge demand correctly, and the arrangement with its sole bottler in Haryana fell through. Above all, it needed funds. (more…)
China. Difficulties of Chinese craft brewers
China does not suffer from lack of small breweries. In total, according to the industry experts there are more than 2000 breweries of various scales. Twenty years of merges and takeovers of big companies did not influence the operation of small entrepreneurs; many of them can produce craft beer. (more…)
Craft and crafty beer in China
According to Hai Tong Securities research report, the craft beer market in China is growing rapidly and the gross margine and net profit margine in this sector amount to 50% and 30% correspondently. This is much more than the producers of the traditional bottle beer earn. (more…)
India. Witlinger Craft Beer in bottles to beat the summer heat!
Witlinger craft beer positions itself as a brand associated with The Adventurer personality with the tag, “Fearless. Daring. Spontaneous. First to try”. Since that description fits me to “T”, the beer already had my attention before I had even taken a sip. While Witlinger has been available in India as a draft beer since April 2014, the event I attended at the British High Commission was its launch in bottles for the retail market. (more…)
India. Guzzling in Gurgaon: Women and young men keep it light, but older men prefer dark beer
Gurgaon being a hub of microbreweries, attracts a major chunk of NCR’s craft beer lovers. And these beer lovers have preferences of their own. Some like it light, while there are others who prefer a stronger flavour. A chat with some of the brewmasters in the microbreweries in the city will tell you that each type of beer, be it wheat, lager or dark, is preferred by a certain kind of drinker. To suit the taste of their customers, the brewers keep experimenting with the ingredients. Based on their observation, they tell us who in Gurgaon likes to guzzle what kind of beer. (more…)
India. IPA: the beer for the British imperial arsenal?
The India Pale Ale, or IPA for short, is often considered the most popular craft beer style, and one of the first styles many try upon entering the craft beer world. However, the origin of the style is the subject of an ongoing debate, with even reputable sources getting the story wrong. (more…)
China’s getting into IPAs
May 20 kicked off the fifth annual Shanghai Beer Week. Beer is huge in the world’s most populous nation, and craft beer is growing — Shanghai’s Boxing Cat Brewery even won a silver medal at last month’s World Beer Cup. According to reports by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, China has been both the world’s largest beer producer and consumer for more than 12 years. However, in 2014, domestic production declined for the first time in a decade, just as the craft beer market has started to grow. (more…)