Recollections of a chance encounter involving Henry Weston’s Vintage Cider and the chain of events that made it all possible.
A Henry Weston’s for the Ride

Beer Asia is proud to announce the launch of Stories, a series of articles on craft beer culture from contributors around Asia-Pacific region’s fast-growing beer scene.
We are excited our Beer Asia Stories has launched with Southern Cider Stories.
In the piece, Pavan Shamdasani dives into the craft cider culture in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), interviewing Saigon Cider and Bazan to give our readers a unique perspective on the growing cider scene in Vietnam.
From November 2021 onward, we will also be sharing a series of musings-cum-reviews compiled by Beer Asia’s very own Christopher Andel. These chronicles are centered around his personal drinking experiences of yesteryear as well as more recent times and will be published at regular intervals, starting with A Tribute to Tiger Beer.
Recollections of a chance encounter involving Henry Weston’s Vintage Cider and the chain of events that made it all possible.
Round up of a three night stay in Bratislava and the beer-fuelled sightseeing tours embarked on in the meantime.
A short study of the life and times of Gambrinus, the legendary ‘King of Beer’, and one of the brews that proudly bears his name.
An account of a brief fact-finding campaign to the medieval town of Bautzen and its picturesque pastoral surroundings.
Review of four Freiberger beers sampled at the brewery’s taproom and restaurant in Dresden’s historical city centre.