An ode to the spellbinding city of Dresden, with its gripping past, its refined yet resilient inhabitants, and its stellar local brew.
The Jewel Box

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.
An ode to the spellbinding city of Dresden, with its gripping past, its refined yet resilient inhabitants, and its stellar local brew.
A long, hazy walk down memory lane triggered by a first dance with Shepherd Neame’s Whitstable Bay Organic Ale.
Review of a ten-pack celebrating the Restore Our Earth Collab Fest 2022, and the various partners, charities and brewers that made it happen.
A deferential consideration of the cleansing properties of alcoholic ginger beer and another, wholly unrelated matter.
August 2022 was barely underway when my mother and I set out for London. She had been looking forward to spending some time at my brother’s place ever since the start of spring and finally felt fit enough to make the trip, as long as air travel could be avoided. While both of us do […]