Craft Beer Watering Holes
It might be a contrary term — surely beer-making on any level is a craft — but the rise of the microbrewery, coupled with serious graphic designers and artists replacing the homemade labels of yore, means that hipsters and their hoptastic brews have liberated the international face of beer from big-bellied Tolkien fans. Here's our briefing on where to get the best brews around the world.
London
At the helm of London's emergent craft beer movement back in 2010 with now-closed Mason & Taylor — and still riding high on the success of Five Points Brewing Company — Ed Mason has revived his Mason &- moniker, alongside Rachel Jones of revered...
Johannesburg
When you stumble across a craft beer bar founded by a chemical engineer, you can hedge your bets that you’re going to be on to a good thing. Located within downtown Johannesburg's arts, craft, music, and food and drink regeneration...
Barcelona
Mikkeller's arrival in the Catalan capital caused a predictable stir late last year, the Danish microbrewery have achieved somewhat of a rock star-status among the international craft beer community, and each new opening — habitually accompanied...
Opening Soon • Manchester
It's as futile to talk about the emergence of craft beer as it is to point out that baristas wear long beards and dress like they've been working on a Victorian space flight program. Yet let us recap — for those who've been in a Castlemaine...
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a gargantuan city of some 10 million inhabitants and growing — and if the proposed Hong Kong-Shenzhen metropolis was to go ahead, that would be 'growing considerably'. It is 2016, which means: any good metropolis needs a craft beer...
London
Nobody does pubs like the British. Dimly lit, creaking floorboards, customers older than the decor — the romance of the Great British pub is unrivalled. Propping up a corner of residential Buckfast Street in Bethnal Green, The Kings Arms is as...
City Notes
Wow what just happened to my eyes? The Dutch adopted orange as their signature colour centuries ago after the rise of their popular House of Orange royals, and designers concrete have picked a particularly punchy shade for this Amsterdam beer bar...
London
“We're going to need a bigger brewery...” The good news for the Howling Hops folks was that their HQ in the basement of Hackney brew-pub, Cock Tavern, had turned the fledgling brewers into a roaring success. Despite an unprepossessing location,...
London
When I first came across Dalston brewery 40FT, PJ Harvey's 50ft Queenie popped into my head. It is 2:26 of rollicking, unrestrained tempestuousness that has rarely been bettered in over twenty years. But I haven't got a fucking clue what it's all...
Vancouver
The sign on the sidewalk at 15 West 8th Street, Vancouver, pretty much nails it. “33 Acres Brewing Co. Beer, coffee and snacks”, and that's the kind of promise that can waylay even the most purposeful pedestrian. True to their word,...
Philadelphia
Somewhat unusually with this type of hospitality project, the name for Tria Taproom drove the concept, rather than the other way around. It's the third location in Philadelphia for the Tria brand, and this time around the focus was firmly on the...
Manchester
After 10 years at the heart of Manchester's Northern Quarter scene, Common has had a complete makeover including — crucially — a bigger bar, and more beer! If that's not cause for celebration, we don't know what is. To achieve the expansion, a...
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
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With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
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