Brand News This Year’s Biggest Craft Beer Festival Is Happening in Angeles City This December The 1st Annual Angeles City Craft Beer Festival will bring 17 microbreweries and over 100 craft beers to Marquee Mall’s outdoor Marquee Park in Angeles City, Pampanga from December 2 to 4, 2016. It’s the first festival of its kind in Central and Northern Luzon. Ted Lerner, the American pool announcer and author who organized the festival, says that in … Read More
Brand News The PCK Forms to Create a Craft Beer Revolution With the growing number of home brewers and microbreweries in the country, how do you know which craft beers are legit? How regulated is the industry? How do you know that the beers produced and packaged correctly and safely? Who oversees quality control? Enter The PCK, an association that carries the “best of the best” craft beer breweries in Metro … Read More
Events Why You Should Watch Out for Serbesa MNL’s Next Pop-Up Event We are experiencing an evolution in bar and cocktail culture with different concepts popping up to a receptive public eager to try new things. The pop-up bar concept itself is still fairly new territory in the local scene. Serbesa MNL—the brainchild of Jazelle Carandang—is a pop-up bar + food concept that pairs food with select local beers and homemade cocktails. … Read More
Events Spook-tacular Parties Around The Metro Trick and treat yourself this Halloween to a frightening night of revelry you won’t soon forget (or remember, not if the ghosts can help it). Yes please, we’ll take the candy with shameless amounts of booze as well! Around the metro, the bars are dimming the lights and setting up their monsters, zombies, pumpkins, and Bloody Marys. Take part in … Read More
Drinking 101 Beer 101: An Introduction to Beer It’s already October, the month of Halloween, continuous Christmas songs, and Oktoberfest. There are many events around the world to celebrate the beer festival. It is believed that the Sumerians accidentally discovered beer six to eight thousand years ago. And the methods have been refined over millennia. Like wine, beer has numerous styles and varieties. While the Philippine’s beer market … Read More
Events Heineken’s Official Manila Launch For decades now, Heineken, the World’s #1 International Premium Beer, has had a constant presence in the Philippine market. There have been events and ad campaigns sponsored by Heineken over the years, one of which was the successful tie-up with a James Bond film. It’s surprising to hear that Heineken was only formally launched in Manila in September at the … Read More
Brand News Craftpoint Brewing Co. Celebrates Third Anniversary with New Dark Beer Local microbrewery Craftpoint Brewing Co. celebrated its third anniversary at Satchmi this month with the introduction of Redemption, a spicy Belgian stout. It’s the third beer in the company’s Revolution series after Liberation (a spicy, fruity pale ale) and Revolution (an IPA Tripel). “I’m a coffee drinker, so I like stouts,” explains master brewer Aldous Bernardo, who founded Craftpoint in … Read More
Tipple Tales Craftpoint Brewing Co.’s Aldous Bernardo’s Tips for Tasting Craft Beer One thing we like about Craftpoint’s packaging is the detailed serving suggestions on every bottle. While it’s trendy right now for beverage companies to say, “The way you want to drink it is the right way to drink it,” the team puts a lot of thought into creating unique and unexpected flavors and they want drinkers to have the best … Read More
Wish List Would You Drink Beer-Flavored Whisky? “Experimental” is not a word we normally associate with big whisky brands, but William Grant & Sons-owned Glenfiddich is aiming to change that. Its new Experimental Series pushes the boundaries of traditional whiskymaking. First up: the Glenfiddich IPA Experiment, the first single malt whisky that’s finished in IPA beer casks. William Grant & Sons master blender Brian Kinsman collaborated with … Read More