Chum reap sour IPA. Just because I’m not a Khmer hipster commuting to my tech start-up job on a Penny-farthing fashioned out of bamboo doesn’t mean I can’t proffer a pompous opinion on craft ale in the Kingdom of Wonder. Don’t expect cicerone critiques though, just tongue-in-cheek tastings and humorous hot takes of various beers available here (or at least, […]
Kampucheers – Craft Ale in Cambodia Review
Thunderslap IPA – The Fascinating Story
If you have ever drunk craft beer in either Vietnam or Cambodia there is a high chance that you have stumbled upon a beer called the Thunderslap IPA. This is the flagship beer of Fuzzy Logic Brewing, a brewery that started in Vietnam but now also brews in Cambodia. It’s one of the few, maybe even the only, Southeast Asian […]
Kampot Craft Beer Festival – Interview with Slava
It’s the 30th of January 2020 and the Kampot Craft Beer Festival at Monkey Republic is taking place today. This event was supposed to be held already in December but because of a small Covid scare it got postponed. Unfortunately, I won’t have the chance to attend because of the recent opening of Crooked Brew. I still managed to have […]
The Yearly Blunder – Double NEIPA – Riel Brewing x Fuzzy Logic
The weekend 5th to 7th of June I had the chance to go to Siem Reap and watch the guys from Fuzzy Logic and Riel Brewing brew some beer. This beer, called The Yearly Blunder, had already been planned for a while and was now about to become reality. There were indeed quite a few funny blunders during the brewing […]
Elite Craft Beer Releases New Lineup of Craft Beers
Elite Craft Beer is back with a new lineup of beers. Elite Craft Beer is run buy Cambodian Jason who lived for many years in Australia but returned back to Cambodia a few years ago to pursue his dreams here. I ventured out to this brewery about a year ago when he was just starting out. At that time he […]
Two Rivers Ale – First New Cambodian Craft Beer Brewery of 2020
The world has definitely been upside down the whole beginning of 2020. For the craft beer industry this hasn’t necessarily been a terrible thing (albeit not good either) as people work less and have more time to sip a bunch of delicious beer. In Phnom Penh we have seen the Cerevisia Beer Tuk Tuk driving around and Embargo Craft Beer […]
Flowers Releases Berliner Weisse
Flowers Nanobrewery from Kampot keeps on experimenting. Not only is the brewer from Flowers experimenting with a lot of different styles but often they turn out really good too. This time Yuki the brewer has released a Berliner Weisse in collaboration with other Cambodian craft beer brewer the Local from Siem Reap. A Berliner Weisse is a wheat beer from […]
Riel Brewing & Pasteur Street Brewing Company Releases Collaboration Beer
Cambodian craft beer brewers Riel Brewing have teamed up with Pasteur Street Brewing Company, a popular craft beer brewery in Vietnam, to make a collaboration beer. The beer is just called Collab. IPA and it’s a West Coast IPA with an ABV of 6.6% and an IBU of 50. The story started simply by the Riel Brewing guys knowing Mischa […]
Holiday Greetings – A Year in Review of the Cambodian Craft Beer Scene
2019 is finally coming to an end and it has definitely been a great year for Cambodian Craft Beer, I can’t believe it has already been a year since the last time I wrote some New Years greetings. Breweries like Riel Brewing and Cerevisia has worked hard for many years laying the groundwork for the Cambodian Craft Beer scene and […]
Interview With Thai Craft Beer Brewers Eleventh Fort
Eleventh Fort has been one of my favourite brewers in Thailand the past few years. Their Black IPA is a must-try, but they also have other fantastic beers. Currently, this craft beer cannot be found in Cambodia, but considering that they produce some of their craft beers in Phnom Penh at Kingdom Breweries it’s not impossible that we would one […]