Beer

Nov 13, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Lao Cai Lager

The bugbear of all brewers is consistency. While most of Southeast Asia’s lagers are dull, watery and forgettable, they can’t be faulted on their brewing process. Every beer comes from the factory with a taste that is of invariable quality. For all the poor base ingredients and surplus of rice

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Nov 03, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments

Drank in public

There’s two ways to enjoy beer. Firstly, the late and sorely-missed Michael Jackson in his apophthegmatically-titled Beer suggests that for proper close examination, beer is best enjoyed in the privacy of one’s own home, lest the neighbouring drinkers think that he or she is the sort of person that would

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Sep 28, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

Hite touts shite stout

Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Scouting about for a stout with no clout? Shout for Hite Stout. There are two things wrong with this stout. Firstly, that it’s black; and secondly, that it is not labelled as “lager” anywhere on the bottle. It is beer at its most deceptive. It’s

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Sep 17, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

US Department of Defense: The Best Brewers in South Korea

The best beer in South Korea is brewed by the US Armed Forces in Yongsan Garrison, dead in the centre of Seoul. The base itself is for all intents, a small American town, albeit an American hamlet with the purpose of keeping the North Koreans in North Korea. There’s a

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Sep 12, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Hite Exfeel-S: Alcoholic Colonic

Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Beer is not good for you. In large enough quantities, it has the invariable tendency to kill you and thus gussying it up as a health food defies explanation. Labeled as the “Stylish beer with fiber”, Korea’s Hite Exfeel-S attempts to market a beer that

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