At Pint Fest, Enjoy 3 Hours of Free Flow Craft Beers
Craft beer lovers in Singapore should mark their calendars for Sunday 11 August 2024, when the folks behind Smith Street Taps and their friends present Pint Fest at the Chimichanga Vivocity outlet. From 3 to 6 p.m. that day, you get to sample nine different beers from five breweries and revisit the ones you like as often as you can handle them!
Why Go to Pint Fest?
At Pint Fest, you’ll get an up-close encounter with beers from breweries that have gained a cult following among connoisseurs locally and abroad. Each brings its own style, expressed through their brewing techniques and the distinct blend of flavours. You have a local nanobrewery that’s just as adept at clean lagers and super-fresh hoppy IPAs, masters of rich dessert-like beers from Down Under, and even a legendary stout inspired by spiced hot chocolate.
As we often say, there’s a beer for everyone’s taste –if someone says they don’t like beer they just haven’t the one for them. The line-up at Pint Fest will ensure varied and memorable tasting experience. Whether you want something clean and simple, bright and fruity, or absolutely decadent, they’ve got you covered, and there will be food and live music too.
What’s on offer at Pint Fest
The five breweries that will be taking part in Pint Fest are Alive (Singapore), One Drop (Australia), Rocky Ridge (Australia), Super Bueno (Singapore) and Tempest (Scotland), and these are what they’ll be pouring.
| Brewery | Beer | Style | ABV (%) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alive | Power Pleaser | Pilsner | 5 | A clean and crisp pilsner in the classic vein, inspired by the brewers’ trip through Estonia, Germany and Sweden. |
| Alive | Dog Democracy | West Coast Double IPA | 8 | A piney, resinous, citrusy double IPA with stone fruit notes that recalls certain famous beers named after ancient Roman writers. |
| One Drop | Join The Dots | Pastry Sour | 6 | Brewed with mango, raspberry, blackcurrant, and marshmallow, with a touch of vanilla ice-cream powder, atop a lactose and wheat base. |
| One Drop | Sketch | Imperial Pastry Stout | 10.2 | A thick and sweet imperial pastry stout made from the first-runnings of 3 different mashes and conditioned on Nutella®, honeycomb, milk sugar, and toasted marshmallow. |
| Rocky Ridge | Nakama | Sour IPA | 5.8 | A collaboration with the sour IPA specialists from Japan. Red berries and peaches galore in the fragrance and on the palate. |
| Rocky Ridge | Dua Dipa | Double IPA | 8 | Eclipse, Ella and Rakau hops went into this collaboration with Katong bars Freebird and Tapout, producing notes of mango and citrus bitterness. |
| Super Bueno | Mexican Lager | Lager | 4.5 | A crisp and light lager infused with makrut lime and sea salt. |
| Tempest | Parallel Minds | American IPA | 5.2 | Citrusy and tropical hops with a little piney resinous note in the classic IPA style. |
| Tempest | Mexicake | Imperial Pastry Stout | 10 | A rich, boozy imperial stout infused with vanilla beans, cocoa, cinnamon, chipotle and mulato chiles. Sweet, smokey, piquant, and fruity. |
There’s no set order that you have to drink these beers in. You can start with the crisp and bitter beers first (the lager, pilsner and IPA) before the bolder double IPAs and finish with the sweet beers. You could use those as palate fresheners instead, even if they are so much better than that. It’s entirely up to you at Pint Fest!
Got no idea what those styles mean? Check out the guide to craft beer.
How much does Pint Fest cost?
Pre-event tickets go for $65 for one, or $120 for two. At the door, they will be $69. Assuming you try every beer, that’s as little as $6.67 per drink on average–and we’re talking about craft beer here. And that includes the take-home glassware that comes with your ticket and 10% discount on Chimichanga’s Mexican food and beverage menu.
Tickets can be purchased through chimichanga.sg/pintfest. Go try some great beer, meet some wicked craft beer afficionados, and enjoy yourself! And when you are done, there are plenty of places to try more of the breweries’ offerings on the Singapore Craft Beer Map.
