Craft beer and beer festivals, virtually unheard of five years ago, seem to be the rage nowadays. To commemorate the end of the summer, the Summer Beer and Music Festival, held tomorrow at Taipei’s historic 44 South Village (四四南村), will feature a wide selection of local and international brews.
Local breweries include 23 Brewing, Hardcore Brewery and Sambar Brewing. Danish microbrewery Mikkeller, which recently opened a bar in Taipei’s Datong District (大同區) will also have a stand, along with other international breweries such as Samuel Smith Brewery from the UK and Evil Twin Brewing from the US.
As Ting Ting from Sambar Brewing says, “craft beer is trendy, microbreweries are trendy — not large-scale, commercial breweries — and everyone wants to seem like they know a lot about craft beer.”
Photo: Dana Ter, Taipei Times
Don’t just go to the festival to talk craft beer though, by all means drink it.
■ 44 South Village (四四南村), 54 Songqin St, Taipei City (台北市松勤街54號). Tomorrow from 3pm to 9pm at
■ Admission is free. For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/events/280111285672290
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