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Hopulist Issue 7

Welcome to issue seven of Hopulist… • Take a trip to Singapore with us. • Exclusive interview with top writer Matthew Curtis • We prove craft beer on a budget is possible. • A guide to 2019’s best craft beer events. • Our picks of what beer is hot right now • All the freshest beer merch to keep you looking slick

Welcome to issue seven of Hopulist…
• Take a trip to Singapore with us.
• Exclusive interview with top writer Matthew Curtis
• We prove craft beer on a budget is possible.
• A guide to 2019’s best craft beer events.
• Our picks of what beer is hot right now
• All the freshest beer merch to keep you looking slick

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LITTLE RED DOT<br />

After a full day of sightseeing upon first arriving in Singapore,<br />

my feet had begun to throb and my throat had begun to<br />

crave the cool, refreshing and hoppy relief of a craft beer. I’d<br />

walked miles – literally – while exploring sights including<br />

the glamourous mega-luxury hotel Marina Bay Sands, the<br />

peaceful retreat that is Gardens by the Bay and the many<br />

historic, colonial-style buildings that line the streets pretty much<br />

everywhere you look in the centre of the city. And it was among<br />

some of this historic architecture that I stumbled across the first<br />

stop on my list of meticulously researched craft beer venues –<br />

Red Dot.<br />

Nestled in Boat Quay, a tributary that comes off the main<br />

marina, Red Dot is so named after the affectionate nickname<br />

Singapore has been known as for many years – the little red<br />

dot. The name simply refers to how this city state appears on<br />

maps due to its small size, but there’s nothing small about the<br />

ambition or grandeur of Red Dot Brewhouse.<br />

The venue claims to be the very first locally-owned,<br />

independent microbrewery in Singapore, with brewmaster Ernest<br />

Ng having become a home brewer and started the bar back in<br />

1997. All of the beer sold at Red Dot is brewed on site and the<br />

selection is impressive. There’s a core range comprising pilsners,<br />

wheat beers, IPAs, English ales, summer ales and lagers – and<br />

then a constantly rotating spectrum of seasonal beers too. Red<br />

Dot has a brewing capacity of 17,000 litres and its state-of-the-art<br />

facility meets the standards of the American Society of Engineers,<br />

but all that technical stuff aside, by just sampling one of the beers,<br />

I knew I’d started my craft beer adventure in a great place.<br />

I opted for a lime wheat beer from the seasonal menu that was<br />

a good steady start – made all the better by the fact I enjoyed it<br />

from Red Dot’s quayside terrace. Watching boats glide past on<br />

the water that sparkled with the reflections of the skyscrapers<br />

with colonial stonework surrounding them, I knew I was in for<br />

a great trip.<br />

“Watching boats<br />

glide past on the<br />

water that sparkled<br />

with the reflections of<br />

the skyscrapers with<br />

colonial stonework<br />

surrounding them, I<br />

knew I was in for a<br />

great trip.”

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