The season to year-end parties started for us last Friday when we had the privilege of attending FHM’s Rock Xmas Party held at Bar None. Like most parties, it was a time of toasting with a select group of friends and contacts, the sort that you tend to only see at parties, especially when there’s [...]
Getting celebrities to perform exclusively for you is a party trick reserved for the privileged few. Sure, we’ve heard of sultans hiring the likes of the late Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey to sing at their palaces. Or even someone like Paris Hilton (yes, she sings and has at least one album to her name) [...]
It’s been a tough year. You’ve worked hard. The time has come to party even harder. So if you haven’t started planning a gazillion parties in a row till 2011, here’s one to start you off in our latest Good Things Must Share (GTMS) series of alco-helpful posts. A low cost specially prepared X’mas buffet [...]
Quiz: Which is the 175proofers’ favourite ‘pint of black stuff’ that contains only 198 calories per pint. That is less than most light beer, wine, OJ, or even light milk. Which city in South East Asia has a population of 23 million people, the 4th largest urban area in the world, no less, and will [...]
Beer companies have always been known to be creative in their marketing – just look at the number of accolade-winning television commercials and publicity stunts. In Singapore recently, Asia Pacific Breweries, the good folks that brew the much-loved Tiger beer, as well as Heineken (under license), have sent us a press/blogger kit that brought a [...]
Like Starbucks that were sprouting up at every corner of the street a decade back, gastro pubs have been emerging in cities all over the world. Look at London and even Gordon Ramsey has setup his own gastronomical watering hole. These days, the original philosophy of serving culinary delights (as opposed to wedges with instant curry [...]
It was an international showing of food, folks and frothy beer – organised by The Drinking Partners (@drinkinpartners). Was glad to have met Dennis who’s about to move his Just Beer neighbourhood watering hole from Ridgewood to Orchard Atrium. There was too much good food and beer so I’ll let your eyes savour what my [...]
Facebook 1 | Catch the Guinness Adventures Beer Ambassadors. Catch the Guinness Beer Ambassadors on Saturday 11th September from 8:00pm – Sunday at 12:00am! Beat the clock on the Guinness Adventures Challenge & win a pint of Guinness Draught from us. We will be at: 1) The Chamber @ Capital Square – 21 Church Street [...]
Need we say more? Dennis Chan, a friend we made at the Belgium beer tasting session (see upcoming post), has moved his Ridgewood suburban pub to the heart of the city – Orchard Road. We’re gonna be there to lend support and down a couple of Warsteiners & Konigs – its been awhile since we [...]
Last month, we had an entry on World’s Top Brewery Tours where we mentioned a few brewery tours, one of which was the Tiger beer tour. Last week, we did get invited to tour the brewery at Asia Pacific Brewery, the mothership of Tiger. While it wasn’t our first visit to the brewery, it’s always [...]
