Five of Singapore’s Best Beer Bars (and a Grungy, Divey Gem in Little India, Too)

JiBiru

JiBiru Japanese Craft Beer Bar – Located at 313@Somerset mall’s open-air Discovery Walk, sandwiched between the Charlie Brown Café and Brotzeit German Bier Bar & Restaurant, JiBiru, as its name suggests, deals primarily in imported bottles and kegs from a fistful of Japan microbreweries. The handpicked selection of Japanese microbrews is reason alone to favor JiBiru–near the beginning of any conversation concerning Singapore’s best beer bars–but the scope of craft beers here isn’t limited to Japan. << Read More

Smith Street Taps – Soft launched in January 2014 and hidden away on the second floor of labyrinthine Chinatown Complex Food Centre, Smith Street Taps is Singapore’s first (and still best) hawker stall exclusively serving local and imported craft beers on draft. It’s an appropriately spare space, with little distinguishing Smith Street Taps from neighboring stalls save for its signboard gleam, a clutch of beer posters, and small wooden-framed chalkboards, marked with the day’s draft lineup and prices, dangling from beneath the marquee. << Read More

Brewerkz Taphouse – Occupying a prime corner directly opposite Tawandang German Microbrewery — just up the hill from RedDot BrewHouse — Brewerkz Taphouse is an open-air,  clean-cut take on the American craft-cum-sports beer bar. It’s a pleasing, if not predictable aesthetic indoors, though outside you’ll find a cozy outdoor patio cooled by oscillating fans and, during the evening, lit by pretty multi-colored string lights — lovely spot to sip beers from this well-established Singaporean microbrewery while the sun goes down. << Read More

Mohican Pub, Singapore

Mohican Pub – A nuclear physicist was locked in a black-light lit room with nothing but a huge bag of pot and rolling papers flavored with fire-hot Indian spices, instructed to smoke the whole bag, and tasked with hashing out the concept for a dive bar in Singapore. When they were freed the next day, eyes like slits of blood-shot glass and ass flaming with psychedelic indigestion, they did so armed with a glorious conceit: an Indian-themed Indian bar located in Little India with live Indian music every night until 3 o’clock in the morning. << Read More

The Great Beer Experiment – One of 32 merchants at PasarBella, a swish, Western-style indoor market located in Bukit Timah’s expat-friendly Turf City complex, TGBE stocks anywhere from 120 – 150 different bottled beers at any given time, including Trappist ales from five of the world’s eight remaining beer-brewing monasteries. Come weekends, rare and oftentimes never-before-seen-in-Singapore beers are poured on three taps. << Read More

LeVeL33Situated on the 33rd floor of Tower 1 at the Marina Bay Financial Centre, sandwiched between the Marina Bay Sands hotel on one side and the Lincoln Log skyscrapers of the CBD on the other, LeVeL33 offers what I feel are the best views of central Singapore. On clear days you can see for miles; this really is a prime vantage point from which to soak in the considerable scenery near and far. This is one of the first places I take out-of-town visitors, and it’s always one of the first places they mention as a highlight of their time in Singapore. << Read More

Brian Spencer is a freelance writer and editor based in Singapore; more of his work for the Perceptive Travel Blog is here.

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