Singapore, Jul 26th 2024 – Beer enthusiasts rejoice! Smith Street Taps and friends bring you Pint Fest, an all-you-can-taste craft beer festival launching on August 11 2024. This unique event promises an intimate and exclusive experience with five of the most revered names in the craft beer industry. Held at Chimichanga VivoCity, attendees can enjoy unlimited tastings from these esteemed partners in a free-flow format.
Pint Fest aims to celebrate the craftsmanship and diversity of artisanal beer, offering attendees an up-close encounter with beers that have gained a cult following among connoisseurs. Each brewery participating in this mini festival brings its own distinct flavours and brewing techniques, ensuring a varied and memorable tasting experience.
The five craft beer partners – One Drop Brewing Co., Alive Brewing, Rocky Ridge Brewing Co, Tempest Brewing Co and Super Bueno – are no strangers to the local market.
Pint Fest will feature 9 exceptional craft beers of different styles, set in a relaxed atmosphere with live beats, and tasty bites.
The event will be ticketed and include a 3 hour free-flow, allowing guests to sample their favourite beers and discover new ones without limitation.
Ticket Information:
Pre-sale: 1 for $65 or 2 for $120
Door Sale: 1 for $69
All tickets include:
> 3 hours free-flow craft beers
> Your own glassware to use and take home
> 10% off Mexican delights and other beverages
Tickets available at chimichanga.sg/pintfest
More about the beers festival goers will be tasting:
| Brewer | Beer | Type | ABV |
| One Drop Brewing Co. | Sketch An Imperial Pastry Stout made from the first-runnings of 3 different mashes, boiled for copious amounts of minutes, and conditioned for ages in stainless on Nutella®, honeycomb, milk sugar, and toasted marshmallow for good measure. Black as night and thick as oil, this is one chonky sugar-rich sud tube that’ll keep you on your toes with every sip. A black book full of German Montanas. | Imperial Pastry Stout | 10.2% |
| Join the Dots A new topped-up-to-the-brim kettle sour that’s been given full Ice-Cream Smoothie Treatment. Starting with a lactose and wheat heavy base soured with their house lacto culture, they’ve then gone and rolled up some mean dots of mango, raspberry, blackcurrant, and marshmallow, with a touch of vanilla ice cream powder. | Ice Cream Sour | 6.0% | |
| Rocky Ridge Brewing Co. | Nakama in collaboration with Totopia Brewery Totopia Brewing, hailing from Nagakute, Japan, has truly mastered the art of Sour IPA. As the legends they are, they’ve generously entrusted Rossco with their coveted recipe book. Thus, emerges their collaboration: Hops on Nihon, a Fruited Sour IPA. It’s a testament to the fusion of cultures and flavors, where the expertise of Totopia meets Rossco’s innovative touch. Just like Japan itself, this beer is a harmonious blend of tradition and modernity, offering a journey through taste that’s both familiar and refreshingly unexpected. | IPA – Sour | 5.8% |
| Dua Dipa in collaboration with Tap Out Craft Beers DIPA brewed with Rakau (NZ), Ella (AUS) and Eclipse (AUS) Hops. A collaboration with Singaporean Bars Freebird and Tapout. | IPA – Imperial/Double | 8% | |
| Tempest Brewing Co. | Mexicake Tempest Brewing Co, loves mexico! not least because of the culinary gifts it has given to the world. Both chocolate and vanilla beans are indigenous to Mexico and nowhere on the planet celebrates the nuances of the chile (not chilli or chili) more than in its homeland. Their love for Mexican culture and food is the reason they made this rich, boozy imperial stout infused with vanilla beans, cocoa, cinnamon, chipotle and mulato chiles. Sweet, smokey, hot, fruity, delicious. Buen provecho! | Stout – Imperial /Double Pastry | 10% |
| Parallel Minds A classic IPA that sings of citrus and tropical hop notes with a little piney resinous. | IPA – American | 5.2% | |
| Alive Brewing | Power Pleaser Pilsner Brewed with extra care to deliver the most crispy and quenching lager ever! This beer was inspired by their trip to Europe (Estonia, Sweden, Germany) in late 2023 where they experienced the most immaculately clean yet flavourful lagers. Taste the Power! | Pilsner | 5% |
| Dog Democracy WC-DIPA Every dog has its day! Their brand new West Coast style Double IPA is brimming with familiar piney resinous flavours alongside a juicy citrus forward mid-palate. This might be the winning recipe – cheers to the underdogs! | IPA – Imperial/Double | 8% | |
| Super Bueno | Super Bueno Mexican Lager Super Bueno is the exclusive in-house brand of craft beer available on draft in all Chimichanga and Chimi’s outlets in Singapore. General Descriptio It is a Mexican Lager with hints of Kaffir Lime and Acapulco Salt. It’s crisp, light, refreshing but flavourful. | Lager – Mexican | 4.5% |
Whether you’re a seasoned beer connoisseur or just beginning your journey, Pint Fest offers an opportunity to explore and enjoy a variety of exceptional brews. Mark your calendars for August 11, 2024.
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About the brands:
One Drop Brewing Co
At One Drop Brewing Co., our journey began with a shared vision and a passion for creating a unique community-centric experience. Meg and Clay, husband and wife, embarked on a quest to bring a brewery to Botany, an area devoid of such a venue. Despite lacking prior beer experience and facing funding challenges, their determination led them to their dream.
During a transformative trip to Europe, they discovered inspiration in breweries across the continent. Serendipitously, they encountered Nick, a talented Kiwi brewer, in Croatia. The connection was instantaneous, and One Drop Brewing Co. was born. Our constant source of excitement lies in the art of creation. Drawing on our collective creativity, we infuse our beers with unconventional flavors and ideas. A brainstorming machine, we find inspiration in everything from potato chips to desserts, resulting in extraordinary and fearless brews.
Rocky Ridge Brewing Co
Here at Rocky Ridge, we take a couple of things seriously: making F*&^ing good beer, and, importantly, not messing with the planet. Our story is long and proud. We’ve evolved from humble beginnings here on our farm to build a thriving, community-focused brewery. Our aim is simple: to make F*&^ing good beer, using the best local produce, farmed in the best way, with the least environmental impact.
We are Australia’s first Certified Sustainable Brewery and committed to net zero emissions from the brewing process by 2025.
Our farm and brewery take their name from a natural outcrop of ironstone that runs through the centre of our farm; “Rocky Ridge” perfectly sums up our slice of paradise and ironically sums up the somewhat rocky road that we are on as well.
We acknowledge the Wadandi People, traditional custodians of the land on which we work, and acknowledge the elders past, present, and emerging.
Alive Brewing
Alive Brewing is a modern Singapore brewery established in 2020 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic by a small team of 2 friends from school: a financial analyst fascinated with craft beer and home brewing; a chemical engineer inspired by art and design. Since then, we have been pursuing our obsession with brewing a wide range of delicious beers, paired with characterful designs.
Our philosophy is to produce a myriad of beer styles that are highly delectable and satisfying to taste. Whether it is a simple or an extravagant beer, we are relentless in brewing and delivering them in the most exacting way possible. We hope to bring our passions to both craft beer enthusiasts and the broader base of beer drinkers wanting to explore and experience great tasting beers. Join us on our journey and keep beers Alive!
Tempest Brew Co.
Every beer we brew is a collaborative effort between everyone in the team; from conceptualisation, to brewing, to packaging, to marketing. Yet, this is by no means a linear process: we iterate at every stage to ensure every beer we create is a beer we’re proud of.
We’ve no interest in trend-jacking, instead we seek inspiration from other places: music, art, literature, food, nature. Each beer we make is a story to tell and an opportunity to transport the drinker to another place.
Super Bueno
It is the exclusive in-house brand of craft beer available on draft in all Chimi’s and Chimichanga outlets in Singapore. We work with a local brewery, Brewerkz to come up with Singapore’s first salt and lime Mexican Lager.
About Smith Street Taps
Smith Street Taps is Singapore’s original all-draft craft beer hawker stall in Chinatown run by two of the country’s earliest craft beer pioneers, Meng Chao and Daniel Goh.
About Chimichanga
Chimichanga, a pioneering name in the casual Mexican restaurant scene since 2016, is
delighted to announce its latest triumph: the grand opening of its newest and largest outlet at
VivoCity—Singapore’s largest shopping centre. This milestone unveiling introduces a 160-
seat culinary haven extending over 4,000 square feet, complete with both inviting indoor
seating and an alfresco dining atmosphere. Situated along the mall’s scenic waterfront, this
newest outlet offers views of the sea, Sentosa and a seafood-forward menu inspired by the
Pacific Coast of Mexico.
From its first foray in Little India, Chimichanga has become synonymous with a unique
Singaporean twist on classic Mexican dishes, blending the zest of Mexican spices with
flavours that resonate with local tastes. This innovative approach has led to the flourishing of
the brand, which includes the launch of Chimi’s at Marina Bay in 2018, the welcoming of Chimichanga Holland Village in 2020, and the exciting openings of Chimi’s
Somerset and Chimichanga Paya Lebar in 2022.
With a portfolio of six locations under the Chimichanga and Chimi’s brands, the
establishment takes pride in offering an eclectic mix of robust dishes like Burritos, Tacos,
Quesadillas, and Chimichangas, as well as gourmet selections like the beloved Angus
Ribeye and Lamb Cutlets. Accompanying these flavourful meals are hand-crafted cocktails,
including Frozen Margaritas, and the distinct taste of their own Neon Donkey Cerveza.
Step into the world of Chimichanga and Chimi’s, where a diverse array of dishes and
handcrafted drinks await to add a touch of excitement to your everyday dining experience.
