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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 29m

That was by far the biggest surprise on the menu!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 2h

I did once come across a Festbier labeled as a Märzen, which was even more baffling.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 2h

34B was kind of hilarious. I was like “wait, did they really add Cold IPA?” No, just “Mixed Style Beer.”

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 2h

I remain undefeated in showing up at beer bars in foreign countries and being asked “how did you find out about this place?” Beer Garret in Shanghai is one such place, a 10-seat bar where they have the BJCP categories for each beer listed on the menu.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 8h

I’ve been beating this drum for years. It’s fine to call your Marzen “Oktoberfest,” but don’t you dare call it Festbier.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 03/10/2026

The entire tri-state, too! The Test, Root + Branch, Tin Barn, Autodidact, NJ Beer Co. all on tap!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 03/10/2026

Found the most preposterous beer bar in the world, 233 Bar in Shanghai. 80 taps, the vast majority American, a lineup of cans that would blow away the biggest hophead, a cellar full of rare gems, and a bold mission statement.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 03/10/2026

Sure, you can’t buy Tree House cans in New York City, but you can buy them in Shanghai and have you considered all the thirsty Chinese beer nerds?

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 02/10/2026

All but one of these are American beers. One of the American beers is from Evil Twin. It’s not the one you think!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 02/10/2026

Hello from a touristy beer bar and coffee shop in Tianzifang, where there are as many cat as human customers at the moment.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 30/09/2026

Hey beer team, would love any beer and food recommendations you have in Shanghai, particularly for this American who is intimidated by Mainland China despite all the preparation I’ve done.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 30/09/2026

Came recommended by a friend, it’s called LeVeL33. Loved the Festbier!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 29/09/2026

Funny enough, my Brooklyn Pils was brewed in China.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 29/09/2026

I get there’s probably not huge demand for PBR overseas, but I just assumed that this bottle I drank tonight in Singapore would’ve been brewed under contract somewhere closer than 9,500 miles away.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 26/09/2026

Made to Ho Chi Minh City and stopped into East West Brewing Company, a stunning space on a busy street with some really inventive beers.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 25/09/2026

Did the thing and did it with the appropriate beer.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 24/09/2026

Okay, sure, let’s call Cold IPA “Steam IPA” now. Words don’t matter anymore, anyway! (In their defense, they literally describe this beer on the can as “blasphemous.”)

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 24/09/2026

This is extremely niche New England-based content, but when I see this brewery in Vietnam, I think: 🎶 We’re beer when you need us, call 1-800-EASTWEST 🎶

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 24/09/2026

I mean, all craft beer is here. Went to a spot last night where I was the only white person in the restaurant and had a Tiger for less than a quarter of the price of what I paid for that beer. The contrast is stark.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 23/09/2026

It was also the most expensive beer on the menu, at $4.22 US for a pour. The next 7 days in Vietnam are going to be quite kind to my wallet.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 23/09/2026

My first beer in Vietnam is Pasteur Street’s Bia Chanh Muôi, a 2.5% ABV stunner with lime and salt that might be my new favorite beer of the trip so far.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 22/09/2026

It’s what I’m here for! In De Wildeman and Proeflokaal Arendsnest in Amsterdam, Kompaan in The Hague, Vet & Lazy and Pilgrim in Rotterdam, and go to Tilburg to visit La Trappe and LOC for two totally different brewery experiences!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 22/09/2026

I refuse to let my last beer in Thailand be an oxidized Weihenstephan Weizen.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

My dinner entree cost less than half the price of the cheapest draft beer here. Amazing.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

For a country where most things are cheap, beer in Thailand is ridiculously expensive. Just paid $10.81 for a goblet of locally brewed IPA. I know there are reasons, but I’m just astounded that I’ve run up a $20 bar tab already after a $4 taxi ride to the bar.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

I might have to come back here to buy a t-shirt before I leave.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

I always say “the beer world is flat.” This could be a brewery anywhere in the world. Patio seating, stainless vessels in view, TVs showing sports, a food cart parked outside, a free popcorn machine… can’t fault a formula that works!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

Lol, now everyone is introducing themselves to me because they saw my IG story from the brewery and say I’m a “beer celebrity” (their words, not mine). The beer is pretty damn great too.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

Nearly had another strikeout, because the brewery was not officially open for the day yet (despite an IG post saying they were open regular hours), but the staff took pity on me and let me stick around.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

This has happened to me more times than I can count. This time it was because there are local elections in Nonthaburi Province today. I did get to peek into the brewery, though!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 20/09/2026

When they write my biography, it’ll be titled “Trekking Two Hours Across a Foreign City to Visit a Brewery That’s Unexpectedly Closed: The Chris O’Leary Story”

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 18/09/2026

Weirdly, this Untappd badge looks a lot like my travel plans for the next 12 days.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 17/09/2026

Welp, it took until my final day, but I finally had a technically flawed craft beer in Korea. They can’t all be winners.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

Actually, it appears most of the check-ins are from a beer festival in Oslo last weekend, so perhaps it’s the Norwegians that are the problem — or the beer didn’t travel well.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

I don’t use Untappd outside of when I travel so I can use it as a reference tool later, but good lord, Koreans must not like Brettanomyces, because this beer was an absolute delight.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

Did I mention the brewery’s logo is a man on his hands and knees puking? You’d have to pay *me* to wear that cap in public.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

I’m still thinking about the brewery in Seoul that’s charging $88 for an embroidered ball cap with their logo on it. I thought it was a misprint on their mobile ordering page, but then I saw it in their display case for ₩120,000 and my jaw dropped.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

Quite! I’m enjoying a soju barrel-aged lager right now.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

There are whole bunch of Seoul-only beers brewed here! In fact, the only one of their flagships on tap here is Goose IPA.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 16/09/2026

South Korea is now the fourth country where I’ve visited a Goose Island Brewhouse. A-B turned the little Chicago brand into a global craft beer presence. And this is not even the only country where I’ll visit one on this trip. More on that in about two and a half weeks…

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 15/09/2026

As seems to happen anytime I travel internationally, I came across a collaboration beer with a New York City brewery in the wild. This time, it’s Seoul Brewery and Finback Brewery’s Vertical City Hazy IPA.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 14/09/2026

I’m not sure if it’s required, but I did because I was hungry.

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 13/09/2026

Catching a game on Wednesday at Jamsil! Super stoked. Appreciate all the recommendations. Already off to a good start and I’ve only been here for four hours!

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Brew York 🗽🚖🌃🏳️‍🌈🍺🇺🇦 @brewyork.beer · 13/09/2026

I may be painfully jet-lagged after 21 hours of travel, but that won’t stop me from getting my first beer in Seoul tonight.

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