Collabrewnation, the two-day launch event of the new District Brewing Company, offers a unique opportunity to enjoy seven collaborative craft beers made with brewers from around Asia
The District Brewing Company is officially launching its new brewpub in the Greenfield District of Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, with Collabrewnation, a two-day craft beer festival designed to showcase a series of collaborative brews with brewing partners from across Asia. Taking place on the 26-27th February, the event offers festival-goers eight distinctive beers, seven of which were brewed in partnership with local and other Asian craft breweries, and one developed with a specialty coffee brand.
The new brewpub has been opened up by Jun Flores, the popular local brewer behind the well known brewpubs El Deposito and CubaoX Brewing Company.
The festival brings together brewing talent from across the region to create original brews with the District Brewing Company team. Among the offerings is CalamanSeoul Sour NEIPA (6% ABV) made with South Korea’s The Ranch Brewing: a hazy, double-yeast creation infused with sundried calamansi for a tart citrus profile.
The Ranch Brewing, founded in Daejeon and now with a Seoul pub, is already known to Manila craft enthusiasts having previously partnered on brews with Boondocks Brewery. However, newcomers to the Manila scene include breweries from Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore.
Vietnam’s Steersman Brewery contribution is Coconut Silk Haze NEIPA (6% ABV), leveraging local coconut to craft a soft, tropical haze with a pronounced sweet-coconut finish.
Singapore’s 1925 Brewing Co offering is Tropica-lah Fruited Lager (5% ABV), marrying guava and mango in a crisp, refreshing pour that underscores consumer appetite for fruit-forward lagers in tropical markets.
Thailand’s Sandport Brewing Company has produced an Extra Rice Cold IPA (5.5% ABV), adding jasmine rice to a cold IPA base to introduce delicate grain nuances to an intensely hopped profile.
Metro Manila’s own Treeline Ales is offering Hop Beneath The Trees West Coast IPA (6.2% ABV), a classic interpretation with bold fruit and firm bitterness that should resonate with IPA purists.
Palm Tree Abbey, another local Manila microbrewery, contributed All Hail the Hopfenmeister (6.6% ABV), a hop-accentuated German-style wheat beer that illustrates European influences in local brewing.
Not confined to beer brewers alone, District Brewing also collaborated with The Brewman, a coffee shop from the trendy Cubao Expo district of Manila, on a Murasakhi Coffee Stout (6% ABV) using cold brew and blueberries to bridge coffee and craft beer culture.
District Brewing’s sister brewery El Deposito is also offering an original brew for the festival. Fruit After Midnight Smoothie Sour (5.5% ABV) is a fruit puree-infused sour that blurs lines between beer and dessert-like refreshment.
For attendees on the Friday evening, the event also features a curated five-course pairing dinner.
