Flow Brewing

Flow Brewing (in Chinese, Xin Liu Niang Zao) was founded in 2023 by Joe Merrell and Tyler Rubin, friends who spent years sharing and debating beer from Taiwan's best breweries, international names and their own home brews before launching. Its motto is "great friends making great beer in a great place". Untappd lists Flow as a nanobrewery in Xinyi, and a 2025 Business Today report on Tsai's Brewing in Caotun, Nantou, named Flow among the brands that use its contract brewing service. The focus is hop-forward: hazy IPAs, double and triple IPAs, plus a few dark and red beers.

The beers

• Swell, hazy double IPA, 8%
• Galactic Overflow, hazy double IPA, 8%
• Anna, hazy IPA, 7%
• Clarity, American IPA, 7.5%
• Omega, imperial stout, 10.5%

Releases rotate quickly, with newer beers such as Ripple, a hazy IPA, and Deep Chill, a lighter beach beer. Four-packs of cans are sold at the taproom and online.

Where to drink it

The Flow Brewing Beer Taproom is at No. 38, Jiaxing Street in Xinyi and is closed on Mondays. Flow is also on tap at Learn Bar and Beer Rush Taproom in Taipei, and at Piao-Lounge in Tainan. All of these are listed below.