The 1925 Brewing Co.

The 1925 Brewing Co. was founded in November 2013 as The 1925 Microbrewery & Restaurant by three members of the Yeo family: brothers Ivan and Eng Kuang Yeo and their uncle, Yeo King Joey. It began trading in May 2014 from a Jalan Besar shophouse, with four 600-litre tanks behind the bar. The name is the birth year of the founders' grandfather, Yeo Kim Ho, a dry goods grocer, and many of the beers are named after family stories. The business took its current name in 2016, and in 2018 it moved brewing to a larger production brewery in the Mandai Foodlink building. It set up a distribution company, 9 Degrees Beer, to supply hotels, restaurants and bars. The brewery designs its beers to go with Asian food. XiaoHei Black IPA won Best IPA at the Great Singapore Brew Off 2017, and God's Gift, a chai tea ale, was overall winner at the 2017 Tea Inspired Awards.

The beers

• Yellow Van, pale ale, 4.8%
• BLK 622, dark ale
• Liang Teh Lager, lager with white chrysanthemum, 4.8%
• Small Monster, session IPA, 4.8%
• Small Monster Coffee, coffee session IPA, 4.8%
• Kaya Toast Stout, stout brewed with surplus bread, 5.2%

Yellow Van is named after the grandfather's yellow delivery van, and BLK 622 after the block where the grandparents lived. Kaya Toast Stout is a collaboration with Crust, brewed with surplus bread. Small-batch and fruited beers rotate through the year, including a Musang King durian ale, Guava Sour Plum and Pandan Chinchow in 2026. The core range is sold in 330ml bottles through the brewery's online store.

Where to drink it

The full range is poured at Blue Smoke, the family's Asian smokehouse and taproom at 66 Horne Road in Lavender. The Mandai brewery is closed to the public apart from booked tours. On guest taps, 2026 check-ins put 1925 beers at SG Taps on Duxton Hill, Drunk N Jump at Robertson Quay, and both Bellies Craft Beer and LeChloe04 in Fortune Centre. You will also find them at Taps N Timber at The Rail Mall, Get Some in Clementi, and the Springside and Punggol branches of Daruma Tavern. All of these are listed below.