Oktoberfest 2022: How Mumbaikars have warmed up to Indian-flavoured craft beers

Updated On: 07 October, 2022 09:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

The craft beer space in Mumbai is evolving faster than ever before. As Mumbaikars are enjoying the various flavours, brewers and restauranteurs are building on the love being shown for Indian flavours

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Oktoberfest may have ended in Munich but it has only just started in Mumbai and will continue for the rest of the month in most restaurants in the city. Interestingly, the festival which is marked by food and German beer has been through a journey in Mumbai as the city has witnessed a huge change in the craft beer drinking space in the last 10 years. It has in fact taken a life of its own leading to many breweries experimenting with Indian flavours to appeal to the palates of locals. While flavours were earlier safer options, the experiments in the last seven years have flavours ranging from fragrant floral to fruit-inspired brews that hint towards the city’s ever-evolving palate and need to try out something new.

‘Second phase of craft beer in India’

Pankil Shah, director and co-founder, Neighbourhood Hospitality Pvt. Ltd., the hospitality venture that runs Woodside Inn has been in the midst of this ongoing change in the last decade. He explains, “You can call this the second phase for craft beer in India. In the first phase of its evolution, consumers in Mumbai were still learning about the fundamental styles and varieties of craft beer. In this second phase, both breweries and consumers have opened up to trying experimental styles of craft beers.” So, when Shah says the gastropub took note of this change and has been catering to the diverse and experimental palate, we are not surprised because the initiative has been noticed personally by this writer.

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