Big news for craft beer lovers and fans of sky-high dining – one Singapore bar recently made it into the Guinness World Records as the world’s highest urban microbrewery. Rising 149 metres above sea level on the 33rd floor of Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 1, Level33 is officially in the record books for achieving the feat of brewing beer at the highest altitude within a building.
If you’re thinking: “that’s oddly specific and awfully man-made”, it’s because it is. In land-and-resource-scarce Singapore, we’re often left to our own devices to stand out among the crowd. And having a couple of Guinness World Records under our belt certainly helps. Our tiny city holds plenty of quirky titles – from the Flower Dome being the world’s largest glass greenhouse, to the Helix Bridge being the largest double-helix bridge in the world. Pretty impressive if you think about it.
Level33 has been a favourite since 2010 for its crisp pints and unbeatable views of the city’s skyline from the 33rd floor. But getting those 12 brewing tanks up there wasn’t easy. According to founder Martin Bem, hauling the heavy equipment all the way up was a huge engineering feat. Since the beer tanks couldn’t fit in the lift, they eventually craned it up, even dismantling part of the building’s facade at one point. Talk about commitment to the…craft.
Since then, Level33 has brewed over a million litres of beer, from fruity blonde lagers and a house porter to banana-scented wheat beer. The restaurant-bar also boasts a beer-focused food menu which incorporates by-products from the brewery into its dishes.
The official Guinness World Records plaque will be unveiled at a ceremony at Level33 on March 12, after an arduous few months of getting the necessary paperwork and site inspections done to qualify for the award.
This record-setting moment isn’t just a win for the bar, but also for our buzzing craft beer scene. So the next time you raise a glass at Level33, know that you’re toasting at what’s officially the highest microbrewery in the world – cheers to that.
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