Local craft brewers continue pushing boundaries at Korea's beer expo

““No, no. I do contract work for them,” I explained to the press booth, regarding my relationship to the newspaper you’re reading now. After some deliberations, I was in, albeit with a press pass that reads “Kevin Grabb - Director/Influencer.” Perhaps I should phone my mother and clarify that I am not, in fact, a real journalist. I was at the Korea International Beer Expo 2026 and, upon entering, it was immediately clear that this wasn't going to be as busy as years past. Granted, it was 11 a.m. — a time when no normal person would be seeking alcoholic thrills. But those in this grand hall of Coex were not merely “normal people.” We were here seeking the best Korean craft beer on offer and to get it before the aforementioned “normal people” came in like a tidal wave at 3 p.m. I immediately made a beeline for Daejeon’s The Ranch Brewing, which has an interesting new beer. It’s a Belgian ale/sake hybrid. I’d been to the brewery two months prior and seen its French owner, Fred Huyssen, cultivating his own koji, the fermentation starter for sake. He used the enzymat

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