Locally made craft beer is now much in demand at bars across Mumbai. Hipcask, a mobile app that specialises in alcohol-related deals and guides has capitalised on the craze with the launch of their Beer Passport, a discount card that entitles you to ten artisanal brews at the special price of Rs150 per pint (on average the price of a pint ranges between Rs220 and Rs300). The Beer Passport, which is priced at Rs1,500 per person, can be used to order beers made by Andheri microbrewery Brewbot, Lower Parel brewpubs The Barking Deer and The White Owl and craft beer suppliers Gateway Brewing Co. at this price at select bars and restaurants across the city.
The spots that will accept your Beer Passport are Brewbot; The Barking Deer; The White Owl; British Brewing Co. that has branches in Vashi and Lower Parel; Zenzibu Da Sky Lounge in Vashi; Mia Cucina, the Italian restaurant in Powai; and The Irish House chain of pubs that has branches in Andheri West, Bandra West, Kala Ghoda, Kurla, Lower Parel and Malad. This is the second edition of the Passport, which Hipcask launch in December 2015. They released 150 passports in the first instalment and have increased the number to 500 for the current round. Passport holders only need to check in at the bar via the Hipcask app in order to claim their beers – Hipcask has an internal point of sale system with partnering bars that allows them to keep tabs on the number of beers a customer has ordered. Once you exhaust all ten beers on a passport, you can renew it before Wednesday, August 31, that is, provided all 500 passports haven’t been sold by then.
Two lucky readers can win a Beer Passport each courtesy of Hipcask. For a chance to win, here’s what you need to do:
– Sign up for The Daily Pao newsletter by entering your email address in the subscription box on any page of the site. If you’re already a subscriber, you don’t need to sign up.
– Email your name, area of residence and telephone number to contests@dailypao.com with ‘Hipcask Beer Passport’ in the subject line.
The contest is only open to readers in Mumbai and will close at midnight on Wednesday, June 15. The winner will be chosen via a blind raffle and be notified via email.
To purchase a Beer Passport, download the Hipcask app for Android here and for iPhone here. See here for more information on the passports.