Ice-Cold Beer pours from a 1910 Peranakan shophouse at 9 Emerald Hill Road, fifty metres up the lane from Orchard Road. The name is the entire mission statement, and the bar has spent more than two decades making good on it.
The trick is the ice tanks built into the bar itself, where the bottles sit buried in crushed ice until the moment you order. The house counts more than 60 bottled and draught beers across the list, per the bar's own site, and The Best Singapore calls it one of the oldest beer bars in the city.
Google Maps holds it at 4.4 from more than 1,350 reviews. Hours run 3pm to 2am for most of the week, stretch to 3am on Friday and Saturday, and start at 2pm on weekends, which makes the veranda a legitimate afternoon option.
The room is dark timber floors, decades of beer memorabilia, and a front terrace that catches whatever breeze Emerald Hill offers. Upstairs, the attached Stellar Bar adds pool tables and its own draught lineup. Darts get a corner downstairs, and the lane outside belongs to a small cluster of conserved shophouse bars.
It earns its slot on our list of sports bars in Singapore as the drinks first pick, the room you start in before a kickoff or settle into after the final whistle. For screen count and noise, the Boat Quay rooms and Muddy Murphy's down Orchard Road carry the match itself.
It suits beer collectors working through the list, the after work Orchard crowd, and anyone who wants a conserved shophouse over a mall unit. Our Singapore bar guide covers the rest of the island, and our Singapore hidden gems list maps more rooms like this one.
Go on a weeknight at 6pm for a veranda seat and the first pick of the tanks. Saturday afternoons reward the 2pm open, when the lane is quiet and the beer is at its coldest.
Emerald Hill itself is half the reason to come. The lane is a conservation row of early 1900s Peranakan terraces, all pastel shutters and carved doors, and it turns from shopping cut through to bar street in the space of a hundred metres. Drinking here feels like being let in on an older Singapore that the malls paved over everywhere else.
The ice tank detail matters more than it sounds. In a city that sits at 31 degrees most afternoons, a bottle pulled from crushed ice drinks differently from one out of a standard fridge, and the bar has built a twenty year reputation on that single degree of difference. The name was never marketing.
What to order
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A bottle from the ice tank
Pick something you have never tried; the list runs past 60.
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A draught upstairs at Stellar
Pool tables and a quieter pour on the second floor.
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Bar bites for the table
Built to keep a long session honest.
Sources
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Ice-Cold Beer — official site
Beer list, ice tanks and hours.
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The Best Singapore — review
History and the shophouse setting.
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Tripadvisor — Ice-Cold Beer
Guest reviews through 2026.
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Yelp — Ice Cold Beer
Photos and current listing, June 2026.
