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20 taps in
Wapigs on
rotation.
LAN-XIN’S RASPBERRY & CREAM
The only place to source home-brewing
equipment and ingredients in Singapore was For the competition, Lan-Xin chose to brew
iBrew, where owner Raymond Lee offered a cream ale because she felt that it was a
Lan-Xin the use of his brewing equipment and misunderstood style and wanted to present
ingredients for experiments while she helped her version of it. She created the ale with
out in his shop. As her desire to learn to brew taste that’s right up her alley - low alcohol,
professionally grew, she enrolled herself at dry, easy going, but interesting. She then
VLB in Berlin. fermented the beer a second time with real
While in Singapore, Lan-Xin met Sandra raspberry fruit in 2 ways: one just with
who then moved to Berlin with her during her raspberries and the other to mimic barrel-
study there. During a vacation to Copenhagen aged beer using oak chips that contributed to
where Sandra had previously lived for 10 the creamy vanilla flavour. The one with oak
years, Lan-Xin went to the original Mikkeller chips stood out and the deal for the winning
bar where a friend of Sandra’s worked. beer was 5000 litres would be brewed, kegged
“Sh*t, I have to work here!” was Lan-Xin’s and bottled. That beer made Lan-Xin a star in
expression after a drink at the bar. Around the the homebrew community and news travelled
same time, Mikkeller & Friends was opened back home, with friends and family wanting
and Lan-Xin took the chance and applied for to get their hands on a bottle. Some even flew
a job as a bartender there. In 2013, they moved to Copenhagen to try that winning beer when
to Copenhagen. it was kegged in 2016.
By 2015, Warpigs was opening and Lan-
Xin asked to be transferred there. Using her FAMILY
brewing experience and certificate from Naturally, she told her parents about the new
the school, she applied for the position as position. “My mum had a bigger reaction.
Assistant Brewer. When they gave her the She thought I was going to be a hard-core
job, Sandra thought one of the reasons must alcoholic working in a brewery! I had to
be because Lan-Xin had proved herself in the explain to her that I taste the beer I brew but
staff home brew competition while she was in I don’t drink everyday or stay back at work
Mikkeller & Friends. to drink.” Now, Lan-Xin would hear news

LAN-XIN’S RECOMMENDED BARS FOR ANYONE VISITING COPENHAGEN:

WARPIGS FOR BEER BARKING DOG FOR COCKTAILS KIHOSKH FOR BOTTLE

Flæsketorvet 25, Sankt Hans Gade 19, SELECTION PROVISION SHOP
1711 København V, Denmark 2200 København N, Denmark Sønder Blvd. 53,

warpigs.dk thebarkingdog.dk 1720 København V, Denmark
kihoskh.dk

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