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about the Singapore craft beer scene from her Top left: The
General’s Room
parents, a change she didn’t expect but was WARPIGS Top right: Warpigs has
very proud of. the two biggest smokers in
The first year at Warpigs was very tough Europe that can smoke up
to 2 tons of meat a day.
for the young brewers. Kyle and Lan-Xin The Magic of this Collaboration
would work 10 hours a day, seven days a week LAN-XIN’S
to keep up with the demands in the brewpub. Mikkel would treat the brewing team like an R&D RECOMMENDED
That took a toll on the relationship side of lab. When he has an idea of a recipe, he’d send FOOD AND BEER
things but Lan-Xin was very grateful for an it to the team to let them experiment with it. Then PAIRING IN
understanding partner who still stands by her he’d be on top of the tasting and tweak the recipe WARPIGS
side today. until he is satisfied with the result. Recently, there CHICKEN WINGS
is a global trend following the hazy New England
WORK CULTURE style beer and Mikkel wanted to have a go at Head Chef Andrew
Lan-Xin thinks that people in Mikkeller work it. It took the 4th tweak to refine the recipe to Hroza marinates the
very hard and that’s the work culture. It’s a his satisfaction. That’s how inspiring it is to the buffalo wings and
fast growing company and she suspects her people who work for the brand. “It’s refreshing to freezes them before
boss, Mikkel doesn’t actually sleep because know that even after 10 years in this business, he deep frying them
she’d get emails from him at 5am in the still has that flame.” and then freezes
morning. “This guy has a family and a big Beer Styles
business in many countries. It gives you that Warpigs has a reputation for very experimental them again. They are
motivation when you see a boss who cares. brews that use ingredients that no one else will deep fried again right
The Three Floyds guys visit 2-3 times a year use. One of them is the Beetroot Liquorice IPA before serving with
and are one of few American companies that recognised by its pink colour. It is said that the house blue cheese
let employees have 4-5 weeks’ vacation.” Scandinavians are obsessed with liquorice and dressing. The slightly
She would feel bad to take that amount having it with beetroot is normal. Not so much for smoked mini drumlets
of time off, even though she has left over the Singaporean, yaiks! are then divided from
vacations because there are only 3 of them Favourite Beer in Warpigs the wings which are
in the brewing team. For one person to take Lazurite half IPA 7.4% ABV – Though not her used to make soup.
off, the other 2 will have to cover, which favourite style, this is something Lan-Xin would
means a bigger workload and longer hours. drink in between or back and forth with another PAIR WITH
The others would feel the same and there beer, such as a sour. The light pale colour ale is Power Move Session
is a sense of treating your co-workers like dry, citrusy and packed with hops. IPA with flaked oats
family members. for body, 5% ABV.

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