I decided that this post will be more about the pictures telling the story. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this is going to be one heck of a long post. Tks Moehadi for the brilliant pics below as well as IPA and Conkerwood stouts.
All in all, a well attended and fun event with lots of good company and beer. We event tried some home made wine as well as Moe’s ice wine which was a tad sweet for me but the missus would have enjoyed it. The only let down was the food – too little variety and lots of it ran out half way thru the event. Good thing there were some gourmet sausages thrown on the barbie to make up the for the slack.
Well done to Raymond and his team plus lots of volunteers and tireless homebrew fans for making this event possible. Looking forward to next year’s. I think a good idea would be to have the Coopers starter kits for sale as the event so sideline and couch brewers can get into the action without any excuses of ‘I dunno where to get one’.
It finally happened
Raymond Lee, owner of iBrew and organiser of iBrew Challenge
Where the magic gets dispensed - the beer tent. I love Moehadi's Conkerwood stout and IPA. And then there was the IPA from Tap 1 which I also adored.
Great weather - slightly overcast. Not too warm.
Fal Allen (left) of Archipelago Brewery talked about ‘Craft Beer in Asia’
Beer drinking challenge - Andre (right) sucking it down. No, his team didn't win.
Neither did my team but the speed chug left big wet beer stains on my 'To The Pub' tee shirt. What's more important is we made new friends - Tian Peng (right). Andre - what's our friend's name, the one wearing the same T-shirt as you?'Beer is the Answer. Now what was the question?'
Women beer lovers in solidarity with their male beer drinking competition team mates
...and our fairer sex were chugging it down as fast as any man there...
... and chugging it down some more...
Homebrew entries submitted for judging
Judges including Ernest Ng from RedDot BrewHouse (left) doing their thing. Ernest earlier gave a talk on brewing Weizen
Who wants more beer? ME!
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