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rice and sorghum as part of our grist. e funny thing about being a ‘brewer’ is that after a while you reach a point where you don’t actually brew, and our collab ‘brews’ are more quick picture opportunities followed by a few pints debating beer and brewing with the hosts. With Crystalla’s assistant brewers doing the hard work, we sit down to soak up more Singaporean culture – by which I mean more food. eir food is as good as their beer and I highly recommend Red Dot’s crispy pork and Szechuan pepper hot wings. As we nish up the brew (the standard “cleaning up” photo opp”), Crystalla o ers to take us out to celebrate and see more of Singapore, which of course means more food! In celebration of our collaboration we eat, drink and eat some more, this time at a local Chinese café. We learn to write out orders in Cantonese and spend most of the night chatting beer culture from our respective parts of the world. Crystalla and her family tell us more than once that eating is Singapore’s national sport, and it seems only right that a national sport should have a tting national drink. While the Singapore Sling is undoubtedly the country’s most famous beverage, it’s not something you can easily pair with food. But as the local beer culture grows from ‘lager, lager, lager’ to ‘IPA, stout, Kölsch’ and more, it seems that the Sling has a legitimate competitor, at least when it comes to dinner time. Putting the final touches to the collab recipe with the Red Dot brewing team Rules to live by at Red Dot Brewery Competing in Singapore's national sport: eating brewcra .co.za Shop online now Over the last 15 years BrewCraft Int. has developed into one the most respected brands in the home beer brewing market and supplying to our specialised brew shops throughout the world. UNLOCK A WORLD OF BEER