The inaugural Asia Beer Awards 2008 is open to all Singapore commercial breweries. Entries from other countries will be accepted for the 2009 awards from 1st Novemeber 2008.
- Entry:
- Open to all professional breweries – each brewery may enter no more than 6 beers
- Open to select non-professional brewers (winners in each category of the iBrew challenge)
- Categories:
- Ale (Light & Dark)
- Lager (Light & Dark)
- Wheat Beer
- Other Beers (this category for beers that are generally outside of normal style parameters)
- Judging:
There will be 3 rounds as follows (categories with less than 6 beers will start at Round 2):- Round 1: Within the category, preliminary (beer will be judged to style). Three will be passed on to Round TWO
- Round 2: Within the category (beer will be judged against each other) – Warded first place and runner up
- Round 3: Top two beers from each category will be judged by style and against each other. Three winners – Best of show, First runner up, second runner up
- Judges:
Judges will be selected by the competition committee. They will be from the ranks of professional brewers, home brewers, beer aficionados and celebrity guest judges. No brewer will be allowed to judge in a category in which they have entered beers. - Awards
- Grand (3): 1) Best of Show, 2) First runner up, 3) Second runner up
- Winner of each category: 1) Ale, 2) Lager, 3) Wheat Beer, 4) Other
BREWERIES & ENTRIES
- Archiplego - 4 (1A, 1L, 1W, 1O) - pending
- Beer Station - 2 (2 L)
- Brewerkz - 5 (2A, 2L, 1W)
- RedDot - 3 (2A, 1L, 1W)
- Paulaner - 3 (2L, 1W)
- Pump Room - 4 (2A, 1L, 1W)
- Home Brews - 5 (2A, 2L, 1O)
- Total (26)
CATEGORIES
The categories (totaling 6) - estimated break out:
- Ale
- Light - 8 entries
- Dark - 2 entries
- Lager
- Light - 8 entries
- Dark - 2 entries
- Wheat beer - 6 entries
- Other (beers that are generally outside normal style parameters) - 2 entries
JUDGES
- Scott Kerkmans (4 Points Sheraton Chief Beer Officer)
- Fal Allen (Archipelago)
- Alex Chasko (The PumpRoom)
- Michael Chuah (Brauhaus Rest. & Pub United Square)
- Raymond Lee (iBrew)
- Ernest Ng (RedDot)
- Scott Robertson (Brewerkz)
- Alex Buchner (Paulaner)
- Vir Sanghvi (Hindustan Times)
JUDGES PROFILES
SCOTT KERKMANS
CHIEF BEER OFFICER
FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON
- First-ever Chief Beer Officer (CBO) for Four Points by Sheraton
- Kerkmans beat out over 7,500 applicants from more than 30 countries for the coveted post
- Brand ambassador for the Four Points Best Brews program
- Former Beer Director of DRAFT, a lifestyle magazine focused on beer and culture
- A certified beer judge
Scott Kerkmans is the world's first-ever Chief Beer Officer (CBO) for Four Points by Sheraton. After kicking off his reign by ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange this year, he quickly got to work enhancing the brand's Best Brews program. The program highlights local craft beers with selections varying from Four Points property to property, ensuring that guests have the opportunity to experience the best of local and international brews.
Kerkmans earned the coveted position at the boardroom table by impressing the Four Points executive team with his passion and expertise in the beer industry. The team sorted through 7,500 initial applicants from around the world and narrowed it down to a select favourite four. The four finalists submitted video applications and were then flown to Four Points' corporate offices in New York to interview with the brand's executive team. However, to determine the best person for the position, Four Points turned to the beer-drinking public for assistance by posting all four videos online where people could vote for their favorite aficionado. Kerkmans walked away with more than half of the votes and the groundbreaking new title. Kerkmans' winning video application can still be seen at www.fourpoints.com/cbo.
A graduate of the University of New Mexico with bachelor of business administration and entrepreneurial studies, and a true love of beer. Kerkmans’ passion for the frothy libation started the night his brother gave him a home brewing kit and has continued ever since. His dedication to suds doesn’t stop with his CBO position, he also earned his beer judge certification from the Alaskan Brewing Company and , this CBO is truly submersed in the way of the draught.
FAL ALLEN
BREWMASTER
ARCHIPELAGO BREWING COMPANY
Fal
Allen is the Brewmaster for Archipelago Brewery
Co. In this role, Fal is responsible for the
development and production of all the Archipelago
beers and is the brand ambassador for the brewery.
Prior to joining Archipelago Brewing, Fal worked as the General Manager and Head of Production at Anderson Valley Brewing in Northern California.
Fal Allen started brewing professionally in 1988 for Red Hook Brewery in Seattle. In 1990 he moved on to Pike Place brewery where he was the head brewer for 8 years. With 20 years of experience in various breweries, Fal is a veteran in the brewing business. He has spoken on a range of subjects from cask conditioned beers to QA/QC procedures at both national and international conferences. In 1998 he won the Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation and Achievement in Craft Brewing.
Fal's writing credits include co-authoring the Brewer’s Association’s guide book on Barley Wine, a four part series on Microbiology and lab procedures, and more than 40 articles in other periodicals including American Brewer, The New Brewer, Zymurgy, Master Brewer’s Technical Quarterly, The Celebrator, The Malt Advocate, The Scandinavian Brewer’s Review and The Washington Law Review.
Fal holds degrees from both the University of Hawaii, and the Seibel Institute of Brewing Technology.
SCOTT ROBERTSON
BREWMASTER
BREWEKZ
With more than ten years of microbrewery experience, Scott is widely known among the Canadian and Southeast Asian Media for his professional excellence. Prior to moving to Singapore, he was the head brewer for his
family's microbrewery restaurant in Canada and was a consultant to Brewing Technology for the opening of several microbreweries in Japan.
Scott holds a BS (Hon) in Physics from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and an MS in Medical Physics from the University of Alberta. Under Scott's leadership, Brewerkz has won numerous awards, including:
Australian International Awards 2008
- Silver Award for Golden Ale
- Silver Award for Pilsner
- Silver Award for Darkside Lager
- Silver Award for Oatmeal Stout
- Bronze Award for Olde Ale
- Silver Award for Hopback Ale
- Bronze Award for Xtra India Pale Ale (XIPA)
- Bronze Award for India Pale Ale (IPA)
Australian International Awards 2007
- Gold Award and Best In Category for Hopback Ale
- Silver Award for IPA
- Silver Award for XIPA
World Beer Cup 2004
- Gold Award In Category for English Style India Pale Ale
VIR SANGHVI
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Vir Sanghvi is probably the best-known Indian journalist of his
generation and is currently the Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times.
Sanghvi was raised in Bombay and London and educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and Mill Hill School, London. He won an open scholarship to read politics, philosophy and economics at Brasenose College, Oxford.
His journalistic career began in his gap year before Oxford when he began contributing to India Today. He continued writing for the magazine during his vacations and in 1978, the publishers of India Today asked him to start Bombay, India’s first city magazine. At that stage, Sanghvi was 22 years old making him the youngest editor in the history of Indian journalism.
In 1982, he returned to India as editorial director of Business Press, India’s largest publisher of trade magazines. While at Business Press, he revamped and reformatted Imprint, one of India’s oldest magazines and turned it into a leading features magazine of the 1980s.
In 1986, he was appointed editor of Sunday, a newsmagazine launched by the ABP group. By 1989, Sunday had become India’s largest-selling weekly newsmagazine.
In 1994, Sanghvi became consulting editor of the ABP group, whose portfolio included -- other than magazines like Sunday and Businessworld -- the two largest papers in eastern India, The Telegraph in English and Ananda Bazar Patrika in Bengali.
In 1999, he became editor of the Hindustan Times, the largest-selling English newspaper in Delhi and, over the next two years, launched new editions in Chandigarh, Calcutta, Ranchi, Bhopal and other north Indian cities.
At the end of 2003, Sanghvi was appointed editorial director of HT Media Limited, the holding company of Hindustan Times, and it was in this capacity that he launched the paper’s stunningly successful Bombay edition in July 2005.
His column, Counterpoint, which he began in Sunday, now appears in the Sunday Hindustan Times, and is possibly the most influential political column in the country. He also writes Pursuits -- a column that appears in the weekend section of Mint, the business paper brought out by HT Media.
These apart, Sanghvi is a foodie, writing the inimitable -- and hugely popular -- Rude Food column in Brunch, Hindustan Times' Sunday magazine. A collection of these columns was published by Penguin in 2004 (Rude Food). The book won the international food world’s equivalent of the Oscar -- the Cointreau Award for Best Food Literature Book in the world the following year. Alongside, Sanghvi also won the Best Food Critic award from the Indian Culinary Foundation. He did a television version of Rude Food for the Discovery Travel & Living channel.
Sanghvi is a television star as well. His TV career began in 1994 on Doordarshan, the state-owned broadcaster. Starting 1996, he hosted a number of programmes for the STAR Network. Among his successes are shows like A Question of Answers, Cover Story and Star Talk. In 2006-07, he anchored two shows for NDTV, India's leading English news channel -- Face the Music and One on One. He has won innumerable TV awards for his presenting skills at many national and international forums including the Asian Television Awards in Singapore.
In 1993, Sanghvi was named a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum in Davos and he is a member of several important advisory bodies attached to the Indian government, including the prestigious National Integration Council.
His published books include Rude Food, India – Then and Now and Men of Steel (a collection of profiles of India’s leading businessmen).
MICHAEL CHUA
OWNER
BRAUHAUS RESTAURANT & PUB
Michael Chuah, born in 23 November 1959 is the Owner cum Chef of Brauhaus Restaurant & Pub. Mr Chuah studied the German culinary arts in Japan and is a beer aficionado. He came back from Japan and launched Brauhaus in 1989 which was the first German restaurant & pub to open in Singapore. It is considered by beer aficionados as being the most widely stocked bar in Asia with more than 150 brands of beer from approx 27 countries.
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