
Last year I did a 1 day trip to Singapore, didn’t manage to do much. This time I manage to get a brewery visit and a friend to tag a long. This make the whole trip very fun, at least got some drunk moment to share with. As usual, I’ll take the Sunday night train and arrive at Singapore on Monday early morning. We reach around 7:30am, wash up and have some simple breakfast.

Then Aditya the brew master from Jungle Beer, pick us up from Woodlands checkpoint to the brewery at Sembawang. Even before his van reach the bus stop, I already can spot his van. What a nicely painted van. Jungle Beer started their brewery in August 2011. It’s still a young brewery. My main purpose of this trip is to check out the beer (by mean drink a lot of it… haha). So Aditya have arranged the pick up, brewery visit and tasting all the available beer at the brewery.

He bring us straight up to the lounge located on the second floor while waiting for another friends to arrive to join us for the brewery visit. First stop, Adi served us his new creation Jungle Beer Dunkel Weiss. Is a very nicely made beer, nice aroma, great light roasted sweetness, nicely carbonated and of course is good for breakfast as well. Since the German have been doing this for century, a dunkel weiss for the morning breakfast will never go wrong.

Secondly, he pour us the Jungle Beer Easy English which again have some light fruit like sweetness aroma. No pungent in taste but have enough to taste its flavour. Easy going beer that I can drink all day as well.

Third one is a belgian style Jungle Beer Lah Belqigue. This beer have lots of spices, an interesting combination of flavour. Half bodied beer, with nice head and soft lingering aroma.

The fourth one is the imperial stout, Jungle Beer Kiasu Stout. Have a roasted, soy sauce hint of aroma, full bodied beer with great taste. A strong taste beer, that will take away your tiredness… nice after 8 hours of train ride.

From there, we proceed to the brewery below. Too bad, Adi did not brew on that day, if not the brewery will smell even more amazing.

Adi explain the brewing process in the brewery, as this is a microbrewery, many things have to hands on. A lot of heart and sweat are put in to create the wonderful beer. Even the bottling are done by hand, including sticking the labels and writing the best before date.

Then he bring u to my favourite place, the storage room. This room smell like fresh bake cookie. The aroma from the malts and hops linger in the room. Is really a lovely aroma. Enjoying a beer inside here is even better.

Then Adi pour us a fresh beer from the fermenter tank. You can’t get beer fresher then this. The fifth beer we tried is another of his new creation the American IPA. This beer came on the right time, with all the brewing process we heard, a glass of beer in hand will crunch away the drooling.

After that, we go up there and continue with drinking and chatting. If you ever saw this 5 guys in the picture, please don’t ever stir them for a morning beer, as they will sure do it… haha. Before we know it, is already 1pm. Really appreciated what Adi had arranged, plus the beer I’ve tasted from the brewery is a thumbs up. My favourite would be the Dunkel Weiss and American IPA, as I can drink this 2 beers all day long and maybe end with 2 glasses of Kiasu Stout.
I’ll continue the 1 Day Trip In Singapore Jan 2012 – Afternoon on next week post. Cheers for now!
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