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...Chinese government released a list of 10 of last year's most egregious food-safety cases-everything from selling homemade beer in brand-name bottles to making edible gelatin from OLD LEATHER. The top spot went to a firm in Jiangsu province busted for adulterating its nationally sold nutritional supplement, supposedly made from silkworm chrysalis. The real ingredients? Dried pig's blood and chicken feathers...
...brewmaster of Singapore's Archipelago Brewery, archipelagobrewery.com, Allen is tasked with identifying which Asian herbs and spices can be added to beer to help the beverage complement the region's fiery cuisines. "Beer's effervescence and carbonation cleanse palates better than wine," Allen says. With the addition of new natural flavors, the theory goes, beer-and-food pairings will be even more pleasing...
When Fal Allen expresses a fondness for beer, he doesn't just mean sipping suds in an air-conditioned bar with other members of Singapore's expatriate community. Instead, the 46-year-old American has the kind of passion that drives a man to try unexpected paths-in his case, the ones that lead to the Lion City's stiflingly hot open-air markets, where he sniffs handfuls of potent spices and quizzes stallholders on the flavors they yield. His mission? To find Asian beer's next big ingredient...
...have been big business in the U.S. and Europe for some time, drawing on centuries-old brewing traditions and targeting legions of aficionados. But microbrewing is still virtually nonexistent in Asia, where the market is dominated by mass-produced lagers. "Part of this job is not just to brew beers but also to educate," says Andrea Teo, Archipelago's managing director. "There was a survey here and Singaporeans associate beer with four words: 'fresh,' 'cold,' 'local' and 'imported...
...years, its output shrank to just one product, ABC Stout. Teo's epiphany came about while staring at the word Archipelago on an ABC Stout label during a promotional event. "I thought, what a great name: Archipelago somehow resonated with spices and islands ... What if we make a spiced beer with indigenous local spices?" She further reckoned that Singaporeans-often affluent and adventurous diners-could be persuaded to pay a few dollars extra for a novel-tasting designer tipple...