PaperKite Brewing Co (PaperKite), a Malaysian craft beer brewery, lately introduced dwelling two medals at this 12 months’s annual World Beer Awards that was held in London, England.
In accordance with its press launch, this might make it the primary Malaysian craft beer to win within the worldwide competitors’s historical past.
Based in 2022, PaperKite contains a small staff of simply 5 members. Earlier this 12 months, the brewery additionally gained at Beerfest Asia 2023’s Asia Beer Awards, the place its Pale Ale took dwelling a bronze.
Crowning the very best beers on the earth
To partake within the competitors, breweries worldwide submit their beers for the World Beer Awards three weeks earlier than the award ceremony.
Alvin Lim, self-dubbed “keg washer” and founding father of PaperKite, advised Vulcan Submit that their beers had been despatched by way of an in a single day courier service.
Afterwards, every beer entry shall be blind-tasted and assessed primarily based on their look, aroma, style, and alcohol by quantity.
That is completed by a panel of 60 worldwide judges, every an trade knowledgeable in their very own proper, together with Adrian Tierney-Jones, the World Chair of Judges who can be a famend journalist and beer taster. A gold medal is conferred to people who obtain excessive score factors throughout all classes.
PaperKite’s signature Copper Ale is one beer that was awarded the gold medal underneath the “Bitter 4.5 to five.5%” class.
Alvin defined that the Copper Ale is brewed to the model of an English bitter beer, “with a malty, slight roast and a well-balanced end”.
This locations it within the working for the coveted title of the “World’s Greatest Beer”, which is the subsequent stage of the competitors. The very best rated beers go up in opposition to one another for a spot on the prime of their respective classes.
Based mostly on the World Beer Awards’ Instagram web page, the winners for this shall be revealed on August 24, 2023 (3PM, GMT).
As for its second medal, PaperKite’s Pale Ale took dwelling a silver medal underneath the “Pale Ale” class. Alvin described it as “a simple ingesting ale that anybody can devour due to its citrus aroma with a pleasant citrus and light-weight hoppy end”.
Bettering the native craft beer scene
Talking on their newest achievement on the World Beer Award, Alvin mentioned, “We’re extremely proud and shocked to take dwelling two medals with us after placing in a lot onerous work into making our ardour and goals come true as a startup.”
For context, Alvin has been within the native craft beer scene for over a decade and performed a pioneering position as a founding father of considered one of Malaysia’s oldest craft beer bars referred to as Faucets Beer Bar. He was additionally the co-founder of Mybeer Malaysia, a craft beer distributor.
Throughout an interview with us, he additional reiterated the importance of the award.
He expressed, “Profitable this award implies that our beer is up there with different international craft beer makers. We hope that this recognition will proceed to develop our budding native craft beer neighborhood and enhance the notice of our beer around the globe.”
“Our intention was at all times to make beer with native flavours from the start, and this award provides us the push we wanted to present folks the arrogance that we’re making world-class brews.”
Finally, he expressed that the staff’s aim is to make the native craft beer scene extra thrilling, which they hope will in flip deliver extra folks to attempt craft beer and put Malaysia on the world map.
Though PaperKite’s drinks are solely obtainable at Faucet Room in Bamboo Hills, KL, Alvin shared that the the staff is planning to hit the street on a mini celebratory tour quickly.
There may also be an upcoming takeover of Backdoor Bodega in Penang on August 27, and future takeovers in Ipoh and KL are within the works.
- Be taught extra about PaperKite Brewing Co right here.
- Learn articles we’ve written about Malaysian startups right here.
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