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Craft Brews Brewhouse and Restaurant Party
Left :“24 beers in a case, 24 hours a day. Coincidence? I think not.”
Right : Barley, hops, yeast and other ingredients used in beer brewing
At the end of last year, I received from Craft Brews for their Bloggers/January/Call-it-whatever-you-want party. For those of you who have not heard of Craft Brews, they opened mid December in Mutiara Damansara behind Proton and right next to Tesco & Petronas Station.
CRAFT BREWS is the new restaurant in town and it is anything but your regular beer and grub joint. This unique new outfit introduces the long-awaited brewhouse concept to Malaysia.
The non-halal restaurant comfortably seats 45 people indoors, and an additional 88 at the outdoor terrace for those who prefer to wine and dine al fresco. The extensive menu offers a variety of mouth-watering dishes, all designed to complement your pint of beer.
CRAFT BREWS will be serving four draft and 10 bottled beer selections where two coloured beers from the Singapore-based Reddot Brewhouse will be the restaurant’s signature, premium beers. This coloured duo – the Monster Green Lager and English Ale – will be served fresh on tap.
We were served dinner but I’ll talk more about that later. Then we had a beer tasting session. Apparently I actually know the guy who conducted it, Ben, who I met last Raya at Arai’s. I’m not a beer enthusiast so to speak (I prefer hard liquor myself) but it was interesting. Look at the pic above, the green ones is Monster Green Lager (light and one of my faves) and the reddish one is English Ale (pretty strong). Beer tasting is very similar to wine tasting. Swirl a small amount in a glass to aerate it a bit then look at the colour. Here are a few tips:
- To fully taste the flavour of the beer, you have to sip in some air as you sip in the beer. Try it! it seriously tastes different than just chugging it down.
- Beers that are light in colour are usually more hoppy tasting
- Beers can have other things added in them such as orange peel,or herbs. The green beer above, their famous “Green Monster” is brewed with spirulina (but there’s no yuckky spirulina taste, I can assure you)
- Salty and Sweet stuff compliments certain beers, depending on personal preference. Food in Craft Brews are specially prepared to compliment the beer they are serving
Honey Mustard Ribs, Tex-Mex Ribs, Homemade Potato Wedges & Eggplant “Chips”
I personally like the Honey Mustard Ribs with its sweet and slightly tangy sauce. The Tex-Mex is a bit spicy but nicely marinated in spices. Both ribs are big (in the pic u can see that its almost the diameter of the plate) and tender, fall off the bone. The Potato wedges are big and coated with batter. Very nice. The Eggplant “Chips” were anything but chips. This one had an Asian taste to it. Its like eggplant fried with small shrimp, onion and a bit of chilli.
Left (pic by spinzer) : Pretty beer towers all in a row.
Right : The other bloggers/twitter-ers that were there
Our goodie bag was really unique. Its a container with a Beer pass for 1 complimentary beer (1/2 pint) and ingredients to brew beer. From top left is Coriander, Orange Peel, Barley and Brewing Yeast (which I’m told is totally different from baking yeast). Interesting yes? I’ve yet to try it tho :P Has anyone else who went tried it yet?
Anyway, thank you Craft Brews for a night of food and drinks and great company :)
CRAFT BREWS is located at G3 Podium, Ground Floor, Menara Batu Kawan, No. 1, Jalan PJU 7/6, Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. It is open daily from 12 noon till late and Happy Hours are 5pm-8pm daily. For reservations, please call 03-7722 3000. You can also catch em on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/CraftBrews) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/CraftBrews).
** some pics from joshuaongys (read his post here) and nigelais
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#twtclub at Zeta Bar
Woot! First night out clubbing for 2010 and it was with my tweeple :D
Organized by @spinzer & @meiyingt (above) #twtclub was the first tweetup for 2010. The venue was Zeta Bar, KL Hilton where we paid RM40 each to open a bottle of Black Label & Chivas + mixers.
It was my first time driving to KL Hilton and I didn’t know that the security was so strict. They moved detectors (not too sure for what) under my car and even asked me to open the boot to inspect it. Parking at KL Hilton is RM8.00 flat rate if you are a patron at any of their restaurants/club/function but you must get a coupon from the receptionist.
A few “special guests” were invited – namely the team (two people turned up) behind @Digi_telco & @StarbucksMY. They were there as individuals and not under their company. It was nice to be able to see the faces behind the twitter accounts.
The band was quite good in Zeta Bar. Can’t remember their name but the male lead was a African American guy frm US (i think), the female singers were from Thailand & Philippines, then the musicians were from South Africa and other countries. Very 1Malaysia 1World. They sang songs from PCD, Lady Gaga, etc.
There are 2 types of people who go clubbing : (1) people who hit the dance floor and (2) the people who watch people dancing & getting drunk while they sit at the side :P I am of the latter. The rest had a great time dancing to various R&B hitz.
Enjoy the pics – some are taken by Euveng :D
The twitters who turned up : spinzer, meiyingt, davybates, joycescapade, williamnka, joshlim, kwangchen – thanks sooo much for paying for my parking :D, euveng, serpentinegal & royalshortness – who went back early :(, charliechia, kruel74, GSJone, and and…errr will add more later when I’ve had sleep.
Do drop comments if you’ve uploaded pics or wrote a blog post. Also if I’ve missed out your name.
All in all, it was an awesome tweetup and cant wait for another one soon :D
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Twestival KL – Tweet. Meet. Give
Tweet up – A meetup of people who use Twitter, also called Tweeters or Twitter-ers
Twestival - Event or festival organized under short timescales & 100% run by volunteers, for fundraising/charity.
Pic by @reubenhot
In this case, Twestival KL was run by a small organizing committee comprising of @Ling_chan @davidlian @Suanie @radianceleong @nigelais @Eevon @nikicheong and all proceeds were to be given to Destiny Starting Point, a home for delinquent youths in Klang to turn their life around.
I reached Mist Club Bangsar at around 7.10-7.15pm since it wasn’t very jammed, surprisingly. Got awesome parking in the front. Hehe! Walked in and saw the 1901 Hotdogs booth and some cupcakes frm Cupcake Chic. Was too stuffed to eat tho.
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Mini Blogger’s Gathering 2008
I just came back from a blogger’s gathering. What blogger’s gathering, you ask? This one..
Its a blogger’s gathering organized by Evie of evelynholic and Calvin of recordedmoments. This is their 2nd annual gathering. They organized one last year but I couldn’t make it and cant remember what excuse did I use. lol!
Marche had some negative points last nite – the aircon had problems and the seating area was a bit cramped – but it was really fun to meet up with bloggers that I havent met before. Some looked familiar and others I haven’t even heard of their blogs (heh, sorry!).
I remember sitting down and chit chatting when I asked one of the bloggers (JenkinYat to be exact) if he was also in LYN and he said yes. Then when I mentioned my nick there then a few of them went “Ooooo..always see ur name everyway”. Yes, I know, i got nothing better to do nowadays. LOL!
Bloggers who attended :
- Evie
- Calvin
- Jenkin Yat
- Thomas
- Royal Shortness aka Brian David (At first I forgot ur name but i luckily I rmbred ur blog address for very obvious reasons.err..better no need to elaborate)
- Brian’s gf – Hsu Jen
- Chee Ching
- Itchy hands something something (sori forgot ur name)
- That nice guy who helped me open my bottle and got classes on weekends (sori , also forgot ur name)
- A Mirian girl (err.)
- Another Mirian girl (um..yea well)
- more people I don’t really remember their names/blog address. Will update again later
Yes, I am VERY BAD with names. Gotta wait for Evie to get back to us with the list (when and if she actually does). Hehe! Still, nice to meet you guys tho :D
p/s: We lepaked in SS2 opposite the police station and Ib saw me and only called me (on the phone) just as he left. Ceh! Din even tegur la? I merajuk now. Happy bday btw :P
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Hari Bintang Jatuh & Open Houses
I’ll be soo utterly busy this weekend.
- Friday evening – breifing on the hari bintang jatuh event (info) in Ampang
- Friday night – Will be up to my elbows in flour, sugar and cream cheese churning out goodies for Saturday
- Saturday – set up gerai and enjoy good music, poetry and shopping!
- Saturday night – I got something up but i cant rmbr as of now
- Sunday – fren invited to his place in Kajang for open hse, my neighbour also invited us for open house and Bebudak reban ayam also have a gathering in Cheras
How am I going to split myself to three on Sunday is still everyone’s guess. I have not confirmed for any of the 3 on sunday, scared too tired by then -_-
Have a fun filled weekend ppl!
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