It occurred to me it was Thursday already and I saw that Trezor and Ledger reported an influx of sales over the past week.  Likely due to yet another crypto exchange engaging in money laundering on behalf of the US Foreign Policy establishment going bankrupt.  Not your keys not your crypto…

I can’t sit through another crypto piece again, and so…

This is my review of Singha:

I mentioned a cocktail last week involving beer and raw eggs.  I found this human interest story in SCMP and a particular line in the story caught my eye:

Though many of Hoa’s customers have never heard of egg beer, he says he has won most over – especially those from beer-guzzling Germany – and sells up to 20 a day.

There was nothing else left to do, but get a couple eggs.  To make it you will need:

  • 2 Raw eggs
  • 1 TBSP whipped butter
  • 2 TBSP softened cream cheese
  • 4 TBSP condensed milk
  • 150mL of beer

You whisk the whole thing together, pour half a beer into it and stir with a spoon.  Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain a Vietnamese beer.  My choices of Asian beer were limited to Tsingtao and various brands from Japan but on the bottom shelf I found a Singha (Thailand). The recipe only calls for half a beer so I’ll kill two birds.

Hanoi Egg Beer is rather rich.  It is essentially a beer based milkshake or maybe even a beer smoothie.  In all it is more of dessert than anything, and it seemed like the character of the cocktail can be drastically changed simply by changing the beer used.  Don’t worry I tried that too.  It turns out it works pretty well with stouts, as the flavor profile and texture matches up very well.  I will not do this again.  Drinking two of these in one sitting…let’s just say I was full.

 

As for Singha?  Its a Pilsner and it meets the expectations for the style. A good way to describe it is reminiscent of Warsteiner but finished more like a Dutch variety.  This is not to imply damnation with faint praise, where there are an awful lot of bad examples of Pilsner on the market that have no incentive to improve because they have massive sales.  Its not a bad example at all.  Singha:  2.8/5