Ian Williams' nano brewery business, WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery, was used by Santiago Aon Ratto to brew his award-winning pilsner. Photo / Natalie Slade
Ian Williams' nano brewery business, WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery, was used by Santiago Aon Ratto to brew his award-winning pilsner. Photo / Natalie Slade
An Auckland home-brewer has beaten big commercial players and received top honours at the Asia Beer Awards.
Sales executive Santiago Aon Ratto took away the gold award last week for a pilsner he concocted using a WilliamsWarn personal brewing machine at his home in Mission Bay.
The AsiaBeer awards are part of Singapore's Beerfest Asia and attract hundreds of entries from a number of countries.
Ratto said the winning brew was only the third batch of beer he had made and used a recipe prepared by WilliamsWarn founder Ian Williams.
"I was very happy with the final product. I'm not a trained brew master and I haven't had the WilliamsWarn for long, so to make the best pilsner in the Asia Pacific region in just my third batch is absolutely incredible," Ratto said.
Retailing at $6500, the machine claims to take "all the errors" out of home-brewing and reduce the time needed to make a batch.
According to the company, it has already sold the 70 units made as part of its initial run and is now working on a second generation of the personal brewery due out later this year.