Armed with a chemical and biomolecular engineering degree from National University of Singapore, he pursued his passion in spirit formulation by fermenting various garden-variety ingredients at home until he found his winning spirit — mead. “I was trying to brew different kinds of things like rice wine and beer, and even got grapes from the supermarket to make wine but they turned out quite horrible,” he laughs.
If you have harboured dreams of creating and bottling your own rum or whiskey, you can now do so at Compendium Spirits which offers a barrel ageing programme that gives customers closer look at how spirits are created from start to end.
The local distillery is the brainchild of founder and master distiller 37-year-old Simon Zhao who started home-brewing as a hobby in 2008, while holding down a day job supplying uniforms to the Singapore Police Force and Civil Defence Force.
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