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Win a 5-litre growler from the Real Draught Beer Co.
It’s a debate that will never end, a question as old as time itself (or at least as old as the invention of glass bottles): which is better, draught beer or bottled beer? There’s a time and a place for both and while beers that benefit from ageing are probably better from the bottle, in […]
Is South Africa’s craft beer scene in a slump?
Between 2014 and 2016, brewery numbers in South Africa almost doubled (from 86 to 154). Two years on, the growth has slowed and today we have around 225 microbreweries and contract brewers, some of which are rarely, if ever, heard from. In the past 12 months or so, we have seen the launch of 18 […]
Beer review: Little Wolf Lemon Geranium Saison
I kind of fell in love with this beer before I’d even tasted it. When Little Wolf held an evening of saison appreciation a few weeks back, I was recovering from a three-week trip to the States (stinking cold picked up on the plane and a touch of beer fatigue from the hundred-plus beers tasted). […]
A note on sexist beer branding
Last night, just as I was tucking into my “yay the child is in bed” beer, my phoned beeped. It was a message from our Women in Beer group, a screen grab of labels from a new contract brewery in Gauteng. There was a fairly instant uproar. I read a lot about sexism in beer […]