Beer review: Newlands Spring Jacob’s Pale Ale

Beer review: Newlands Spring Jacob’s Pale Ale

Named for one of South Africa’s earliest commerical brewers, Jacob Letterstedt, the pale ale from Newlands Spring is based on a 155-year-old recipe found in SAB’s archives. There still aren’t many people producing English-style beers in South Africa,...
Beer review: Innis & Gunn White Oak Wheat

Beer review: Innis & Gunn White Oak Wheat

White Oak Wheat Beer is the latest Innis & Gunn brew to arrive in South Africa. The I&G website describes it as a “German-style wheat beer”, but with additions of blood orange and bergamot (Googled it so you don’t have to – it’s a...
Beer review: Impala (cassava beer)

Beer review: Impala (cassava beer)

To look at this beer, you’d never know that its main ingredient is a “starchy tuberous root” (to quote Wikipedia) Impala, launched in 2011, was the world’s first commercial beer brewed with cassava. Produced by Cervejas de Moçambique, the...
Beer review: Brewdog 2014 Prototype Series

Beer review: Brewdog 2014 Prototype Series

My beer reviews tend to stick to just one beer but since these four essentially come as a package deal, it makes sense to do a complete roundup. It’s that time of year when BrewDog puts out its prototype beers for public appraisal. The most popular makes it into...
Beer review: Stellenbrau Governor’s Red Lager

Beer review: Stellenbrau Governor’s Red Lager

Late last year, when beer lovers heard about Red Dawn’s patent, which basically attempts to prohibit the use of rooibos or honeybush in a beer (or wine, or cider), they were understandably livid. Not only was it, according to people who know a lot more about...
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