Huzzah, a new IPA on the South African beer scene. Now I know that there's not a shortage of beers bearing the IPA handle on their label, but what there is a shortage of in many of said beers is hops. "I want to brew an IPA, but I don't want it to be too hoppy,...
You know those fake images of DeLorean control panels sporting today's date and claiming that this was the day that Doc and Marty travelled into in Back to the Future II? Yeah, well this time, it's for real. October 21st 2015. An auspicious day and one that anyone...
"I taste something different each time I try this beer," says brewer Rory Lancellas of his Midnight Porter. It certainly is a well-made and fairly complex brew, and so it should be - the brewer at Cape Town's newest brewery (opened October 2015) closely follows a...
I don't know about anyone else, but I've lost count of how many breweries there are in South Africa. I'd put the total at about 130, including contract brewers, thought I'm sure there are nano-breweries based on backwater farms that only the locals know about. One...
I've been waiting a long time to taste the beers from Stellenbosch Brewing Company. I met brewer/co-owner Bruce Collins at a SouthYeasters meeting over three years ago, and the brewery was featured in the 'Ones to watch' section of African Brew back in early 2013....
Recently, a few beer geek friends and I have been having a low-key debate on whether there is room for more lager in the South African beer scene. Our craft beer boom launched with lager - something that didn't escape All About Beer writer Jim Clarke back in 2011....
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, so I was happy...
As the beer community continues to discuss the acquisition of craft beers by whopping great breweries like Anheuser-Busch InBev, South Africa's home-grown big brewery has taken a different route into the realm of speciality beer. SABMiller's Newlands plant has...
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 citrus fruit), to me this...
