Beer and dessert can be a superb match - and it's not just me that thinks so. Even Shakespeare wrote about 'cakes and ale' in the same sentence and if that's not a recommendation for drinking a pint with your pud, then I don't know what is. (Well OK, a half-pint -...
Cnr Beach & Sidmouth Rds, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Tel: 021 788 1860. tigersmilk.co.za. Mains R75-180. 500ml South African draught craft beer R35-47 Finally, the seafront strip in Muizenberg is getting some appealing eating - and drinking - options. Tiger's Milk...
Sometimes I get a bit fed up with the whole 'girls don't drink beer' thing. How often do you read guff like 'ladies will love our fruit-based ciders' or 'bring the whole family to our beer fest - we are serving wine for the wives' or maybe see a photo of...
One of the things I'm always keen to do is to make people realise that beer can be a delicate beverage; that it's not just something to drink with a burger or a plate of fish and chips. So I was thrilled when Tanja Kruger, head chef at Majeka House's Makaron,...
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 Mozambican arm of...
In an ongoing crusade to prove to people that beer goes with food just as well as even better than wine does, the blog will now feature recipes - some paired with beer, some cooked with beer, some paired and cooked with beer and all to be prepared with a beer in...
It's been a busy month in Brewmistress land and I've neglected the blog a bit, for which profusely apologise (and would like to say thanks to those of who who still stop by every day regardless). It seems a long time since I attended the IBD's Africa section...
Once a month or so I meet up with a group of beer geeks and taste a range of tough-to-find brews. It's not like I only see these guys once a month of course, I see them all the time. And our What's App group has exchanged almost 15,000 messages in the past year...
Every year around mid-Feb I roll out some vaguely Valentiney blog post like how to pair beer with chocolate or how to choose a beer that will help you get what you want on Valentine's Day. Well I'm not going to do that this year. Instead I'm going to point you in...
