Help Kennel Brewery open their own taproom
If you spend much time on beer related social media, you have probably heard of The Kennel Brewery. Based in Durbanville, the microbrewery is best known for its one-off beers (29 releases in 2021!), light-hearted videos and fabulous can art (they also have their own design studio, The Kennel Creative). What they don’t have is […]
Friday Beers: Local Brewery & Co. in Cape Town
Friday beers. It has to be one of my favourite rituals in life. It doesn’t matter which country I’m in, or what kind of job I’m doing, the arrival of Friday afternoon has always been synonymous with a round or three of cold, local beers with a bunch of happy folk joining together to toast […]
Ten years of blogging about beer
It was all a bit of an accident really. When I arrived in South Africa in 2010, I had spent the last few years fulfilling a major life goal and working as a freelance travel writer. But as I’m sure you know, travelling from South Africa is a lot more complicated and expensive than using […]
Winners of the 2021 Brewmistress South African Beer Awards
The votes have (finally) been tallied and the results are ready to announce. This is the fifth annual installment of the Brewmistress South African Beer Awards and there are four establishments that have made the honour roll for five years in a row – see if you can spot them among this year’s winners. Thanks […]