Do you know what South Africans love? Beer. Beer is by far our favourite alcoholic beverage and that's why it has its own day! South African National Beer Day started back in 2017 as a southern hemisphere response to International Beer Day, which falls on the first...
As we're still in January I thought you might still be looking for some kind of goal for 2024. So how about becoming a qualified beer judge? There are various methods and sets of guidelines used in beer competitions around the world, but in South Africa we almost...
January is traditionally a time to make lists of rash promises that you have no intention of keeping past the middle of the month. I've long since given up trying to convince myself that I'll be more organised or drink less or ever tidy the mountain of receipts and...
This weekend, Soul Barrel Brewing in Simondium is launching the strongest beer in South Africa. This perhaps reads a little like clickbait – a beer based on gimmick and sold with hyperbole, but I can tell you this beer wasn’t some flash-in-the-pan project to get...
It's taken me such a long time to get around to writing this that most of the items here probably couldn't be classed as news any more, but here you go anyway - some things that have been going on in South African craft beer lately: 1000 Hills Brewing Co wins Beer...
South Africa is, as far as I know, the only country in the world that has a major intervarsity brewing competition (although do feel free to correct me if that's not accurate). Imagine this: you're a student of microbiology or chemical engineering or some such...
Oktoberfest is now over in Germany, so it seems about right that it's just getting started in South Africa - we're not known for our punctuality after all. I thought I'd do a quick round up of Oktoberfest celebrations happening around SA so that you can spend your...
I love it when big breweries release something new. Even if it is a play on one of their existing lagers. It can't be easy bringing out new beers when you work on such a massive scale, and have so very many kilometres of big business red tape to crawl through....
There’s a set of style guidelines that’s used in beer competitions around the world. It’s curated by an American organisation called the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). It’s by no means the only set of guidelines in use, but the BJCP is the standard for...
