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Karaoke collabs: exclusive to Woodstock Winter Beer Festival
It all began in a tiny pub in Greyton. I love singing. Can’t say I’m particularly great at it. I don’t think I’d make the joke reel on X Factor, but I certainly wouldn’t be getting any golden tickets either. I do love a bit of karaoke though and after an epic night commandeering the […]
Beer review: Stellar Noctis Stout
This isn’t so much a beer review as a story I want to tell, dressed up as a beer review. It all began somewhere on the N5 between Clarens and Bloemfontein. We had epically roadtripped from Cape Town to Clarens along the coast, spent a spectacular few days at the Clarens Craft Beer Festival and […]
Winners of the 2019 African Beer Cup
It’s been 10 days since the winners of the inaugural African Beer Cup were announced and I have finally found time to add the info to the blog. Some of you have noticed that blog posts have become a little sparse this year and part of the reason for that is the ABC. Co-founded with […]
Soul Barrel launches Ale of Origin – a truly South African brew
It strikes me as ironic that one of the brewers that is most passionate about developing truly South African beer styles is not from South Africa at all. Soul Barrel’s Nick Smith hails from the USA and while he does brew an IPA with American hops, he also brews a South African version, Cape Cone, […]
