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Craft Beer Tasting at the 12 Apostles
It’s not an exaggeration to say that over the past five years, the craft beer scene in South Africa has exploded. Pints of ale have moved from the hands of bearded homebrewers to the hands of bearded hipsters and then into the hands of the not-necessarily-bearded general beer-drinking public. We’ve seen the scene go from one or […]
Beer Review: Innis & Gunn
If you’re a beer fan – and the fact that you’re reading this blog suggests that you probably are – you might well have already tasted the trio of Innis & Gunn beers that recently hit South African shores. Since arriving the beers have launched with a flourish, appearing at homebrew club events, high-end food pairings […]
Winter specials at Den Anker
As winter inches closer, beer geeks’ fridges are being emptied of pilsners and witbiers then restocked with Russian imperial stouts, imperial IPAs and Belgian dubbels. If you’re in Cape Town there are plenty of the latter at Den Anker, The Waterfront institution is sometimes thought of as more of a tourist hang-out than a locals’ […]
Apple and Urbock Crumble
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 – there has to […]
