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BJ Lankwarden’s South African Beer Drinker’s Guide
Some of you might know that last year, I, along with local photographer Ryno Reyneke, spent a few months sipping my way around South Africa in the name of research for a detailed book on the country’s beer scene. The book, African Brew, will be published soon and for ages I’ve been touting it as SA’s […]
Cape Brewing Company Opens
I’m just a humble brewer,” says Wolfgang Koedel, as he stands amid brewing equipment that is more than likely giving some of the guys in our group of cerevisaphiles a beer chubby. The brewery in question is the one that has been talked about in beer circles for close to a year. It’s the brewery […]
Hello 2013: My New Beer’s Resolutions
I’d like to raise a glass to 2012, a year that offered me the chance to taste well over 100 different beers. I sampled ales and lagers from 40 South African microbreweries, I finally got to sip some Dogfish Head IPA, I was treated to tasters of hand-crafted ales from the US and Italy, I […]
2012: The year in beer
It would not be an exaggeration to say that 2012 was one of the biggest years in South African beer since Jan van Riebeeck sent a ship home for brewing supplies. Brewery numbers doubled, homebrewing became a must-do hobby and we were treated to a range of beer styles that had never before been seen […]
