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Contract Brewing in South Africa
If you’re an uber beer nerd, you might have laughed raucously over a video recently doing the rounds, focusing on a group of beer snobs making increasingly douchebag-like comments about the beers they’re tasting. I can call them this because I too am a beer douche. I was nodding along with everything they said, literally uttering […]
Five strictly South African beers
I was going to go down the braai route for the September 24th public holiday, offering beer ‘n’ braai food pairings and asking for your favourite beers to sip with skilpadjies, boerewors and burgers. Then I remembered that September 24th is actually Heritage Day, a time to celebrate this fine country’s varied cultures and traditions and […]
Talk like a pirate, drink like a pirate
If ye, like me, be a Pastafarian, ye’ll be knowing that Septembarrrrr 19th be a special day in the log book. It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, when we honour our fallen seafarin’ mateys an’ the efforts they made t’ slow down global warrrming. By way o’ celebratin’ this grog fest, I be bringin’ ye not only […]
If beer festivals were wine festivals…
South Africa’s beer culture is young. It is not a nation that’s new to drinking beer by any means, but savouring beer, appreciating beer as something other than a beverage to glug with the cricket or to douse the summer heat – this is still a fairly new concept to a lot of people. And why wouldn’t it be? […]