If you've ever wanted to taste a beer from Stone Brewing, but travelling to the States is a bit beyond your budget, here's your chance. Cape Town based Riot Beer have brewed a collab IPA at Stone's San Diego brewery and a very limited amount will be on tap this...
You might have noticed a few new names on the beer shelves lately. Well actually, they're very familiar names, but new to South Africa. Last month, Lagunitas beers arrived in our liquor stores and bars. Around 40 especially chosen establishments around the Western...
As a continent, we are lagging behind somewhat when it comes to craft beer. At the moment, outside of South Africa, I have around 20 microbreweries on my very high-tech African breweries spreadsheet. So I was pleased to recently add Big Sip Co. to the list - the...
At the 4th annual South African National Beer Trophy, a record 212 beers were entered. Twenty two of them won gold medals and a further 59 were awarded silvers. Beers are judged to the 2015 BJCP style guidelines. There were six trophies awarded for the best beer...
Last week, in what started as a quiet deal and ended being shouted from the social media rooftops, Devil’s Peak – or in fact Signal Hill Products, the parent company to the Cape Town brewery - struck a deal with The Tap Room, buying some 700 installed draught taps...
If you live in the Overberg and were watching last week's many Cape Town beer events with envy, it's time to rejoice! This weekend, it's your turn, with two days of beery events held at Fraser's Folly brewery near Elim. And if you're not an Overberger, it is a long...
There's always been a bit of a dearth of dark beers in South Africa. Well, there has, at least, been a dearth of good dark beers in South Africa. Too many of them are thin. Too many are overly acidic thanks to the brewer's indifference to mash pH. Too many are...
A few years ago, on any given Saturday you could find a whole load of beer fests to choose from in the Cape Town area. Some were amazing, others badly run and others just a total rip off. Many have fallen away and the cream, as it tends to do, has risen. The...
It's a debate that will never end, a question as old as time itself (or at least as old as the invention of glass bottles): which is better, draught beer or bottled beer? There's a time and a place for both and while beers that benefit from ageing are probably...
