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Beer review: Three South African stouts
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 overly charred, like burnt […]
Win tickets to the 2018 Woodstock Winter Beer Festival
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 Woodstock Winter […]
Win a 5-litre growler from the Real Draught Beer Co.
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 better from the bottle, in […]
Is South Africa’s craft beer scene in a slump?
Between 2014 and 2016, brewery numbers in South Africa almost doubled (from 86 to 154). Two years on, the growth has slowed and today we have around 225 microbreweries and contract brewers, some of which are rarely, if ever, heard from. In the past 12 months or so, we have seen the launch of 18 […]
