It's that time of year again - the time when the South African beer community gets together to give you a whopping TWELVE DAYS of beery giveaways. Forget partridges in pear trees, this year the 12 Days of Beermas brings you homebrew kits and brewery trips, books...
I love the Cape Town Festival of Beer. It's probably my favourite beerfest of the year. Sure, part of that is because the festival is basically a reunion - I can see pretty much all my friends in South Africa without walking more than a couple of hundred metres....
I'm rather thrilled to announce that my new book, Beer Safari, is now available. Published by Penguin Random House, the book features well over 100 South African microbreweries, laid out geographically (with the prettiest maps you've ever seen) to help you to plan...
Beer Safari is out! And to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be joining Beerhouse for two Meet the Brewer Author events - on in Johannesburg on December 2nd and the other in Cape Town on December 7th. Each evening will feature five of my 'Big Five Pints' -...
Craft beer, craft beer, craft beer. It's all anyone drinks these days, right? Well, not quite. There is, among all that ale (and apparently some people still drink wine..??!), a burgeoning craft spirits scene in South Africa, particularly in Cape Town. Woodstock -...
A whopping 25 judges, made up of BJCP-qualified tasters, SAB brewers, industry players and beer enthusiasts, met in Johannesburg last month to judge the third annual South African National Craft Brewers Championship. Judges had to be shipped in an the last minute...
If you've flown out of OR Tambo International Airport on a domestic flight lately, you might have noticed an intriguing new addition to the departure lounge's food and beverage offering - Airport Craft Brewers. The brains behind this bar really know what people...
To followers of the beer scene, it won't come as any great surprise that Greg Casey - of Banana Jam fame - has opened a microbrewery at the long-running Caribbean-themed temple of beer. In fact, half of you are probably thinking 'didn't Banana Jam already have a...
There is an ongoing debate as to whether kids and breweries can mix. Well in my life they can. They do. They must. And an increasing number of brewery owners seem to understand that having a safe place for kids to play is good for business. Here are some of my...
