It was always going to be a global adventure. Although I’d long-been a lager drinker in my UK homeland, it took a Canadian that I met in Cairo to get me drinking traditional English ales. Over the next five years, beer became a focus of our travels. We bought the...
Is there anyone here who likes hops? Read on. Not living in the Cape Town area? You might want to look away now. Starting Thursday, March 17th at Banana Jam Cafe and Beerhouse on Long, two lesser-known hop strains will battle it out to see who is the queen of the...
For the beer enthusiast, it's one of the premier events of the year in South Africa. This year marks the 10th annual SouthYeasters Summer Festival, where members of the Cape Town homebrewing club gather together to share their brews with the public. This year's...
As it’s over a week since the 2016 Clarens Craft Beer Festival ended, it might seem a little pointless writing a post-fest post. But I think a festival that leaves you needing several days to recover deserves a write-up, however long it takes you to get around to...
For the first time, the ladies of the South African beer industry will join together to celebrate International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day on March 8th, 2016 and are inviting South African women to join the fun! Craft brewers, homebrewers and beer enthusiasts...
Chances are, if you've been around on the SA beer scene for a while, you'll remember Camelthorn Brewing Co. The Namibian-based brewery launched in 2009 and was a prominent player in the early years of South Africa's craft beer scene. Their weissbier and American...
Last week the blog went crazy with comments from grumpy craft beer lovers, fed up with the lack of quality control in South Africa. A simple, 300-odd word post attracted more comments than any other I've written to date and in general, people seemed pretty pissed...
Today is Shrove Tuesday. As a practicing Pastafarian, I'm not entirely sure what that means, but as a Brit it means pancakes! (Is that also the case for South Africans??) And what better way to make a pancake than by getting rid of the milk and replacing it with...
A couple of weeks ago, when I published a post featuring a few beer-related ramblings and irks, a fellow beer blogger commented that one of the things that bothers him is the lack of honest reviews on blogs when it comes to bad beer. It was something he covered in...
