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...
Beerfest season is well and truly upon us and to get things off to a cheery start, the lovely people at The Craft Revolution have given me a bunch of tickets to pass on to you, the beer-loving public! The next edition of The Craft Revolution is happening...
You know those fake images of DeLorean control panels sporting today's date and claiming that this was the day that Doc and Marty travelled into in Back to the Future II? Yeah, well this time, it's for real. October 21st 2015. An auspicious day and one that anyone...
I don't know about anyone else, but I've lost count of how many breweries there are in South Africa. I'd put the total at about 130, including contract brewers, thought I'm sure there are nano-breweries based on backwater farms that only the locals know about. One...
Recently, a few beer geek friends and I have been having a low-key debate on whether there is room for more lager in the South African beer scene. Our craft beer boom launched with lager - something that didn't escape All About Beer writer Jim Clarke back in 2011....
As the beer community continues to discuss the acquisition of craft beers by whopping great breweries like Anheuser-Busch InBev, South Africa's home-grown big brewery has taken a different route into the realm of speciality beer. SABMiller's Newlands plant has...
People have been talking about the "craft beer revolution" in South Africa for a few years now. It started slowly - the odd Jack Black tap here, a bottle of Darling Slow Beer there. First it was just bearded homebrewers who were interested in ales, then the bearded...
