Dates, rules and prizes have been announced for the 2015 National Craft Brewers Championships - entries are now open until 23rd October 2015. Sponsored by SAB and backed by Craft Beer South Africa (CBSA), the competition is open to professional craft brewers based...
Finally, the announcement has been made - the 2015 South African National Homebrew Championships are taking place and it's time to get brewing. The deadline for entries is October 30th 2015 and there are drop-off points in Cape Town, Jo'burg, Pretoria, Durban,...
There's a strange idea floating out in the world that beer is not a breakfast beverage. This is quite ridiculous - not only can you drink beer for breakfast (I suggest restricted this to weekends/non-working days), you can even make breakfast with the ingredients...
Mitchell's Brewery, South Africa's oldest microbrewery, has a brand new brewer. John Horn is a former SAB brewer with many years of experience under his belt. Mitchell's was founded in 1983, staying afloat for decades until the craft beer revolution hit South...
So you've bought a beer, it turned out to not be great, you've taken action to alert the brewer - now what? There are few things sadder than the sound of your R30 bottle of ale glugging down the sink so STOP! Don't tip away that sour ale or the ancient lager you...
At the recent Beer Boot Camp, a well known South African beer geek asked me an interesting question: what do you do when you buy a beer and find that, having paid your R30-ish for a bottle, it's undrinkable and ends up glugging down your sink. It's a topic that's...
Last month saw judging take place for a new beer competition, the South African National Beer Trophy. It was a BJCP event, with five judges sampling brews submitted from around the country. Beers were split into seven broad categories - light, amber, hoppy, wheat,...
It's possible that, at some point in your life, you've paid good money for a bad beer. "There is no such thing as a bad beer," is the oft-repeated quote from businessman, beer promoter and presidential brother, Billy Carter. "It's that some taste better than...
In previous years for Women's Day, I have penned pieces on women in the South African beer scene and also on the whole phenomenon of 'beer for women'. Well, it's Women's Day again (happy day ladies) and what with it being International Beer Day last Friday (sorry,...
