Beer Reviews
Beer review: Hey Joe Lavender Honey Saison
For some reason I’m not aware of, I haven’t written anything about Hey Joe Brewing Company on the blog yet. After a few false starts and many months of anticipation, the brewery opened in Franschhoek in April. If you haven’t visited yet, put it on your summer to-do list. Hey Joe is what I would […]
Beer review: Drifter x Tiny Keg Canned Grenade
It is perhaps no secret to those that know me, or regularly follow my ramblings, that I am not the beer world’s biggest NEIPA fan. I tend to like my IPAs bitter and crisp and don’t generally find New England IPAs to be particularly thirst quenching. Also, in South Africa at least, I don’t find […]
Beer review: Stellar Noctis Stout
This isn’t so much a beer review as a story I want to tell, dressed up as a beer review. It all began somewhere on the N5 between Clarens and Bloemfontein. We had epically roadtripped from Cape Town to Clarens along the coast, spent a spectacular few days at the Clarens Craft Beer Festival and […]
Beer Review: Camelthorn IPA
DISCLOSURE: Last night, Dissident Beer (AKA my husband, Shawn) wanted ‘one last beer’ and the only thing in the fridge was the final remaining bottle of Camelthorn’s new IPA that was delivered last week. I had been saving it to review but as you might have noticed, I’m a bit crap at the blog these […]
