Beer Reviews
Beer review: Chibuku Shake-Shake
I have been writing about beer in South Africa for almost nine years and yet you could probably squeeze every word I’ve ever written about traditional sorghum beer into a single tweet. It’s kind of sad that while South Africa has been having this beer awakening, or renaissance, or whatever you want to call it, […]
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 […]
