"I taste something different each time I try this beer," says brewer Rory Lancellas of his Midnight Porter. It certainly is a well-made and fairly complex brew, and so it should be - the brewer at Cape Town's newest brewery (opened October 2015) closely follows a...
I've been waiting a long time to taste the beers from Stellenbosch Brewing Company. I met brewer/co-owner Bruce Collins at a SouthYeasters meeting over three years ago, and the brewery was featured in the 'Ones to watch' section of African Brew back in early 2013....
Named for one of South Africa's earliest commerical brewers, Jacob Letterstedt, the pale ale from Newlands Spring is based on a 155-year-old recipe found in SAB's archives. There still aren't many people producing English-style beers in South Africa, so I was happy...
White Oak Wheat Beer is the latest Innis & Gunn brew to arrive in South Africa. The I&G website describes it as a "German-style wheat beer", but with additions of blood orange and bergamot (Googled it so you don't have to - it's a citrus fruit), to me this...
I've always admired Devil's Peak for not tiptoeing on to the South African beer scene. They arrived at the 2011 CTFoB and whacked us all in the face with a great big bag of much-needed hops. So I won't lie - I was a trifle disappointed when I learned that they...
If you're a beer fan - and the fact that you're reading this blog suggests that you probably are - you might well have already tasted the trio of Innis & Gunn beers that recently hit South African shores. Since arriving the beers have launched with a flourish,...
To look at this beer, you'd never know that its main ingredient is a "starchy tuberous root" (to quote Wikipedia) Impala, launched in 2011, was the world's first commercial beer brewed with cassava. Produced by Cervejas de Moçambique, the Mozambican arm of...
My beer reviews tend to stick to just one beer but since these four essentially come as a package deal, it makes sense to do a complete roundup. It's that time of year when BrewDog puts out its prototype beers for public appraisal. The most popular makes it into...
Late last year, when beer lovers heard about Red Dawn's patent, which basically attempts to prohibit the use of rooibos or honeybush in a beer (or wine, or cider), they were understandably livid. Not only was it, according to people who know a lot more about patent...
