Brewing the Republic: a documentary on South African beer
It’s been a couple of years in the making and last night Brewing the Republic, a feature-length documentary on the South African beer scene, was premiered at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town. It was a perfect evening: glorious weather to mingle in the courtyard sipping on Newlands Spring brews, an impressive turnout of brewers, […]
Beer review: ACBC x Richmond Hill Previously Lit Area BIPA
Everyone knows that craft beer drinkers are a fickle bunch. This month’s hot new release is next month’s forgotten fad. And there is probably no beer that’s considered more of a forgotten fad than black IPA. Well I for one am not happy about this. Of all the speciality IPAs (Belgian, black, brown, red, rye, […]
Winners of the 2018 Brewmistress Awards
Voting has closed and the responses have laboriously been tallied. Just over 200 beer lovers took part in the second annual Brewmistress South African Beer Awards with dozens and dozens of breweries, bars and bottle stores nominated. Although it makes the count a bit of a pain in the ass, the fact that so many […]
The Brewmistress South African Beer Awards 2018
It’s December! A time for scheduling in multiple hangovers, panic buying crap on Takealot and for wasting those last few days of work before you finish for the year. And I have just the thing to help you while away a few minutes – it’s time for the second annual Brewmistress Beer Awards. This hotly coveted mildly […]
