Welcome back to South Africa, Pilsner Urquell
When ABI took over SAB in 2016, the local beer industry was filled with questions: would they decide to crush craft? Would Budweiser replace Black Label as South Africa's favourite beer? How many jobs would be lost? And perhaps most worryingly of all, how would I...
A note on South Africa’s drink-driving problem
South Africa has an issue with drink-driving, and I am a part of the problem. I’m pretty sure you are too. Don’t get me wrong. I’m really careful when it comes to not driving after a night in the bar. I almost always Uber to any beer-related event and on the rare...
Win tickets to the Capegate Craft Beer Festival
People of the Northern Suburbs - listen up! I know you sometimes feel a little left out in the whole craft beer thing, so here's a post especially for you (which is not to say that it's not for everyone else as well, of course). This weekend, August 30 and 31, the...
Six bullshit excuses you’re giving to not attend Beer Boot Camp (and why they’re bullshit)
Ah, I do have a potty mouth. But the fact that you read the title of this article and still clicked on it suggests that you don't mind, so let me expand... Next weekend (Aug 24 & 25) it is the fourth Beer Boot Camp, being held in Gauteng. I've come across a...
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...
Karaoke Collabs: Little Wolf – Dark Dessert Highway
Before anyone emails to tell me that I have misspelt 'desert', I have not. This beer - a chocolate caramel imperial mild - is best served as (or with if you're one of those people that needs cake) dessert. It was inspired by The Eagles' classic Hotel California,...
Karaoke Collabs: Urban Brewing Co. – Midnight Train
It's the longest of the Karaoke Collabs videos, but when a song doesn't actually mention its title until three minutes in, it's tough to keep the clip below a minute and a half! We had so much fun with this and wow, Urban's Charlie Murray has some pipes. Come and...
Karaoke Collabs: Metal Lane – Ring of Fire
It was conceptualised as the perfect winter warmer - a 6% ABV stout with added chili and cacao nibs. The beer was to be called Hot Chocolate and the song that accompanied it was originally going to be You Sexy Thing. But Metal Lane brewer Murray Middleton was,...
Karaoke Collabs: Afro Caribbean & Dissident – Collaborate & Listen
We collaborated, we listened, we practiced our running man and we brewed a strawberry milkshake IPA. Check out the brewday vid for Collaborate & Listen, inspired of course by Vanilla Ice's classic (some would say only) hit, Ice Ice Baby. You can taste the...
