A love letter to the South African craft beer community
I am guilty of sometimes focusing on the negative when it comes to the South African craft beer industry. I have moaned about brewers not wanting to invest in training or equipment, grumbled about lazy contract brewing and rambled on and on about the perils of...
Win tickets to the Saggy Stone Beer and Music Festival
South African National Beer Day is almost upon us and to mark the occasion, the good people at Saggy Stone Brewing Company are gifting two tickets to the annual Saggy Stone Beer and Music Festival. The festival takes place at Saggy Stone, near Robertson, on...
South African National Beer Day returns on February 2, 2019
It's time to celebrate the most bestest beverage on earth! February 2nd marks the third annual South African National Beer Day - and it's going to be the biggest yet! The idea of the day is simple - to celebrate our national beverage. Don't ever let people fool you...
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...
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...
Statistics for the South African Craft Beer Industry (2018)
It has been two years since I last published a post offering some statistics for the South African craft beer scene. That piece has become the second most-viewed post ever published on the blog, not least - I suspect - because stats for South African craft beer are...
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...
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...
Riot launches collab IPA with California’s Stone Brewing
If you've ever wanted to taste a beer from Stone Brewing, but travelling to the States is a bit beyond your budget, here's your chance. Cape Town based Riot Beer have brewed a collab IPA at Stone's San Diego brewery and a very limited amount will be on tap this...