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 […]
Soul Barrel launches Ale of Origin – a truly South African brew
It strikes me as ironic that one of the brewers that is most passionate about developing truly South African beer styles is not from South Africa at all. Soul Barrel’s Nick Smith hails from the USA and while he does brew an IPA with American hops, he also brews a South African version, Cape Cone, […]
Newlands Spring releases collab with Elysian Brewing
Newlands Spring Brewing Company has released a limited edition, one-off batch of fresh hop IPA brewed in collaboration with Seattle-based Elysian Brewing Company. The beer, 10,000 miles, is named for the distance between the two breweries, which are both owned by AB InBev. The idea for the collab began to germinate two years ago, when […]
Beer Review: Camelthorn IPA
DISCLOSURE: Last night, Dissident Beer (AKA my husband, Shawn) wanted ‘one last beer’ and the only thing in the fridge was the final remaining bottle of Camelthorn’s new IPA that was delivered last week. I had been saving it to review but as you might have noticed, I’m a bit crap at the blog these […]
