Beer Review: Brauhaus am Damm Dunkel
Well I’ll tell you one thing – it’s been a fair while since I’ve used the four-and-a-half hop image in a review. This makes me both happy and sad – happy because, well, great beer makes me happy; sad because it’s not a beer I can easily get in Cape Town. At last week’s National […]
Winners of the 2017 South African National Beer Trophy
Sixty-four breweries, 199 beers, 22 gold medals, 62 silver, one massive party and countless hangovers. This is how the third annual South African National Beer Trophy panned out. The overall prize for best beer in show went to Stellenbosch Brewing Company for their Hoenderhok Bock, which also took home the Best Amber Beer prize. Three […]
South African microbreweries win at International Beer Challenge
After the last post I wrote, I thought it was about time for some good news. There is plenty of beery good news out there, and this is some of the best, I reckon. Three South African microbreweries have won medals at the 2017 International Beer Challenge (IBC), based in London. More than 700 beers […]
Beer Review: Damnation Brewing Co. Lone Wolf APA
Damnation Brewing Co. began life at the Brewers Co-op and have since branched out into brewing larger batches under contract in Cape Town. As one fellow Twittererer put it, “They win at labels” – but how is the beer behind the slightly scary face(s)? I must say I found this beer a bit of a […]