Beer review: Riot Valve IPA
South Africa's IPA scene is looking up. Within the greater Cape Town area alone I can quickly count five superb American-style IPAs that do a fine job of showcasing their respective hops. And the Valve IPA from Riot is certainly one of the five. To look at, it's...
Win Tickets to My-Brew on Dec 16th
Twelve Days of Beermas might be (very almost) at its end, but that doesn't mean the season of giving is done! In fact, I have TWO sets of TWO tickets to give away for the inaugural My-Brew festival this coming Wednesday, December 16th. The event will feature around...
Win a digital & design package for your brewery worth R35k!!
If you are a start-up brew house or micro/macro brewery then this prize is for you. You’ll need to be an established business to qualify for this one… and it's a biggie. This prize is sponsored by CraftNation a craft beer enthusiast website run Regardt van der...
Winners of the 2015 SA National Homebrew Champs!
First of all, I must apologise to the South African homebrewing community for the extreme delay in posting this. The results were actually released on November 30th but it's been a manic week since then and this is the first chance I've had to post anything about...
12 Days of Beermas comp for blog subscribers only!
As a thank you for following the blog over the past year, today's 12 Days of Beermas prizes are for blog subscribers only. Here they are: 1. A signed copy of Beer Safari, posted to wherever you are in South Africa. To enter, just tweet at me: I want to win a signed...
Cape Town Co-op rules at 2015 Craft Champs
It's an underdog story truer than the movie Dodgeball itself. In the third annual South African Craft Brewers Championship, a part-time brewer who shares his 120-litre system with 14 fellow beer lovers, beat more than 100 other South African beers from breweries...
12 Days of Beermas 2015
It's that time of year again - the time when the South African beer community gets together to give you a whopping TWELVE DAYS of beery giveaways. Forget partridges in pear trees, this year the 12 Days of Beermas brings you homebrew kits and brewery trips, books...
Cider review: Sxollie Golden Delicious
While I've enjoyed many a pint of cider in my time, and have spent pleasant weekends exploring Cider Country back in my native Britain, I must admit that I've never really given too much thought to the flavours found within. Much like a lot of people I've met at...
Win tickets to the Cape Town Festival of Beer
I love the Cape Town Festival of Beer. It's probably my favourite beerfest of the year. Sure, part of that is because the festival is basically a reunion - I can see pretty much all my friends in South Africa without walking more than a couple of hundred metres....
