Craft Beer Tasting at the 12 Apostles
It's not an exaggeration to say that over the past five years, the craft beer scene in South Africa has exploded. Pints of ale have moved from the hands of bearded homebrewers to the hands of bearded hipsters and then into the hands of the not-necessarily-bearded...
Beer Review: Innis & Gunn
If you're a beer fan - and the fact that you're reading this blog suggests that you probably are - you might well have already tasted the trio of Innis & Gunn beers that recently hit South African shores. Since arriving the beers have launched with a flourish,...
Winter specials at Den Anker
As winter inches closer, beer geeks' fridges are being emptied of pilsners and witbiers then restocked with Russian imperial stouts, imperial IPAs and Belgian dubbels. If you're in Cape Town there are plenty of the latter at Den Anker, The Waterfront institution is...
Apple and Urbock Crumble
Beer and dessert can be a superb match - and it's not just me that thinks so. Even Shakespeare wrote about 'cakes and ale' in the same sentence and if that's not a recommendation for drinking a pint with your pud, then I don't know what is. (Well OK, a half-pint -...
Restaurant Review: Tiger’s Milk, Muizenberg
Cnr Beach & Sidmouth Rds, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Tel: 021 788 1860. tigersmilk.co.za. Mains R75-180. 500ml South African draught craft beer R35-47 Finally, the seafront strip in Muizenberg is getting some appealing eating - and drinking - options. Tiger's Milk...
Five ways to get your man to drink craft beer
Sometimes I get a bit fed up with the whole 'girls don't drink beer' thing. How often do you read guff like 'ladies will love our fruit-based ciders' or 'bring the whole family to our beer fest - we are serving wine for the wives' or maybe see a photo of...
Recipe: Carrot and citrus salad with weissbier dressing
One of the things I'm always keen to do is to make people realise that beer can be a delicate beverage; that it's not just something to drink with a burger or a plate of fish and chips. So I was thrilled when Tanja Kruger, head chef at Majeka House's Makaron,...
Beer review: Impala (cassava beer)
To look at this beer, you'd never know that its main ingredient is a "starchy tuberous root" (to quote Wikipedia) Impala, launched in 2011, was the world's first commercial beer brewed with cassava. Produced by Cervejas de Moçambique, the Mozambican arm of...
Recipe: Beer and bacon risotto
In an ongoing crusade to prove to people that beer goes with food just as well as even better than wine does, the blog will now feature recipes - some paired with beer, some cooked with beer, some paired and cooked with beer and all to be prepared with a beer in...
