Craft Brewers Powwow in Cape Town (Sponsored Post)
Once upon a time, the only beer events in Cape Town were trips to your local with a few friends. Not that there’s anything wrong with that of course, but if you wanted a real beer experience, wanted to actually learn something about the beer, you were out of luck. Beer festivals started to pop […]
Ten things you (probably) didn’t know about the Reinheitsgebot
April 23rd marks the 500th anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot. Better known as the ‘German Purity Law’, the Reinheitsgebot is a medieval bit of legislation that stated only water, hops and barley could be used in brewing. Since then the rules have been bent and reshaped a little, but in Germany an ingredient-related beer law remains […]
The Beer Safari Continues: Mountain Brewing Company
This is a random way to start a blog post on beer, but I love print publishing. I love flicking through the pages of a magazine. I love the smell of books. I love seeing words I’ve written printed on a real page. But I also understand the limitation of print. Newspapers specialise in yesterday’s […]
Beer Review: Duvel Tripel Hop 2016 – HBC 291
It’s that time of year again. The time when beer nerds congregate to discover which hop the Duvel brewers have decided to add to this year’s Tripel Hop vintage. Standard Duvel uses a combination of Styrian Golding and Saaz, but each year a special edition of the brew is released – it’s a percentage point […]
