14 reasons to go to the 2014 SouthYeasters Summer Festival
Cape Town’s homebrewing club continues to blossom and there’s no more obvious way to see the growth of the club than at the annual Summer Festival. It started with a dozen people in Boston Breweries’ former tasting room at the brewery. It took over the courtyard...
Beer and cheese – the perfect match
It’s official. Beer goes better with cheese than wine does. I never doubted it of course, but after two sessions of Grape vs Grain at the Cheese Festival, the people have spoken. And on both occasions they chose beer over wine. Here’s a quick recap for those of you...
Battle of the Beerfests
It’s been quite a quiet start to the year, beerfest-wise. But while there haven’t been back-to-back events every weekend, two of the country’s larger festivals have already taken place. I did a write-up of the Clarens Craft Beer Festival over on the League of Beers...
Three Skulls Relaunches as a contract brewery
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Duvel Tripel Hop 2014
My dad is visiting at the moment and has been dragged by his rubber arm to a host of beer events around Cape Town. “So what’s happening tonight?” he asked, as we headed for Beerhouse on Long. “Well, there’s this Belgian beer that is made with three hops, and each...
Beer and chocolate pairing
I’m not particularly fond of Valentine’s Day, but I can’t help noticing that every other blog, website, magazine or indeed pamphlet that gets shoved through my letterbox seems to be honouring the day, so I’m jumping on that romantic bandwagon as well. I’ve recently...
South African Alestars
Earlier this month I had an idea (well actually, like many of my blog posts and articles, it was hubby that had the idea, but you don’t need to know that…). The idea was to honour some of the people that are going above and beyond to further the craft beer...
My 2014 beer bucket list
It’s that time of year again – the gym is packed, McDonald’s is empty and everyone’s making promises they know they can’t keep – eating more celery, doing more work, starting a new hobby or, dare I say it, drinking less beer. I’ve decided to follow the example set...
2013: A year of beer reviewed
Well, 2013 was a huge year for beer in South Africa. Around 15-20 new breweries popped up (who can keep count these days?), festivals were abundant, imports boomed and basically, the whole country went beer mad. I missed out on a few fests due to being pregnant...