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...
2013 Cape Town Festival of Beer
Beer boffins and festival fans turned out in their droves again this year for the fourth annual Cape Town Festival of Beer – at least on the Saturday. Friday was, as ever, the domain of the true beer geeks (and the lucky few who don’t have to work on weekdays)...
Beer 101 – staff training session
Know your wine but baffled about beer? As craft beer continues to sweep South Africa, bars and restaurants are bulking up their beer lists, offering more hops, more variety, and more options for food pairings. And as beer gets bigger, the beer consumer becomes more...
Five ways to piss off a beer snob
If you’re in any way interested in the South African beer scene, it can’t have escaped your notice that we are living in an age of abundant festivals. For a while it seemed that hardly a weekend could go by when there wasn’t a beer event of some sort taking place....
Contract Brewing in South Africa
If you’re an uber beer nerd, you might have laughed raucously over a video recently doing the rounds, focusing on a group of beer snobs making increasingly douchebag-like comments about the beers they’re tasting. I can call them this because I too am a beer douche....
Five strictly South African beers
I was going to go down the braai route for the September 24th public holiday, offering beer ‘n’ braai food pairings and asking for your favourite beers to sip with skilpadjies, boerewors and burgers. Then I remembered that September 24th is actually Heritage Day,...
Talk like a pirate, drink like a pirate
If ye, like me, be a Pastafarian, ye’ll be knowing that Septembarrrrr 19th be a special day in the log book. It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, when we honour our fallen seafarin’ mateys an’ the efforts they made t’ slow down global warrrming. By way o’...
