A craft beer shelf-life experiment with Doctrine Brewing
It’s been a gentle start to the year – the obligatory January posts rounding up last year and looking forward to 2016. But now the kids are back at school, the gloves are off and it’s time for a rant. On the agenda: the topic of beer shelf life and whether the kak beer you […]
Predictions for the South African beer scene in 2016
Last week I published a brief round-up focusing on the highs of 2015, now here are a few predictions of what might be on the horizon for the South African beer scene in 2016. The rise of the brewpub Brewpubs are awesome. They’ve really got every base covered. If you’re the kind of beer nerd who […]
Beer review: Aegir Project Hopricot IPA
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but if you were going to judge a beer by its label, you have pretty damn high expectations for Aegir Project’s latest release. Lucky then, that it’s pretty damn good beer. Hopricot is an IPA infused with whole apricots. I must say I didn’t get […]
2015 South African Beer Round-up
So, apparently it’s 2016 already. We’ve managed to get further into the future than Doc and Marty ever did, which is pretty cool, I’d say. I don’t know about you, but I saw some massive changes in the South African beer industry in 2015: quality improved, scores of new breweries opened, existing breweries upped their game […]
