Friday beers: Aegir Project in Noordhoek
Friday Beers is back! Or should that be are back? Either way, here we are. Of course, the tradition of drinking Friday beers never went anywhere - I'm pretty sure you've been partaking pretty much every Friday since I published my last suggestion a little over a...
Beer review: Jack Black Lumberjack Amber Ale
It has been a long, long time since I wrote a review on this blog. The last one was for the annual Tiny Keg festive mixed pack back in December, and that was only the second review I wrote in the whole of 2022. So it seems somehow fitting that I am making a beer...
Celebrating beer at the 10th Capital Craft Beer Festival
Recently I have been feeling a little glum about the whole South African beer scene. Although there are a few shining star breweries that are experimenting, and in general, beer quality has improved, the industry as a whole has seemed a bit stagnant of late. There...
Beer for elephants: a visit to Okavango Craft Brewery in Botswana
Maun is known by its residents as ‘Dusty Donkey Town’, and on the day that Okavango Craft Brewery had its unofficial (re)launch party, it quickly became evident why. I’m not quite sure why I felt it necessary or smart to walk the 5km from my hotel to the brewery on...
Winners of the 2023 African Beer Cup
It's been so long since I wrote anything on this blog, I'm surprised I can even remember my login details. (I jest of course - I can't remember my login details for anything. Luckily, Google can). The main reason I just don't find time to blog in the first half of...
Winners of the 2022 South African Beer Awards
The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed that when I posted the voting form for this year's South African Beer Awards, I pledged to have the results published a day after voting closed, hangover permitting. Voting closed on 21 December. Let's just say it's been...
Beer review: Tiny Keg Mixed Six-Pack
This post is part beer review and part (very) last-minute Christmas present idea. Every year, around this time, mobile canning company Tiny Keg releases a limited edition six-pack featuring once-off beers from brewers around South Africa. The brewers fly (or drive)...
Vote in the 2022 South African Beer Awards
What a year 2022 has been. People got to travel again; they got to comfortably cough in public again. The only thing we had to go back to the car for as we set foot through the doors of Pick n Pay was our reusable shopping bags and not our masks as well. We all...
