Win Tickets to the Cape Town Festival of Beer
It’s that time of year again. That awesome time of year, when the shops are full of Christmas goodies and the Hamilton’s Rugby Club in Green Point hosts a veritable homage to beer. The 2014 Cape Town Festival of Beer takes place from November 28th-30th and I have two tickets to give away to one […]
Beer review: Mtunzini Chilli Beer
You know what I hate? I hate it when someone has a great idea for a beer but doesn’t quite follow it through. “I just added a hint of buchu but not so much that you’d taste it“. Then why bother? “It’s an IPA but I didn’t want it to be too hoppy“. Well it […]
SAB launches “tank fresh” Castle
“When Breweries take on craft beer, they really do it in style!” – overheard at the Forries launch of SAB’s latest innovation – “Brewery Fresh Tank Beer”. It made me chuckle, but I don’t think they’re trying to “take on” craft beer – they really don’t need to, with over 90% of the beer market […]
Are there too many beerfests in South Africa?
A couple of months ago I was at the Jo’burg Festival of Beer. It was the Sunday session and I loved it – both from a beer geek point of view and from a ‘mum wth a baby at a beerfest’ point of view. It was chilled, it was quiet, it was easy to get […]
