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, a time to celebrate this fine country’s varied cultures and traditions and […]
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’ celebratin’ this grog fest, I be bringin’ ye not only […]
If beer festivals were wine festivals…
South Africa’s beer culture is young. It is not a nation that’s new to drinking beer by any means, but savouring beer, appreciating beer as something other than a beverage to glug with the cricket or to douse the summer heat – this is still a fairly new concept to a lot of people. And why wouldn’t it be? […]
Free beer on the first Friday of every month
The first time I wrote about SAB’s monthly horse-drawn beer delivery, I was a mere bystander in the proceedings. In fact I turned up late and just managed to see a horse’s ass disappearing along Newlands Avenue as I sat down to my wood-fired pizza at Forries. Well the initiative is still going strong and this […]
