Lakeside Beerworks
The list of microbreweries in South Africa is constantly expanding, but as one of the Western Cape’s latest breweries gathers momentum, it’s goodbye to another much-loved player on the Cape Town scene. Lakeside Beerworks officially launched at the SouthYeasters Summer Festival in April 2013, their hefe weiss claiming the top spot in the people’s choice competition. After a […]
Beer in the can
OK, just so’s we’re clear, the title of this piece does not refer to drinking beer on the toilet. (Note to self: I do like this as an idea – add to blog post schedule). It does of course refer to the recent debate on whether craft beer is better stored in/served from a bottle […]
Karoo Brew gets new brewers
t was Route 62’s first microbrewery, but we haven’t heard much about Karoo Brew of late. The small brewing setup in Montagu has changed hands a couple of times in recent years and is now under new brewagement. We dropped by The Mystic Tin – a restaurant/guest house with a tiny brewery tucked away in the grounds […]
South African homebrewing has a history
Beer is everywhere right now. You can’t move for magazine pieces on craft beer, homebrewing supply shops are on the increase, bar owners are having to buy extra large sheets of paper in order to fit their ever-expanding beer menus on one page. People are even writingreally awesome books about it. It’s easy to think […]
