Seven South African breweries with a fireplace

Every year, around this time, the food blogs are full of tips on where to dine beside a fireplace. So this year I thought I’d get a piece of the fireplace pie. This is my list of place in South Africa where you can watch a beer being brewed – then drink a pint by the fire. I try to keep this blog as un-Cape as possible (I know how it pisses off you northern folk when blogs go on and on about where to drink in Cape Town) but this time around I was struggling to think of many spots up-country – I suppose that’s because our weather is largely crapper than yours…

cockpit brewhouse

Cockpit does an awesome pie to keep winter at bay – salad optional

I could have written a review for each brewery, a run-down of the food, the ambience, the beer menu. But that’s what my restaurant review page is for. And I know that this is the Twitter generation and you all have the attention span of a small child, so instead I’ve gone with a five-word suggestion of what else to do at each brewery to stay warm this winter…

1. Wild Clover Brewery

Drain a smoky Irish porter

2. Triggerfish

Hit the high ABV brews.

3. Honingklip Brewery

Belgian beers keep you warm.

4. Birkenhead Brewery

Try the Pride – English ale

anvil ale house

Snuggle up with an oatmeal stout at Anvil Ale House, Dullstroom

5. Cockpit Brewhouse

Ask about Andre’s extreme beers…

6. Anvil Ale House

Pint of Black Anvil stout.

7. Hops Hollow Brew Pub

Hopefully the beer has improved!

 

I’m sure I’ve missed a few cosy breweries – if you know of one with a fireplace, tell us about it below. And don’t forget to include a five word reason to visit this winter.

6 Comments

  1. Bronwyn Engelbrecht

    The Bierfassl in Nottingham Road, KZN, serves a selection of Nottingham Road Breweries beers around a lovely fireplace – http://www.bierfassl.co.za/

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    • Lucy Corne

      Thanks Bronwyn…how would you sum it up in five words? Pickled Pig Porter and eisbein…???

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      • Bronwyn Engelbrecht

        Good Austrian food and Tipsy Tiger IPA!
        I enjoyed lounging on the couches around the fireplace, enjoying a bottle of Paulaner, Erdinger or Brewers & Union in between pints of porter and ale. Highly recommend the eisbein to soak up the beer!

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  2. Marius De Beer

    Ah…
    My top 3 in the top 3.
    Well done, Lucy.

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  3. John Morrow

    The Bierfassl is great, but it’s up the road from our brewery (Notties). For a true Notties experience, come to the Boar’s Head pub at Rawdons Hotel next to the brewery for all our beers and huge log fires in the misty KZN Midlands!! The Porter is the killer!!

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    • Lucy Corne

      John – I can’t believe I forgot Notties!!

      Pickled Pig by the fire!

      Reply

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