South African National Homebrew Champs

South African National Homebrew Champs

by | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog

With the second annual Craft Brewers Championship underway, I’ve had a few folks asking ‘but what about me, I’m a homebrewer – can I enter?’. The answer is no, you can’t. But why would you need to enter? You have your own...
2014 Triggerfish Open – homebrewing contest

2014 Triggerfish Open – homebrewing contest

by | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog

One of the main criticisms of the BJCP is that it stifles creativity. People complain that in order to enter competitions, they have to brew “inside the box”, sticking to specified style guidelines rather than chucking in whatever malt, hops and yeast they...
14 reasons to go to the 2014 SouthYeasters Summer Festival

14 reasons to go to the 2014 SouthYeasters Summer Festival

by | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog

Cape Town’s homebrewing club continues to blossom and there’s no more obvious way to see the growth of the club than at the annual Summer Festival. It started with a dozen people in Boston Breweries’ former tasting room at the brewery. It took over the courtyard...
How to get started in homebrewing

How to get started in homebrewing

by | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog

Birds do it (women that is), beards do it, even people that aren’t weird do it. So in honour of International Beer Day I present to you a quick Q&A on how to get started in South Africa’s most happening hobby – homebrewing. Why would I want to brew my own beer? Do...

South African homebrewing has a history

by | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog

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...
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