by Lucy Corne | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
Last week I published a brief round-up focusing on the highs of 2015, now here are a few predictions of what might be on the horizon for the South African beer scene in 2016. The rise of the brewpub Brewpubs are awesome. They’ve really got every base covered. If...
by Lucy Corne | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog
People have been talking about the “craft beer revolution” in South Africa for a few years now. It started slowly – the odd Jack Black tap here, a bottle of Darling Slow Beer there. First it was just bearded homebrewers who were interested in ales,...
by Lucy Corne | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog
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...
by Lucy Corne | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog
This is South Africa, home of rooibos and indeed, the only place where it grows naturally (or even at all?) So the question “Can I put rooibos in my beer?” seems a silly one. The answer though, depends on what you mean by “can”. Are you...
by Lucy Corne | Aug 20, 2014 | Blog
When I set out to write about the issues with bottled beer last month, I had a point to make. You wouldn’t necessarily know it from what turned out to be the world’s longest blog post, but I did start out with a point. You see, there was so much to say...
