Rant 10
Some random beer-related thoughts
When I first started blogging, I wondered if there was really enough material to sustain a blog focused solely on the South African craft beer scene. Here’s a spoiler: there is. For the past year I’ve had this irritating checklist of blog post ideas saved in my phone, but somehow I never seem to get […]
Five ways to get your man to drink craft beer
Sometimes I get a bit fed up with the whole ‘girls don’t drink beer’ thing. How often do you read guff like ‘ladies will love our fruit-based ciders’ or ‘bring the whole family to our beer fest – we are serving wine for the wives’ or maybe see a photo of some skinny-waisted buxom-boobed girl promoting beer […]
Craft beer and the cold chain
Imagine if you brewed a beer, left it on a shelf for four months and just remembered it now? Imagine if the shelf in question was in a working kitchen, with temperatures rising over 35C? And imagine if said beer was unfiltered and unpasteurised? There are those who believe that, since the cold chain has […]
Bottling South African craft beer – what’s going wrong?
I’ve been meaning to get around to writing this post for weeks. Probably even months. There’s so much to be said, it’s tough to know where to start, so I’m just going to ramble on and ask you to join in. Grab yourself a cold one, for you could be here for a while. Here’s the basic problem – […]