by Lucy Corne | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
For the beer enthusiast, it’s one of the premier events of the year in South Africa. This year marks the 10th annual SouthYeasters Summer Festival, where members of the Cape Town homebrewing club gather together to share their brews with the public. This...
by Lucy Corne | Nov 26, 2014 | Blog
On December 6th, 2014, Cape Town will hold its second ever BJCP tasting exam. This is the exam that beer lovers, like yourself, need to take to become a certified beer judge. At the moment, we have roughly fifteen certified beer judges in the Cape, but we need more....
by Lucy Corne | 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...
by Lucy Corne | 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...
by admin | 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...
