Ahh Thailand, with temperatures in the mid 30’s and humidity at 90%, it’s the perfect place for an ice cold lager! What about craft beer? Well, you’re gonna struggle to find any. Listen to find out why.
I mash in with Andre at Beerhouse On Long before the launch of Durban Poison Cannabis Lager. We chat about punk rocking, maris otter, marijuana and beer.
Murray and I don’t see each other as much as we would both like to, so we decided to grab a sneaky beer at the new Gardens Collectors Club in Cape Town. We drank the new BeerLoveTour beers from Devil’s Peak, and discussed what it’s like to brew with them. Thank you for the picture
Cask Beer is having a resurgence in Cape Town, and leading that cause is Stephen from Shackleton Brewery. We chat to him about successful beer events, making a kölsch beer and his collab beer with Cameron from Atlantic Storm Brewing Co. What a time to be alive!
The League of Beers has been delivering craft beers all over South Africa for the past six years. We celebrate by drinking all the beers from their monthly case, which happen to be IPA’s. Not a bad way to celebrate a birthday!
We drink the latest collaboration beer from two Cape Town breweries. This thick and boozy Imperial Stout has incorporated honey selected yeast, black honey coffee, lactose and molasses. Sitting at 11,5% it’s best to drink around a roaring fire… naked.
I meet up with Fraser Crighton, Founder and head brewer of Fraser’s Folly. A Brit abroad who decided to start a brewery because he got ‘gatvol’ with the beer variety in SA. We chatted two days before the inaugural On Tap at the TIP beer Festival.
Kevin Wood started Darling in 2010 after accidentally drinking a home-brewed beer in a remote African town. Since then, the business has gone through highs and lows, whilst producing some of the countries most iconic beers. We also talk about Devils Peak purchasing the countries largest independent tap and keg distribution. Kevin Wood Picture:
Big breweries are buying up smaller breweries, distribution networks are being bought out and the smaller craft guys will be left to die. Or will they? We drink and discuss the top London breweries, Beavertown, Camden Town and Fourpure, who’ve all sold a percentage to Big Beer.
In South Africa, you can purchase wine in a grocery store, but not beer. It’s been this way for quite a while, and nothing has been done about it, until now. Shawn and Lucy are leading the campaign to fight for equal rights in beer. Sign the petition at letusbuybeer.com
