It’s great to be able to tell your friends you brew your own beer, but it gets even better when you can tell them to pour themselves a beer from the tap in your bar. There comes a time for every homebrewer when they start investigating having the ability to serve their homebrew from a tap just like they do in the bars, that started quite early for me, it happened when I just made the switch to all grain → Read More
Cape Town’s newest microbrewery, Devil’s Peak Brewing Company, has revealed the label for one of their first beer that will go on sale in bottles soon. Devil’s Peak Brewing Company has revealed the label for their First Light Golder Ale which will go on sale soon with their Kings Blockhouse IPA and Woodhead Amber Ale soon.
A while ago Brewers & Union announced that they plan on start selling home brewing kits, at the time it was unknown as to what kits they will be selling. Later on Brewers & Union revealed that the kits they plan to sell will be all-grain home brewing kits from Brookly Brew Shop. Brewers & Union has now announced that they have received stock of the Brookly Brew Shop Beer Making Kits. Orders can be placed via email to gemma@gabrielcollective.com and can → Read More
Last year Brewers & Union announced that they are planning on selling Home Beer Making Kits, at the time it was unknown as to whether they would produce their own kits based off their own brand or import kits, but news has just surfaced about their Home Beer Making Kits. In a newsletter the Micro Brewery announced that they will be selling Beer Making Kits from Brooklyn Brew Shop, however they will only have a limited amount available. The Brooklyn Brew → Read More
WARNING: Caustic Soda (Sodium Hydroxide or NaOH) is a dangerous chemical and can cause serious injuries when not handled correctly. Always take precaution and wear protection like gloves and glasses when handling Caustic Soda. Never add water to Caustic Soda crystals, always the other way around. Here in South Africa home brewers are very limited to cleaning and sanitizing agents, unlike our US counterparts we do not have access to the home brew chemical Starsan or to other specialised cleaning → Read More
The annual Clarens Craft Beer Festival returns after its much successful first festival in 2011, and this year organisers are promising an even better festival. The 2012 Clarens Craft Beer Festival will take place on Saturday 25 February 2012, and will showcase over 50 beers and ciders from some of the best craft breweries South Africa has to offer. The festival will take place in the small village town of Clarens in the Free State and will include breweries such → Read More
I recently had to retire my Coleman Extreme 36 Quart Mash Tun due to the fact that summer is here and that means I will be needing my cooler more often for when we go away, and without wanting to spend a lot of money on a new Coleman Extreme cooler I decided to opt for a cheaper smaller cooler to serve as my new Mash Tun seeing as I do not brew batches bigger than 20L. Everything worked out → Read More
Cape Town based micro brewery Boston Breweries will for a limited time make available their Whale Tale Ale in 500ml bottles. Whale Tale Ale, currently available in 340ml bottles and on draught tap at certain outlets, will be joined by a new 500ml bottle that will available for a limited time through the Boston Breweries website. The new Whale Tale Ale bottles comes in cases of 10 and will set you back R100 per case, there is also a R60 → Read More
The past weekend the Cape Town Festival of Beer took place, the festival is South Africa’s biggest beer festival and this year it did not disappoint with its selection of over 100 beers, great food and music. Freelance travel and beer writer, Lucy Corne, attended the Cape Town Festival of Beer with one mission, to taste and review all 100 beers in just 3 days. Lucy did the reviews in very interactive way and by means of social networking site → Read More
To be honest, us homebrewers drink a lot of beer, I mean how can we not, it enables us to brew every other weekend. However not all the beer we drink are homebrew, I for one enjoy having a Darling Slow Beer, Boston Whale Tale Ale or Camelthorn Red Ale Craft Beer every now and then, and luckily I can get these beers in my area easily through services like eBooze. The downside is Craft Beer is quite expensive, coming → Read More