For those who are unfamiliar with the origins of Barley&Hops, it all has to do with the Cape Town Festival of Beer. We spent five years helping run it; getting to know the breweries, the fantastic people that run them, and enjoying a whole lot of beer. We always wanted to make sure we had
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Win Tickets to The 2019 Woodstock Winter Beer Festival
The 2019 Woodstock Winter Festival returns to the Castle of Good Hope on the 27th of July. We made it to our first Festival last year and it was an absolutely cracking day. The brewers worked overtime, the beer flowed, the entertainment was great and the company was absolutely world-class. And we anticipate much of
Win Tickets to the 2019 Stellenbosch Craft Beer Festival
The Decembruary cobwebs have been finally shaken off the majority of the population. This means the breweries are back into full production and the Festivals are beginning to kick off. April gets straight into it with the Fools&Fans Festival in Greyton (win tickets here), and then the 2019 Stellenbosch Craft Beer Festival on the 13th
Win Tickets to the 2019 Fools & Fans Beer Festival
It’s been a while since we’ve given tickets away and it’s about time we rectify that. We dropped Trevor Gerntholtz, Founding Fool of the Fools & Fans Beer Festival a message. The request was simple. More people need to know about the destination Beer Festival that is the Fools & Fans and could we possibly
Friday Beer – Drifter x Migration Anything Gose Oyster Beer
We’re going to start this weeks post off with a confession. We haven’t actually tried this weeks beer but we think that’s okay. It could be terrible but if history is anything to go by it probably won’t be. It’s another collaboration from the Drifter Brewing Co, it’s the Drifter x Migration Anything Gose Oyster
5 Reasons to go to In The Shadow of Giants Cask Ale Festival
Cask Ale is a relatively new phenomenon for South Africa. They are fermented in old barrels that have previously fermented liquors such as whisky, brandy or rum. At least that’s what we thought. We’re clearly not experts on all of this so asked Stephen Peel, Head Brewer at Shackleton Brewery and organizer of In The
5 Places to Celebrate IPA Day 2018
This week is a particularly beer fueled week. To start we obviously have a full week of celebrating 5 years of Beerhouse on Long, then this weekend is the Woodstock Winter Beer Festival (have you bought your tickets yet?). Amongst all of this is one of our favourites, International IPA Day, so we thought we
Beerhouse on Long Turns 5
The beer scene in South Africa has come a long way over the last few years. One of the biggest supporters of this has been Beerhouse on Long, and given it is their 5th Birthday we thought a bit of recognition was deserved. We chatted to founderĀ Randolf Jorberg on how it all happened. Happy Birthday!
Woodstock Winter Beer Festival 2018
Come the 4th of August the Fourth annual Woodstock Winter Beer Festival will be descending upon the Castle of Good Hope. Managed by the scallywags over at the Drifter Brewing Co this Festival focuses on once off brews done specially for the Festival. We’ve talked about the “winter warmer” brews recently (Camelthorn and Woodstock), so
Tops at Spar Bierfest Partners With CBC
A couple of weeks ago we were invited along to the Cape Brewing Company in Paarl for a “big announcement.” They had been dropping less than subtle clues online for a couple of weeks so we had a pretty good idea of what we were in for. And, sure enough, the big announcement was that