We spent a day out at Old Potters Brewhouse recently. A fantastic place in Greyton and the driving force behind the upcoming Fools and Fans Beer Festival. The Festival is taking place on the 7th of April and will feature over 15 breweries, homebrew judging, wine and gin stalls, food stalls and live music. All-in-all
Friday Beer: Old Potters Brewhouse “Plaas Japie” Saison
The type of brewery we are featuring this week is one we love to write about. It’s an enthusiastic, relatively young brewery who is producing great beers and working hard to make sure people know about them. Based in Greyton we are of course talking about the Old Potters Brewhouse. We’ve spent a fair bit
Hop Tour 2018 Report
Spoiler: you can skip the whole read and head straight to the video at the bottom. We were fortunate enough to get ourselves onto the 3rd Annual Hop Tour to the SAB Hop Farms in George. Organized by Troye May of Hashtag Beertime, we joined 8 other Hop Heads. We had guys from Shackleton, Lakeside,
Win Beer Swag with Urban Brewing Co in March
Welcome to March! February ended before it seemingly even began, we somehow picked up a new president, a new parliament and saw the Rand drop below R12 to the dollar. That’s probably worth raising a beer to. Hell, at less than R12 to the dollar, raise two! And now, you get to win beer swag
Friday Beer: Helderberg Breweries Sultana Wheat Ale
The purpose of the Featured Friday Beer is to introduce you to a beer that you may otherwise overlook on the shelf. Something we have enjoyed and something we think you would enjoy. The beer we originally thought about for this week unfortunately just did not do it for us. So, we swiftly poured it
Friday Beer: Urban Brewing Co Monkey’s Paw Pilsner
We initially got hold of the guys at Urban Brewing Co to Feature their Oktoberfest Lager, a beer that won best Lager at the 2017 Cape Town Festival of Beer. The bad news, unfortunately there is one lonely bottle left (we’re not joking). The Good news, they were in fact brewing this very beer when
Friday Beer: Damnation Brewing Co Pilsner
A really quick beer fact to kick things off. Basically, there are two types of beer – Lagers and Ales. The yeasts and temperatures used during fermentation is what separates them. Within these two types of beer you have an ever growing number of styles. At the moment, according to the official BJCP (Beer Judging
Friday Beer: Hoptown BMC Lager
Welcome to February, bet you didn’t see that coming. We’re also pretty sure you didn’t expect to come here this week and find that we had actually followed through and come to the party with a Lager. Specifically the Hoptown BMC Lager, a “rich, characterful, pale lager, with considerable malt and hop character and a
2nd Devil’s Peak Blockhouse Beer Ride Report
With some howling winds, 35 brave individuals met at The Gear Change to plot their attack on the Blockhouse. Not because they wanted to get their best times on Strava but because they had seen three cooler boxes topped to the brim with ice cold Devil’s Peak IPA and Lager. Just after 6pm when we
Friday Beer: The Italian Job Forza IPA
One of the greatest aspects of craft beer are the stories behind it. You know, the classic “we started brewing in a garage at moms place” type scenario. With this in mind it was very pleasant to start digging into the story behind The Italian Job brewery and their Forza IPA. We’ve been through several