The Carthorse Homebrewers Club, the exclusive home-brewers club of Cape Town. We finally get together talk about winning gold in the PowWow competition for our Belgian Dubbel. And what is the perfect ambient sniffing range?

The Clarens Beer Fest is probably the most popular beer event in South Africa and a pilgrimage every beer lover must take. I walked around with Steve from Shackletons Brewery, and tried a few of the beers on offer. What a great fest!

Liam is an old stalwart in the local craft beer movement and now the new Saggy Stone head brewer. He also started his beer journey around the same time as yours truly. We talk about their experimental beers, as well as collab brews, and how things are changing in the beer industry.

It would surprise you to learn that Hong Kong is a honeypot for craft beer. Well, it did for me at least. The city has hundreds of hip drinking spots according to my brother, who was kind enough to bring me back some super interesting beers.

2018 was a strange year. While some folk had unique and memorable highlights, the industry as a whole seemed to slump onto its bar stool. That is, if you were lucky enough to find a bar stool!

The Cape Town Festival of Beer has been running for 9 years, and Martin Tucker has learnt a fair bit since he started in 2009. We discuss latest news about Devils Peak Brewery and drink some fantastic beers!    

Eben and Paul from Buurman Brouwerke are two of the nicest guys you’ll meet in the brewing scene. They also make delicious beer! Listen to find out what makes their story a success.  

Ross is the owner and founder of one of South Africa’s oldest and best known microbreweries. We look at the past 11 years, skill sets need to start a brewery, and working with Heineken.  

So you can smell hoppy beer eh? But can you smell a lager? We put our noses and tastebuds to the test to see if we could identify six well known lagers. We failed. Doh!

Moonshine? Well, it’s not exactly what you have in mind. Think sweet, honey, cinnamon and nutmeg flavours, paired with an Amber Weiss… Wait?! What?!