March 2012
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Tasting Notes: Porcupine Quill, Botha's Hill, KZN
Above three images from Porcupine Quill website
Porcupine Quill Brewery in Botha’s Hill, KwaZulu-Natal is one of South African craft beer’s hidden players. Tucked away in a sleepy corner of the Valley of 1000 Hills, Quill’s is an artisan’s paradise, comprising a deli, bakery and brewery, all fastidiously local-minded.
Quill’s range of eleven beers, under three...
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Photos: Valley Brewery, Kommetjie
Metalworker Glenn Adams leads a double life. Round the front of his factory in a patched-up Kommetjie industrial park, he operates an expertly-built microbrewery. An elegant setup of stainless steel, his preferred metallic medium, Valley Brewery is one in a series of new Western Cape microbreweries popping up in the nooks of South Africa’s most craft-crazy province.
While his London Ale...
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Three black beers: drinks for watching Natal lose...
Rugby season has started again. Exciting! That means that it’s time for me to have childish temper tantrums, swear at the TV and weep in submission as my beloved Sharks conspire yet again to concede 20 handling errors every match away from King’s Park.
Our opening two matches of the season provided losses against the Bulls and Stormers so utterly pathetic that I spent the rest of...
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Good bottle stores #1: CQ Tops
On Friday night, for reasons numerous and uninteresting, I found myself wandering around Green Point’s Cape Quarter, a wonderfully esoteric and weirdly upmarket shopping plaza. It was Argus weekend and my parents were in town. We, along with a group of 15 of my father’s cycling teammates and their wives, were looking for a restaurant that would accommodate a throng of tired...
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Lithuanian court quashes Carlsberg strike by... →
In an extraordinary piece of legal wrangling, a Lithuanian court has quashed a strike at a Carlsberg brewery in the small city of Klaipeda by ruling beer brewing as “vitally essential” to everyday life.
Carlsberg asked the court to stop workers striking during its “high season”, by classifying the production of beer as of vital importance.
The court obliged, placing...
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Lately...
Seeing as I haven’t posted anything new for 10 days, I thought I’d pop in and explain the absence. In between starting a promising new internship at Paperight, a Shuttleworth Foundation-funded online book distribution start-up, finishing My First Big Feature for Getaway, and naming strays on my road “Cat Lambie”, “Catrick Swayze” and other variations on that...
