May 2012
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May 28th
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Win one of two Good Fellas Memberships with SAB...
Drunk driving needlessly costs the lives of hundreds of South Africans on our roads every year. And every year, various companies try to create the campaign that will get the message through our skulls that driving drunk is one of the stupidest things you can do. Nothing totally works, of course - SA still has one of the world’s most prolific drink-driving problems - but if they make any...
May 27th
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The Keg King Open Tap
My apologies to Mark and Martin from Keg King for how criminally late this post is. Thanks for putting up with me. A little over six weeks ago, at Cape Town’s German Club, a little bit of pandemonium broke loose. Ten breweries, some small, some large, some teetering on the verge of collapse, pledged over 40 kegs of beer to everyone’s favourite portable party merchants, Keg King....
May 16th
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The Start of a New Craft Beer Project
This past Saturday, Banana Jam Cafe was host to the first iteration of the Craft Beer Project, a new alliance between brewers and beer lovers poised to fill the hole that We Love Real Beer left with its seeming dissolution half a year ago. Unlike We Love Real Beer’s gatherings, the Craft Beer Project has begun somewhat smaller; trading graphic design and branded glass bombast for...
May 8th
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Oh God I'm on radio again
Starting tonight I will be starting guest appearances on Gary Cool’s Rock Dimension onĀ 2OceansVibe Radio, to talk about beer and ramble on about all things Cape beer-related. I’ll be on from 21h30 or so to stutter uncontrollably and attempt to relay some semblance of news about this weekend’s local beer festivals and some other beer stuff. The rationale behind this is that...
May 2nd