Beer festival celebrates local brewers

The festival will be returning for a second year, to Pirates Sports Club in Greenside.

The two-day festival, which first established itself in Cape Town as the largest Festival of Beer in the southern hemisphere, promises to be bigger and better than ever before. With up to 160 beers on show from local and international brewers, including some exciting new faces in the brewing industry, beer lovers will be spoilt for choice.

Apart from offering a wide variety of beers to sample, the festival will also have home brewing demonstrations, food and beer pairings, guided beer tours, a selection of delicious food stalls, great music and sport on TV screens. Brewers exhibiting at the Joburg Festival of Beer 2014 include Brewhogs, Swagga Beer, Stellenbrau and Soweto Gold. With beer brewed by female brewmaster, Apiwe Nxusani, Brewhogs is based in Kyalami and produces 32 000 litres of natural and preservative free beer per month including a Red Lager and Pilsener. Johannesburg-based brewers Swagga Beer produce premium quality hand-crafted beers such as their Swagga Porter, Red, Blonde and IPA.

Having just won the 2014 Global Craft Beer Award for best lager, Stellenbrau have shot into the global limelight for superb beer.

The brewery, based in Stellenbosch, produces beers such as their Craven Craft Lager, Alumni Ale and Governors Red Lager.

Having opened this year, Soweto Gold is situated in the tourist-popular area of Orlando West, and is referred to as “the first regional township-branded craft beer targeting the aspiring black middle class”. Beers include the Soweto Gold Lager, Weiss Gold and the Lady Gold.

Early bird tickets are R150, which includes a beer glass, and are available from Webtickets.

For table bookings please contact info@capetownfestivalofbeer.co.za.

Details: www.joburgfestivalofbeer.co.za, www.webtickets.co.za