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NOVEMBER Homebrewer’s Christmas Bash BrewCraft Centurion | 10:00am – 4:00pm All the brewers get together to swap ideas and taste each other’s homebrew. All proceeds collected on the day go to the 10 rhino babies at the Rhino Orphanage that BrewCraft has adopted. Free entry! 03 FOR MORE INFO Durban Home Brewers facebook.com/durbanhomebrewers East Coast Brewers (KZN) facebook.com/groups/eastcoastbrewers Eden Brewers (Garden Route) facebook.com/edenbrewers Hartbeespoort Brewers facebook.com/groups/hartbeespoortbrewers Helderberg Brewers facebook.com/groups/helderberghomebrew SouthYeasters (Cape Town) southyeasters.co.za Wort Hogs (Gauteng/North West) worthogbrewers.co.za Yeastern Cape Brew Club facebook.com/yeasterncape Wort Hog Brewers Johannesburg Chapter Schwabinger Stuben, Ferndale | 7:00pm Guest brewer and talks TBC. Members R130, guests R150. 07 Yeastern Cape Brew Club German Club, Lorraine, Port Elizabeth | 7:00pm Monthly club meeting. 08 Southyeasters Beerhouse, Cape Town | 6:30pm People's choice hoppy beer competition: any hop- forward style beer will be allowed, with great prizes up for grabs. 14 Helderberg Homebrewers Club Triggerfish, Strand | 6:00pm Talk on brewing an IPA plus dry hopped blonde competition. Free for first timers, R50 for everyone else. 21 Worthog Brewers East Rand (WortEast) Werners Pub and Bistro, Bedfordview, Johannesburg | 6:30pm Details for the meeting will be announced on the Worthogs website and Facebook page. Meeting includes dinner and a beer, a talk on a brewing topic, and league tasting. Bring your beers along. 29 Would you like to see your event on our schedule? Submit the details to lucy@ontapmag.co.za It’s Oktoberfest season, so we thought we’d give you a helping hand in producing your own ‘fest beer. Spilhaus Märzen Lager won a gold medal at this year’s Craft Brewers Powwow and a silver in the 2017 National Beer Trophy, so we asked founder Nicholas Walker to spill his brewing secrets… Nuts & bolts Batch Size: 50L Estimated OG: 1.056 Estimated FG: 1.013 Estimated ABV: 5.5 % Boil time: 60 minutes Bitterness: 19 IBU Estimated colour: 23 EBC Mash ingredients Mash in at 63-64°C for 60min Vienna malt 10kg Cara Amber malt 1.5kg Cara Munich II malt 1kg Boil ingredients Magnum [12.0 %] 32g – 60min Saaz [3.1%] 20g – 5min Ferment ingredients SafLager W34/70 Brewer’s tips The trick to this beer is to ensure you get a complex malt character without making the beer too sweet and ensuring a medium and not full bodied mouthfeel. The best way to ensure this is by having a low mash temperature. Additionally, do not underestimate the power of lagering a beer. Once you have kegged or bottled your delicious looking deep amber beer, stick it in the fridge for at least a month. If you don’t have the equipment to hold your fermentation at lager temperatures, don’t stress. Brew this beer over the cold winter months and ferment it at room temperature. The final beer will have slightly more fruity characters, but those should smooth out over time if you are patient enough. BREW-IT-YOURSELF: Spilhaus Brewery Märzen Lager Spilhaus Märzen is available at select bottle stores in Cape Town, including Roeland Liquors and Liquor City Claremont, or try it on tap at The Moveable Feast on Kloof Nek Road. WHERE CAN I FIND SOME? ontapmag.co.za | Spring 2018 | 65