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IN BRIEF The Craft Brewers Association of South Africa (CBASA) AGM will be held on 29 February at At Hops End in Modderfontein, Gauteng. Proceedings will kick off at 10am and are open to anyone in the industry, regardless of whether they are a current member of CBASA or not. Cape brewers can 'virtually' attend at Afro Caribbean Brewing Co., where there will be a live link to the main meeting. La Colombe, recently crowned South Africa’s best restaurant at the Eat Out awards, now features a bespoke beer on its pairing menu. The beer, a saison, was brewed at Afro Caribbean Brewing Company and designed especially to pair with the restaurant’s bread course. La Colombe expanded its beer menu last year and began to feature occasional beer pairings alongside the more familiar wine pairings on the menu. Online entries for the 2020 African Beer Cup are now open. Commercial breweries from any African country are eligible to enter. Beer submissions take place in April 2020, with judging happening in both Cape Town and Johannesburg in April and May. Winners are announced at the annual Craft Brewers Powwow on May 16. Breweries can register their beers at africanbeercup.com. Full details are also available on the website. Throughout the latter half of 2019, Darling released a series of new takes on their popular Bone Crusher witbier. Following on from the dry hopped, marula and cherry versions, Darling have released an extremely limited edition barrel-aged Bone Crusher for the festive season. The black witbier features marula fruit and coffee beans and was aged in rum barrels for two months. Both the barrel-aged version and the Bone Crusher gift pack, featuring 330ml cans of the original, dry-hopped, marula and cherry versions are available at Makro stores nationwide and at the brewery retail shop in Darling. TO THE MENU ENTRIES OPEN CRUSHER SERIES AGM ANNOUNCED CRAFT BREWERS ASSOCIATION AFRICAN BEER CUP LA COLOMBE ADDS BESPOKE BEER REACHES ITS FINALE DARLING’S BONE