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NEWS NEW BREWS The Karoo Craft Breweries team collect their People's Choice Award Agar’s Northside Bohemian Pilsner (4.5%) Launched at the Clarens Craft Beer Festival in February, Agar’s Czech- style pilsner is now available in bottles at select Gauteng outlets Kennel Brewery x Karoo Craft Breweries O is for Orange (5%) The latest in Kennel’s range of limited release cans is an-orange infused NEIPA. Look out also for Vanilla Ice, a frappe milkshake IPA (5%) brewed in collaboration with Lakeside. Spilhaus Premium Lager (4%) The second beer in the Spilhaus range is a Czech- style lager, which scooped a silver in the 2019 African Beer Cup. Frontier Beer Co. Tart of Darkness (7.5%) As well as this port barrel-aged Flanders red- style ale, look out for Frontier’s as-yet-unnamed bourbon barrel- aged stout (10%), due to be released in July. Little Wolf Sidra del Porto (7%) Originally launched at Fools & Fans, Little Wolf’s port barrel- aged cider with brettanomyces is now available in 500ml bottles. Riot Beer Vintages Two further beers will be released in Riot’s Vintage range this winter: Vintage 5 (9.1%) is an Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels for three months, Vintage 6 (7.4%) is a dark rye sour ale aged in brandy barrels for 14 months. Sedgefield Hound Dog (5.3%) Inspired by BrewDog’s Elvis Juice, Hound Dog is an IPA with added grapefruit peel, brewed in collaboration with Craig Mayhew, formerly of Daxi’s in East London. Grab it from Sedgefield’s taproom. Stellenbosch Brewing Co Umlungu Witbier (4.5%) A collab with French brewery Brasserie La Blonde et La Brune, Stellies first witbier is supporting local community upliftment project, PIP. Weathering all sorts of storms and weathering them well, the Woodstock-based Brewers Co-op, celebrates its fourth birthday in June. Nine brewing teams have been invited to brew a special beer for the day – no restrictions – with the beers going head to head for public votes. Teams are made up of current members, former members, locals, home-brew clubs and even a team of professionals in a collab. Metal Lane, Shackleton and Little Wolf are joining forces to brew a Kveik that will be served from the cask on the day of the event. Some of the special brews will be available in the days leading up to the event, with the big party taking place on Saturday 29th June. On the Sunday there will be a more relaxed vibe and all are welcome at the regular ‘bring-and-braai’. Sponsored by Rotolabel, the winners of the second annual Beer Label Awards were announced earlier this year. Medals are awarded in two categories: single beer labels and those in a series. In the single label category, silvers went to De Gendel Three Spades Cider, Spilhaus Brewery’s Märzen Lager and Premium Lager and to Nobleman Brewing Company’s Checkup Charlie Light Ale, DJ Masheshe IPA, Farmer FredLager andPeleton Pete Saison, while Dissident Brewing Company took a bronze for their Golden Ale. Awards for labels in a series went to Blouberg Brewery (bronze), Broers Brew (bronze), Karoo Craft Breweries (silver), Nobleman Brewing Company (silver) and Spilhaus Brewery (silver). Hoghouse Haybale Saison received the only gold for a single label, while Flatrock Brewery took the gold for beer labels in a series. The people’s choice award went to Karoo Craft Breweries. BREWERS CO-OP BEER LABEL AWARDS ANNOUNCED CELEBRATES 4TH BIRTHDAY WINNERS OF 2ND ANNUAL ontapmag.co.za | Winter 2019 | 13