OnTap Magazine

African craft breweries outside of SA now number in the 20s, with two recent additions in Mauritius and Uganda. Camelthorn founder and beer consultant Jörg Finkeldey has been developing recipes and brewing with the founders of Oxenham Craft Brewery in Phoenix, Mauritius. Beers are under The Thirsty Fox label and include a lager, Weiss and pale ale. Back on the mainland, Uganda is the latest African country to join the craft beer community. Banange Brewing Company opened in Kampala in March. The range includes amber ale, English pale ale and session IPA. AB InBev-owned Newlands Spring Brewing Company launched a one-off collaboration brew with Seattle-based Elysian Brewing Company, also part of ABI’s “High End” range. Elysian’s brewer Markus Stintson joined Newlands Spring’s Warren Wiese to brew 10,000 Miles – named for the distance between the two breweries. The beer, a wet-hopped IPA using both South African and American hops, is available at select Cape Town locations in bottles while stocks last. H omebrewers and pro brewers are teaming up to produce once-off beers. Look out for the Worthogs/Frontier bourbon barrel- aged imperial stout, released this winter. The beer was brewed at Frontier with individual wort production on site from nine legendary worthogs home brewers. The Durban Homebrewers are also dabbling in pro-am collabs. Their first, a Candied Orange IPA was brewed at Nguni Brewing for this year’s Clarens Craft Beer Festival. Look out for details of their next pro- am competition, taking place in September. Meanwhile in the Cape, Stellenbosch Brewing Company have teamed up with long-time homebrewer Russell Naude (Fishbone Beerworks) to produce a 10% imperial stout – keep an eye on Stellies’ social media for release details. PRO-AM COLLABS Brennerstrasse 17-19 · 96052 Bamberg - Germany · www.weyermannmalt.com WEYERMANN ® SPECIALTYMALTS OUR DISTRIBUTORS IN AFRICA: bevPLUS (PTY) ltd. and Dematech (PTY) ltd. 13 Michigan Street · Airport Industria · 7490 · Cape Town · South Africa www.bevplus.com Phone bevPLUS: + 27 - (021) - 820 9500 · e-mail: info@bevplus.com Phone Dematech: + 27 - (021) - 385 0483 · e-mail: info@dematechsa.com