11 Feb Key liquor industry trends in South Africa 2019
Here's a great FREE report from market research house, IRI, that offers useful insights into three key trends shaking and moving SA's liquor market.
17 May When is a craft beverage no longer considered “craft”?
By definition, craft beverages are small-batch drinks and owned independently -- but in some cases, the breweries that make them eventually flourish and become so successful that they’re considered bigger brands.
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16 May Making beer with leftover bread
At the end of a typical day, bakeries have so much extra bread that even food banks can’t use all of it. Here’s another way to keep it out of landfills: make it into beer.
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10 Apr Beer drinkers lead big brewers back to their craft
Middle-class consumers who may be trying to drink their woes away are the main growth driver of South Africa's alcoholic drinks market. And craft beer is quickly becoming their tipple of choice.
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16 Oct The Steve Jobs of beer
Ambition made Jim Koch, the head of Sam Adams, the US's biggest craft beer, a billionaire. It also opened America to a craft-beer renaissance, and like Steve Jobs did with Apple, has made a very successful business out of satisfying a demand people didn’t...
24 Jul SA’s latest craft brewers – young, talented and black
Meet Apiwe Nxusani of Beerhogs and Ndumiso Madlala of Soweto Gold, two young, black South African beermakers who are helping to shape this country's burgeoning craft beer market.
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27 Jan US: As brewing giants push craft beer, Bud and Miller suffer
The world’s biggest brewers are aggressively rolling out products designed to appeal to fans of craft beer. But they’re not putting the microbrewers who started the movement out of business.
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15 Nov SA’s top craft brewers winners announced in inaugural competition
SAB’s World of Beer has announced the winners of the inaugural South African National Craft Brewers Championship. [Interesting move for SAB to award and recognise its competition, albeit tiny! Ed]
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27 Oct Pucker up! Craft beers are going sour
Move over, bitter Indian pale ales and chocolaty stouts. There's a new kid on the American craft-brewing block, and it aims to knock the salivary glands into action. It's called "sour beer".
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22 May US: Latest Mintel insights into craft beer
In celebration of American Craft Beer week, Mintel published these insights from several of its latest beer reports.
...09 Jan The wages of microbrewing
The craft beer revolution has exploded around the world, with beer-lovers are now paying triple-digit prices for their beloved ales. There are black tie awards balls and beer sommeliers called Cicerones (only six of whom have achieved the title of “Master”...
16 Aug US: Craft beer trend continues to fizz
US craft brewers have much to celebrate this summer, as their ranks swell and they continue to see double-digit sales growth. Craft breweries are expanding faster than at any time since Prohibition, according to The Huffington Post. Sales increased 14% in the first half...