Beer
latest news & developments‘Tax is unlikely to deter drinkers’
The treasury wants to raise taxes on alcoholic beverages and set a minimum price per unit
Heineken buying Distell will allow for its diversification in the wake of waning beer sales
Heineken set to brew up local market
Nigeria’s palm wine tappers face stiff competition
Large companies such as International Breweries and Nigerian Breweries are vying for the population’s drinking money
Alexandra’s black market for booze under lockdown
Underground liquor has a long history in South Africa. Its next chapter is being written under the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
High hopes, not much dope in marijuana beer and gin
It’s now okay to smoke cannabis, or at least it’s legal as long as you don’t buy your supply. But what about drinking it?
Cheers to the world’s fastest growing beer market
Africa is forecast to be the fastest growing total beverage alcohol region over the next five years.
Beer and stinky feet could be a fatal combination – for mosquitos
Could a new manmade concoction of mundane odours stop malaria?
Betting on addiction is a sure winner
It is no coincidence that the biggest companies by far on the JSE trade on human weaknesses.
New quick stale-beer tester could prove food freshness
A cheap and quick system for testing how fresh beer is could give people a tool to test how fresh all their food is.
Exploring Africa’s favourite beers
Snapshots of Africa’s most popular beers and the breweries that created them during colonialism and post independence.
Designated driver needed on this sipping safari
This book reveals that there is more to craft beer than the the price tag and cute names.
The journey to the bottom of a (craft) beer glass
Beer-eaucracy is putting the cork in a craft beer revolution that could provide widespread development.
World’s biggest brewers mull $245bn tie-up
AB InBev is considering a takeover of SABMiller to consolidate its position in a market facing the increased popularity of indie craft beers.
Climate change has beer over a barrel
Without hops, there can be no beer – and South Africa’s hops farms are in serious trouble because of climate change.
Craft brew is the new black
Two young beermakers are taking an artisinal approach to the still untapped black market.