The treasury wants to raise taxes on alcoholic beverages and set a minimum price per unit
Heineken set to brew up local market
Large companies such as International Breweries and Nigerian Breweries are vying for the population’s drinking money
Underground liquor has a long history in South Africa. Its next chapter is being written under the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
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?
Africa is forecast to be the fastest growing total beverage alcohol region over the next five years.
Could a new manmade concoction of mundane odours stop malaria?
It is no coincidence that the biggest companies by far on the JSE trade on human weaknesses.
A cheap and quick system for testing how fresh beer is could give people a tool to test how fresh all their food is.
Snapshots of Africa’s most popular beers and the breweries that created them during colonialism and post independence.
This book reveals that there is more to craft beer than the the price tag and cute names.
Beer-eaucracy is putting the cork in a craft beer revolution that could provide widespread development.
AB InBev is considering a takeover of SABMiller to consolidate its position in a market facing the increased popularity of indie craft beers.
Without hops, there can be no beer – and South Africa’s hops farms are in serious trouble because of climate change.
Two young beermakers are taking an artisinal approach to the still untapped black market.
Despite Zimbabwe’s shrinking economy, Allan Gray is upping its stakes in the Zimbabwean sorghum beer and mobile phone markets.
"Oh Mpa," the Nigerian version of SABMiller’s Hero beer, is using a nostalgic appeal to local political ideologies to widen its marketshare.
Brewers are facing a stiff challenge from churches as hard-pressed Zimbabweans turn to God.
Yes. Yes it is. And time flies at the Beerhouse in Long Street, where the range of ale is matched by the quality of the food.
South Africans are acquiring a taste for ‘craft’ ale, and the Jo’burg festival of beer will have something to tap into every palate.
