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A Few Cool Spots To Drink Craft Beer In Cape Town

A Few Cool Spots To Drink Craft Beer in Cape Town

A Few Cool Spots To Drink Craft Beer in Cape Town.

Cape Town is home to wineries, mountains, the sea, and—new to the area—craft beer! The city is experiencing a ‘Beer Revolution’ as innovative micro-breweries are sprouting up like mushrooms. You may visit a lot of breweries in and around the city, and a lot of eateries now serve local beer. Just ten of our favorite craft beer establishments in Cape Town are listed in this post.

Sea Point, Engruna

I really believe in the classic coupling of beer and pizza or beer and burger in this day of wine and food pairings. Pairing, that is. Engruna in Sea Point is a winner with a craft beer menu that might keep you occupied for a few days sampling various craft brews. You have a triple winner when you combine their amazing pizzas and burgers with their craft beer selection.

The restaurant, which has both indoor seating and a covered outdoor porch, is situated on Sea Point’s popular Main Road. They have a lot of toppings, so these pizzas are really wonderful! It’s a great place to spend a day observing the world while enjoying cold beer and delicious thin-based pizza.

Make reservations because Sea Point is bustling at night.

Engruna is open from 12:00 pm until 10:30 pm, Monday through Saturday.

Long, CBD, beerhouse

Everyone has sang it; now listen to it. A wall with 99 beer bottles. Additionally, all of them are craft beers, both domestic and foreign. With sixteen beers on tap, Beerhouse on Long is essentially a craft beer paradise.

They feature a (large) beer menu that lists all the different kinds of beer and assists you in selecting the one that best suits your palate. Better still, their snack menu features amazing culinary treats along with beer pairing recommendations. Coconut-Crumbed Avocado and Sriracha Beer Nuts are two examples.

The Beerhouse is lively and lively, with seating on the balcony overlooking the action on lively Long Street. In addition to their pub-food menu, which has bitterballen, bunny chow, and flammkuchen—very crispy pizzas made of beer-bread dough with a creme fraiche base and toppings like pulled pork, chakalaka, and mature cheddar—they also offer daily lunch specials. Here, you’ll find plenty to fill your belly before making a valiant effort to try as many of the 99 as you can!

Remember that this is Long Street, and the Beerhouse on Long is open Monday through Sunday from 11:00 am till late!

Gardens and The Dog’s Bollocks

The Dog’s Bollocks is a hidden gem located in Gardens on a side street between Buitenkant Street and Hope Street. It is essentially a long, narrow, and wire-garden-furniture-equipped tunnel between two garages that is covered. There’s a coffee bar at the back. It is called The Bitch’s Tits when it is open during the day. It is collectively referred to the Yard.A Few Cool Spots To Drink Craft Beer in Cape Town

However, the nighttime version is the best time to enjoy craft beer because you can try the amazing burgers. The idea is straightforward: place your order at the counter, drink a beer, and watch the hipsters be trendy while you wait for your number to be called. After that, decide which burger variation you wish to eat. A great deal. They are enormous.

Unexpectedly, they have a specialty beer of their own named … The Bollocks of the Dog. It’s good. Excellent.

The Dog’s Bollocks is open from 5:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Salt River’s Devil’s Peak Brewery and The Taproom

Beer is brewed on the premises, and there’s something pretty amazing about drinking it there. You may do it at Devil’s Peak Brewery’s Salt River eatery, The Taproom. It is tastefully furnished with a variety of paintings and trinkets, mismatched tables, and a few lounge-style seats. It’s large and spacious, housed in a recently refurbished Woodstock building that was once a textile mill. The floor-to-ceiling windows provide an amazing view of Devil’s Peak, yes.

The beers are separated into two categories: the founder range, which consists of the four that are bottled and made available to the public, and the explorer range, which is more experimental. All have beautiful, elaborately made labels and are named after Devil’s Peak, the mountain. The meal and beer combination options are excellent, and the menu is straightforward but superb. To sample all of the craft beers in their assortment, try the beer tasting platter as well.

The Taproom is open from 11:00 am to 2:00 am (bar) and from 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm (kitchen) Monday through Saturday. Sundays from 12:00 to 5:00 in the kitchen and from 6:00 in the bar

Hi, Observatory, Sailor Bistro

Enjoy your artisan beer while listening to amazing music at this modest bar on Observatory’s bustling Lower Main Road. Go down there if you enjoy a variety of musical styles.

Surprise, surprise! Hello Sailor has a nautical motif. But we’re not talking about white-washed boats and blue-and-white-striped ceramics in the Mediterranean style. Imagine a more seedy pub along the docks where sailors with tattoos sip rum. However, it isn’t dingy because the original wooden shop front windows open into the street, making it ideal for people to watch. Hello Sailor is the result of replacing the tattooed sailors with amiable (tattooed) personnel, a daily rotating menu displayed on a blackboard, and a constantly growing craft beer menu.

Hello Sailor is open from 8:30 am to 11:00 pm Monday through Friday and from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Observatory’s Jerry’s Burger Bar

There is plenty room for two craft beer establishments within 50 meters of one another on Obz’s popular Lower Main Road. The American-style Jerry’s Burger Bar is located across the street from Hello Sailor. There is a corner to fit everyone, including booths, big oak tables, bar seating, and a cozy little area at the back. Behind the bar, there are twelve taps as well, and as everyone knows, the beer on tap is, well, the berries (the hops?), ahem.

“Not your all ‘American diner’ vibe, a more sophisticated, New York-styled venue,” their marketing blurb says, and it’s true. With the exposed pipes delivering the nectar of the gods—I mean beer—along the brick walls, it has an almost industrial air.

Burgers of all kinds are served after bar-style snacks. Lucy’s: The Seven Deadly Sins is one of its sections. These patties are packed burgers. Yes, it’s stuffed. Favorites like the Lust Burger, which is packed with blue cheese and mushrooms and has handmade peach mustard and Emmenthaler cheese on top!

This is a great place if you enjoy craft beer and sports. If the talk is boring, there is always something to look at because there are TVs around.

Don’t worry—there is a Jerry’s nearby no matter where you are thanks to its expansion into Gardens, Sea Point, Blouberg, and Willowbridge!

The hours of Jerry’s Burger Bar in Obz are 12:00 pm to 2:00 am, Monday through Sunday. To find out when the other branches are open, visit their Facebook sites.

Cafe Banana Jam, Kenilworth

If you believe that craft beer is only found in urban areas, you should reconsider. Tucked away in the Southern Suburbs is the vibrant, Caribbean-inspired Banana Jam Cafe. Greg Casey, the proprietor, is an avid craft beer enthusiast and is known as the Cape Town Craft Beer Revolution headquarters.

Thirty artisan beers are available on tap. Delicious and impressive. And those are only the ones that are available. Caribbean-inspired dishes like Jamaican Jerk Chicken and bacon-wrapped chilli poppers are on the menu. Do I need to elaborate?

This location, which offers inside sitting and a shaded courtyard, is unquestionably worthwhile. There’s no need to drive because it’s close to Kenilworth station!