September 9th, 2009
What’s Brewing in Johannesburg
“Let’s check this out, you won’t believe it,” I told Mary. “But there is a beer making tour, right here in Johannesburg. And guess what you get at the end of the tour. Guess.” I was giddy at the thought of seeing beer being brewed. Mary sipped her orange juice. “Let me think, you get a beer at the end of it?” “Right!” I said, “So we’re going, it’s right in the way from the Park Station, we can walk.” Mary laughed. “You know you can get a beer at many of the fine hotels Johannesburg has, in fact this one has a bar, we were there last night. You do remember.” Remember, well that was where I found out about the tour, as Mary had gone off to bed upstairs on the eighth floor and I stayed for one last round and started to talk to a chap from Australia, Melbourne as I recall, who was much into beer and described the tour he had taken the day before. It seems the tour covers the earliest beer making from the cradle of civilization on the Euphrates River, how it spread to Europe and Africa (no mention of Milwaukee , presumably), then a walk through a real, full on brew house, and the best part, the no not the fermentation explanation or detailed accounts of the activity of yeast, but a fresh cold glass of beer, brewedbefore your eyes. I was smitten, and had to go, and I knew Mary would go for it, she was up for most anything. So we went to the Park Station and had a bit of lunch before our tour, and went to sushirestaurant for a quick bite, holding off on the sake in anticipation of our beer extravaganza. Here the sushi came down on a conveyor belt and the grilled salmon was delicious.
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