Lately there’s been a sudden and overwhelming surge in popularity
around craft beer. The variety of tastes and textures of beers and ciders seems
to have sent everyone a bit nuts. I know I personally have a deep love of craft
beer and cider and the more restaurants and bars that have it, the happier I
am.
There’s even a craft beer event at Monte next week and one in Sandton next
month. That’s how nuts people have gone.
In the last three months or so three new bar/restaurants
have sprung up in the Fourways area and all of them are using the craft beer
trend as a cash cow of note. Today I went to the newest of the three restaurants:
The Beerhouse. This Cape Town import is situated situated in the Pineslopes Centre right at the bottom. If
you can’t find it just look for the bright yellow building. You can even see it
as you drive past on Witkoppen, or should I say you can’t not see it as you
drive past.
I was at the Beerhouse today for about four hours and I
thoroughly enjoyed it. From the time I arrived to the time I left it was packed
with people of all ages. And this is only after the Beerhouse has been open for
about a week and a half. But it’s not hard to understand why it’s already so
popular.
Let’s start with its food! From the chips to their pork
belly sandwich, it’s was all delicious! The food menu isn’t very extensive but
I’m sure you’ll find something good to eat on it.
Now let me tell you about the staff! I can’t speak for every
waster at the Beerhouse as we only had the one but he was the friendliest
waiter I’ve ever had and on top of that he was fast and efficient. He even took
our playfully abuse and jokes with a smile. Even the manager when he came past
was warm and friendly and willing to joke and talk with the customers. People
like these really are ambassadors for what a place like the Beerhouse
represents.
Now, it’s time to tell about the name sake behind the
Beerhouse, their beer and cider selection. Normally you go to a bar and its drinks
menu is a page and the food menu is seven pages. At the Beerhouse, that’s the
other way round. Whether you like IPAs, ales, weiss beers or ciders, they have
it all. One thing I really liked at the Beerhouse is you can get 100ml glasses
of all of their on tap drinks. These range from R7.00 to R15.00. So you can
sample a little bit of everything without braking the bank or being overly
inebriated. You can also get 330mls, 440ml and 500ml which all range in price.
This makes the Beerhouse very wallet friendly as you can often only get one
size glass of craft beer at one rather high price. They do how ever have a few
drinks that’ll make you raise your eyebrows such as a particular cider which
will set you back R300.00 for 750mls. Now I’m sorry ladies and gents, unless
that cider contains the elixir of life, I’m not paying R300 for one drink, but
if one of you out there has, please tell us what it’s like.
Over all I give the Beerhouse an A++ for atmosphere, staff
and food and drink and I’m looking forward to going back there again.
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