Pretoria Purely Crafted Beer Fest !!

Pretoria Purely Crafted Beer Fest !!

Friday 27 April 2018 was a public holiday in South-Africa, Freedom Day. On that day we had a Craft Beer Festival and I had the Freedom to attend it together with my lovely wife - Nice!! On this day I did an entire #SevenDayBeerChallenge in one day!!

This beer festival was held at an open air market, called the Cow House market. This market normally takes place over weekends and mostly sell food and some antique type of stuff!! In this case they just added the craft beer stalls. There were a number of craft beer breweries selling their beers on the day. The first one I visited was the Legends Brewery. They allowed me to test all their beers for free!! (As you can see they have 8 taps, thus here I already completed the SevenDayBeerChallenge at one brewery!! I the decided to buy a glass of their Stout.

In the photo above you can see my freshly poured stout standing next to the tap!! Below you can see the stout, which is quite good looking, but looks alone does not make a good stout it needs to have a good taste as well. This one sadly failed in this department, it's taste was to weak, a bit to watery!!

Below you can see my wife and I, savoring our drinks, she had a craft gin, as she does not like beer. A number of the beer brewers also sold home brewed gin!!

As it was lunch time we went to look for some food to eat and found this nice Shawarma stall where we ordered some beef Shawarma's.

Below is another photo of my stout!!

Below is the shawarma up close, it was delicious!!

Below is a selfie of my wife and I.

Below you can see some people just chilling in the old cow stables - from there the name Cow House market. Just look at the size of the little man's Candy Floss!!

The next brewery I visited was Hayzeldean Brewing Company. I again decided to have a stout!!

Below you can see the beers on offer from the Hazeldean Brewery

Below you can see their setup from a bit closer.

I decided to only buy a 200ml as there were a lot of beer to taste, below you can see the nice caramel colored foam head on this beer!!

This stout tasted more like what one would expect from a stout, this one was to my liking!!

The next brewery I visited was Friar Habit, pictured below.

I decided on the Irish Red Ale. This beer poured with a lot of carbonation!!

It also had a great creamy looking white head!!

To me this beer did not look like an Irish Red Ale, it looked more than a stout and frankly it also tasted more like a stout, with a very nice toffee malt taste!! I loved this beer, it was tasting great!! Below you can see the Irish Red Ale on the bar counter. I liked these guy's rather old school looking taps!!

Below you can see the next brewery visited, named Stimela Brewery, yes buddy that beer is empty, staring into it will not bring it back!!

Guess which one I picked, yes I went for the stout again, so predictable!!

Here you can see somebody else's beer being poured.

Now it was my turn!!

This bartender poured with some style!!

Look at that nice stream of beer!!

And the final product below is just amazing, look at that foam, look at the color - great!!

The sun in the backdrop gives a nice glow to the foam!!

Below is another view of this perfect beer, I left the best beer for last, this one really was a great beer, I enjoyed this one a lot!!

The rest of the photos, just shows some more of what the place looks like. There was also some live bands, giving a very nice vibe to the entire day, it was just great.

Some nice shade was provided for people to sit under, sip on their beers and listen to the music.

Below is one of the bands playing some nice music!!

The rest of the photos, just show some of the breweries, that I did not feature in this post, the one below operated from the back of this bakkie!! (bakkie is what we in South Africa call a truck)

We enjoyed this day a lot, it was a very nice festival, with some great beers to test.

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All photos were taken by me with my iPhone, at the Purely Pretoria Craft Beer Festival in Pretoria.

I hope you enjoyed these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.