Brewers Behind a Craft Beer Revolution

“Offer the people a good, honest product at a good, honest price," says Gauteng Province craft brewmaster Andre de Beer. (Photo Credit: Darren Taylor)

The first craft beer in South Africa was brewed in 1983 in the coastal town of Kynsna by Lex Mitchell to follow the model of England's classic ales. (Photo Credit: Darren Taylor)

Nuschka Botha of the Black Horse Brewery in the Magaliesburg Mountains is one of two women working in the commercial craft beer industry. (Photo Credit: Darren Taylor)

As a child, premier craft brewer Moritz Kallmeyer learned how to make beer from a Pretoria farm laborer who told him to ferment sorghum and sugar. (Photo Credit: Drayman’s Brewery)

"My passion and my ambition was to create a beer culture, and to share with other people the unique flavors in craft beer," said Moritz Kallmeyer, who stands with his wife outside their microbrewery in Pretoria. (Photo Credit: Drayman’s Brewery)

Dirk van Tonder pulls a pint of his own Orange Blossom Weissbier, a German wheat beer, for a customer. (Photo Credit: Darren Taylor)

Craft brewing pioneer Steve Gilroy posed for an ad for his premier ‘Serious’ ale at his microbrewery outside of Johannesburg. (Photo Credit: Darren Taylor)

Many among the pioneers of craft brewing were disillusioned with mass-produced, commercial beer. (Photo Credit: South African Breweries)