Beer in Cape Town
Beer history, breweries and beer culture in Cape Town (South Africa).
Jan van Riebeeck had a brewery set up at the fort in 1658. Later, in the Newlands district, Anders Ohlsson brewed Lion Lager; the brewery still exists.
Breweries in Cape Town
Newlands Brewery
Goes back to the Swedish brewer Anders Ohlsson, who brewed Lion Lager here.
Beer history of Cape Town
- 1658
Jan van Riebeeck has a brewery set up in the fort at the Cape – half a year before the first wine is pressed there.