Clarens Craft Beer Festival 2022
“Wish you were beer with us!”
It was the long awaited Clarens Craft Beer Festival this weekend!
The last festival was just before lockdown in February 2020… What a lot has happened since then… And how much we have all been through!
It was so nice to experience another craft beer festival! I’ve grown to really enjoy and appreciate a good craft beer. There were 21 different Craft Breweries! Every brewery has their own range of different beers and they allow you to taste what you want. It’s then 2 tokens for half a beer and 3 tokens for a full beer.
The festival is usually in February, during our hot summer. This year it was in May and this weekend was exceptionally cold and unusually wet! I do prefer having the beer festival in summer. (I do prefer summer in general though.)
We went prepared with jackets, beanies and gumboots! The weather-man predicted continous rain for Friday and Saturday but luckily he wasn’t totally correct. Oup predicted that the sun will come out Saturday afternoon. We were all overjoyed when the gloomy clouds made way for a blue sky and bright shining sun! Even the cold beers tasted better!
It seemed everyone loved Everson’s warm, mulled cider. I would have liked another one of those, but every time I walked passed that brewery’s stall, the queue was too long! It was a clever idea to have a warm beer amongst all the cold ones in such cold weather!
Marcus, upon entering and acquiring tokens, went straight for the Agar Tomahawk IPA. I prefer the lighter beers. (and almost all the beers are lighter than that IPA!)
My glucose (seeing that I’m still monitoring) stayed relatively constant to low even when I ate. (alcohol lowers my glucose levels.)
The atmosphere and live bands’ music was so fun and energizing.
We stayed at Clarens Retreat which just impresses me more every year!
Cheers to a very enjoyable weekend! 🍻
This festival was our 8th Clarens Beer Festival! Here are some photos (and links to previous blog posts) of previous Clarens Beer Festivals. There wasn’t one in 2021 due to Covid.
