{"id":25543,"date":"2015-10-01T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=25543"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:01:40","slug":"mitchells-brewery-knysna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/mitchells-brewery-knysna\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell’s Brewery Knysna"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask anyone over the age of thirty about their first Mitchell\u2019s beer, you\u2019re likely to evoke a wistful look and maybe even a misty eye. After which they\u2019ll probably launch into the question, \u201cDo you remember it came in those 2 litre plastic bottles?\u201d while indicating the bottle size with their hands. Yes, Mitchell\u2019s has a special place in hoppy hearts of South African craft beer drinkers. It\u2019s the original and with a shiny new brewery on Knysna\u2019s lagoon, it\u2019s out to give the up-and- coming whippersnappers a lesson in craft brewing.
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\n<\/a>Mitchell\u2019s was opened in 1983 by founder, Lex Mitchell (ex-SAB) at Thesen House. His first two brews were Forester\u2019s and Bosun\u2019s – names inspired by two of Knysna\u2019s first industries, forestry and a port. The beers were only available in Knysna and the locals took to them like a hophead to an IPA (India Pale Ale). Demand soon outstripped production and Lex moved the brewery to a larger premise in the industrial area<\/p>\n

It was around this time that Lex met a young man named Dave McRae. Dave was in town to celebrate his 21st birthday and ordered a keg of Forester\u2019s from Mitchell\u2019s. For Dave is was love at first sip and as they say, the rest is history. Dave has been the brewmaster for thirty years now and he\u2019s still as thirsty and passionate about beer as he\u2019s ever been. His signature is on every bottle of beer, and his sense of pride is as tangible as the Bosun\u2019s I\u2019m drinking while writing this.<\/p>\n

Mitchell\u2019s have come a long way since those early days. They\u2019ve moved into their state-of-the-art brewery complete with a beer garden, and probably the best view in the country. To use Dave\u2019s own words, \u201cit\u2019s been a lot a hard graft to get here\u201d, but the results speak for themselves. They\u2019ve increased production from one million litres to 2.5 million litres per year, and brew seven beers: Forester\u2019s, Bosun\u2019s, Ninety Shilling, Raven Stout, Old Wobbly, Milk & Honey and Millwood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recently spent a few days in Knysna over oyster festival, which means I spent a lot of time at Mitchell\u2019s. The passionate team are more family than employees and the place is full of characters and laughs. Mike the chef is a top guy and when he\u2019s not in the kitchen whipping up tasty chow, he\u2019s at the bar chatting with the locals. It\u2019s hard not to fall in love with the place while you\u2019re sipping on a pint admiring the lagoon view.\"Mitchells<\/a>\"Mitchells
\n<\/a>If I had to put it down to one thing that\u2019s made Mitchell\u2019s a success, it\u2019s consistency. The beers have been consistently good since the beginning, and in the craft beer universe, consistency is king. I have no doubt that the new venue is going to become a Knysna institution faster than you can open a beer. Ah, all this talk of open beers, is anyone else really thirsty right now?<\/p>\n

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If you ask anyone over the age of thirty about their first Mitchell\u2019s beer, you\u2019re likely to evoke a wistful look and maybe even a misty eye. After which they\u2019ll probably launch into the question, \u201cDo you remember it came in those 2 litre plastic bottles?\u201d while indicating the bottle size with their hands. Yes, Mitchell\u2019s has a special place in hoppy hearts of South African craft beer drinkers. It\u2019s the original and with a shiny new brewery on Knysna\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4582,4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-page","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}