Beer and Wine in South Africa

For those who are interested, here's a post on beer/wine in South Africa.

You've Got:
Castle
Black Label
Hansa.

These are all mediocre lagers produced by SABMiller (that's the American miller). SABMiller is about 90% of the market, so its pretty much a monopoly.

There are also some others, but South Africa has no microbrewery movement like that in the States or Europe.

Windhoek, a Namibian lager
Mitchell's (hard to find)
Savanah hard apple cider
Amstel Light
Heineken
Dreher

That's about it.

Then there's wine, which you can pick up for as low as 14R a bottle (a little under $2!) As a rule of thumb when buying cheap wine, the more Afrikaans and less English on the bottle, the better.