Crafty CPUT six pack show their beer skills
Student team aiming for top prize at Intervarsity Brewing Challenge
SIX CPUT students are hoping their skills for beer making will secure them a first prize in the 9th Annual Intervarsity Beer Brewing Challenge, which takes place in Joburg on September 10. Dr Zanephyn Keyser of the CPUT Food Science and Technology Department said the competition will provide the university’s Food Science and Technology team an opportunity to showcase their skills in beer making.
“The whole idea of this competition is for marketing purposes. We want to show that our focus is not only in food making, but also in making beverages.
“There are six of us in the group participating in the competition, which includes four students in the Food Science and Technology course.
“We are positive that our special ingredients for beer making will land us a top prize,” Keyser said.
The annual competition will take place at the SAB’s Cyril Ramaphosa World of Learning in Kayalami.
Veronique Meyer, a lecturer at CPUT who will be joining the students, said the university has participated in the competition since 2010.
CPUT’s Food Science and Technology department has made unique brews specially packed by the students. Meyer said she had always wanted the opportunity to work with the students, while also learning from them.
“I have always wanted to learn how to make beer. I have learnt a lot from two students, namely Ryan Morkel and Gareth Williams, who are at the centre of the brewing. Today, I can say that I have learnt quite a lot. Dr Keyser and I have just been assisting the students, and we are hoping that everyone’s unique skills will help win over the judges’ taste buds next week,” Meyer said.
Last year, CPUT landed a top prize for their speciality beer, the Tipsy Inyanga beer, which had an African take on Belgian Witbier.
Ingredients in that brew included buchu, a liquorice flavoured plant called the sweet root and a touch of naartjie.
The groups’ speciality beer this year is called the Ayuverda beer, which was inspired by chai tea.
Meyer said the beer will develop some flavouring a week after being bottled.
The participants are set to compete in several categories