Breweries in the Cape are putting their vats where people’s mouths are as the pandemic puts people out of work and onto the streets
Andre Viljoen, owner of Woodstock Breweries, which makes thousands of litres of vegetable soup to feed people made vulnerable by the Covid-19 lockdown, in Cape Town on May 14 2020. Picture: AFP/RODGER BOSCH
The Cape Town-based Woodstock Brewery is now packed with potatoes, carrot and butternut squash, one of several craft beer makers to have ditched barely and malt for the time being.of vegetable soup a day, feeding thousands of people who lost their incomes due to the pandemic. “Being able to repurpose brewing systems to make soup is a very easy transition,” said Rob Munro, co-founder of the Brewers Soup Collective, a charity aiming to transform all Cape Town’s artisanal beer factories into soup kitchens. “From a brewer’s perspective we’ve got nothing to do. “e’re unemployed and we can’t make money.”
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