Lakeside Brewing Co

The taste of adventure

Lakeside Brewing Co

We started in a Lakeside garage in Cape Town and spent a decade putting adventure in a bottle. The brewery has gone, but a limited selection still pours at the Cape Farmhouse Beer Garden — and the gees, the people and the parties carry on there and across our places in Kalk Bay.

Lakeside Brewing Co roundel: mountains above the Lakeside wordmark, with waves below

Still pouring, in small numbers

We no longer run our own brewery and the beers aren't sold online. But a limited selection is still on tap at the Cape Farmhouse Beer Garden — 783 Pale Ale, plus the occasional one-off contract brew. The hospitality carries on too: we run the venues, host the events and keep good local beer on the taps.

Where to find us

Three places, one crew

The brewing stopped. The hosting didn't. Here's where the Lakeside crew actually is today.

Beer garden · Red Hill

Cape Farmhouse Beer Garden

Our home on the mountain above Scarborough. Low-and-slow BBQ off a custom offset smoker, burgers, tapas and a full bar, under the oaks and a big circus tent. Local brews on tap. Families and kids welcome.

Address
M65 & M66 Plateau Road, Red Hill, Cape Town 7579
Website
capefarmhousebeergarden.co.za
Functions
WhatsApp 084 999 3056 · up to 100 guests
Note
No dogs — the farm has its own resident crew
Book a table

Cafe · Kalk Bay

Secret Garden Cafe

Fresh, vibrant and tucked off the Main Road in Kalk Bay. Breakfast, lunch and good coffee in a green courtyard — the spot locals send visitors to and then quietly keep for themselves.

Where
64 Main Road, Kalk Bay — up the stairs, above Kalk Bay Provisions
Website
secretgardencafe.co.za
Phone
067 384 7887 (WhatsApp for bookings)
Social
@secretgardenkalkbay
Book a table

Store · Kalk Bay

Kalk Bay Provisions

The store that grew out of this brewery. Started life as Lakeside Provisions, named for the beer; now Kalk Bay Provisions, sharing a stoep with the Secret Garden Cafe. Clothing, prints and local goods.

Where
64 Main Road, Kalk Bay — street level, below the cafe
Stocks
Tees, prints and the Lakeside back catalogue

Prints & tees

The posters outlived the beer

Every Lakeside beer was named for a place worth getting to, and each one got its own screenprint. The beer is gone; the artwork is still here, as framed prints, wood prints, tees and crew necks. Order by enquiry — ask at Kalk Bay Provisions or send us a message.

783 Pale Ale poster: Slangkop Lighthouse at Kommetjie against a banded sunset

783 Pale Ale

Slangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie

Framed printfrom R2 000
Crew neckR850
T-shirtR450
Odyssey Pilsner poster: a figure on the Kalk Bay harbour wall looking out to sea

Odyssey Pilsner

Kalk Bay, Cape Town

Framed printfrom R2 000
Crew neckR850
T-shirtR450
Summit IPA poster: a climber silhouetted in the Wolfberg Arch in the Cederberg

Summit IPA

Wolfberg Arch, Cederberg

Framed printfrom R2 000
Crew neckR850
T-shirtR450
Misty Cliffs Hazy IPA poster: kitesurfers off Witsands and Misty Cliffs

Misty Cliffs Hazy IPA

Witsands & Misty Cliffs

Framed printfrom R2 000
Crew neckR850
T-shirtR450

Wood prints — R450

Kommetjie · Misty Cliffs · Rocklands, Cederberg · Crystal Pools

The rest of the range

Wanderlust poster artwork Supernova Porter poster artwork Descent IPA poster artwork Festival Lager poster artwork Out of Office Belgian Blonde poster artwork

Illustrations

The Places series

Nine hand-drawn woodcuts, one for every beer, each of a place in the Cape worth the effort of getting to. They were drawn for the labels and ended up carrying the whole brand — onto the bottles, the posters, the tees and the walls. Three colourways were produced of each.

Woodcut of Slangkop Lighthouse at Kommetjie above a rocky shoreline
783 Pale AleSlangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie
Woodcut of a lone figure standing inside the Wolfberg Arch in the Cederberg
Summit IPAWolfberg Arch, Cederberg
Woodcut of the Kalk Bay pavilion and harbour wall below the mountains
Odyssey PilsnerKalk Bay, Cape Town
Woodcut of a figure walking through dune vegetation toward the sea at Witsands
Misty Cliffs Hazy IPAWitsands, Misty Cliffs
Woodcut of a walker on a Karoo farm road through flowering veld with birds overhead
Wanderlust Amber AleNieu-Bethesda, Groot Karoo
Woodcut of a swimmer in the Storms River gorge between high rock walls
Out of Office BlondeStorms River, Tsitsikamma
Woodcut of the SALT telescope on the Karoo plain beneath a sky full of stars
Supernova PorterSALT Telescope, Sutherland
Woodcut of a path descending the face of Table Mountain
Descent IPATable Mountain, Cape Town
Woodcut of a crowd silhouetted against the Tankwa Karoo at AfrikaBurn
Fest LagerAfrikaBurn, Tankwa Karoo

Beer labels

What went on the bottle

The illustration, the beer name and the place it was drawn from, wrapped around a bottle. These are the labels as they were printed. Most are retired — 783 Pale Ale is the one still pouring at the Farmhouse, alongside the odd one-off contract brew.

783 Pale Ale can against a yellow ground
783 Pale Ale
Can
783 Pale Ale bottle with the Slangkop Lighthouse label
783 Pale Ale
Bottle
Out of Office Blonde bottle with its Storms River label
Out of Office Blonde
Fest Lager bottle with its AfrikaBurn label
Fest Lager
Summit IPA bottle with its Wolfberg Arch label
Summit IPA

Events & services

We still throw a proper party

Years of running venues, long-standing relationships with local suppliers and a team that has done this many times before. Whether it's an intimate gathering or a big one, we'll help you put it together.

Enquiries: WhatsApp 084 999 3056

Our story

It started in a garage in Lakeside

Morne started brewing at home in Lakeside, Cape Town, because there was barely any craft beer in the neighbourhood. In 2012 he and his friend Pierre bought a brewery in Kommetjie and turned a home project into a commercial brand.

In 2016 the partnership ended and the brewery was sold. Morne rebranded, giving every beer its own identity and its own occasion — a place in the Cape worth getting to, and a beer to drink when you got there.

During the pandemic came the Lakeside Tap Room at Imhoff Farm, Kommetjie, which became a gathering place when there weren't many left. Then the Cape Farmhouse Beer Garden. We no longer brew at scale — a limited selection and the occasional contract brew is the whole of it now — but the venues, the events and the thunderous parties with live music are still the point.

The beers, for the record

  • 783 Pale Ale — still pouring
  • Odyssey Pilsner
  • Summit IPA
  • Misty Cliffs Hazy IPA
  • Descent IPA
  • Fest Lager
  • Out of Office Blonde
  • Supernova Porter
  • Wanderlust Amber Ale

Contact

Come find us

Events & functions WhatsApp 084 999 3056 Year-end parties, corporate bookings, bar and catering
Email morne@lakesidebrewingco.co.za Prints, tees and everything else
Cape Farmhouse Beer Garden M65 & M66 Plateau Road, Red Hill, Cape Town 7579 Book a table on Dineplan
Kalk Bay Secret Garden Cafe & Kalk Bay Provisions 64 Main Road, Kalk Bay · 067 384 7887 · secretgardencafe.co.za