like no other.

Sweetlips – Blonde Ale

An excellent choice on warm summer days, or for anyone new to craft beer.

Bonito – Bombshell Buchu Blonde

Bonito is a spiced variation of our popular Sweetlips blonde. Buchu, an endemic South African herb used in many traditional  remedies, imparts unique mint,  orange, and blackcurrant aromas that are very obvious on the nose and linger in the finish.

The beer is light, refreshing and flavourful. Pairs well with seafood and creamy dishes.

Picasso – Pilsner Hybrid

Picasso is a refreshing light beer with a hint of spicy hop and a lingering bitter finish. Named after the Picasso Triggerfish it’s slightly off the wall as a lager style brewed with our hybridised “Trigger Happy Yeast” this beer ferments out completely and surprises committed pils drinkers.

Ocean Potion – American Pale Ale

Ocean Potion, our flagship beer, is a classic American Pale Ale that pours pure gold with a solid lasting head that laces the glass beautifully. Its trademark is the huge tropical fruit and citrusy aroma. This hoppy component is underpinned by a solid yet complex malt base. The first surprise is that this beer, after the aroma, is all beer. It’s light bodied and finishes surprisingly bitter.

Ocean Potion pairs well with aromatic dishes like Boboti, Thai and Indian curries.

Roman Red – American Amber Ale

Roman Red is a beautifully balanced, medium bodied amber ale. It pours a clear African Sunset red with a dense off white head. The citrus and pine resin hop aroma typically associated with Pacific North Western hop varieties strikes a balance with caramel, raisins, and a hint of smokiness from the darker crystal malts.

Residual sweetness from the malt counters the hop bitterness. The beer finishes in a lingering mix of caramel and bitterness.

Hammerhead – American IPA (India Pale Ale)

Hammerhead, the first bottled IPA in South Africa, is a well-balanced IPA with a distinct hop character that imparts mild citrus and pine aromas with significant bitterness, balanced with a solid malt backbone. It is continually hopped, in a similar fashion to that of Dogfish Head’s IPA’s, which establishes a deep seated solid hop character in all aspects of this beer.

Toffee and caramel are characteristic of the malts used in Hammerhead. The working name on this beer was Hammer(ed) (Hop)Head and probably describes it well.

Empowered Stout – Sweet Stout

Empowered Stout is a complex full bodied English sweet stout. This beer gets its malty complexity and colour from a combination of five different malts and two hop varieties. Coffee, dark chocolate, dried fruit, raisins, and liquorice in the aroma with detectable sweetness balanced by the bitterness derived from the hops and roasted malts.

This beer is best enjoyed at around 11°C and pairs well with meat dishes or dark chocolate.

Titan – Imperial IPA

Titan is a single hop IPA designed to showcase the hop aroma and character of Southern Passion, a locally bred variety of hops that provides bitterness as well as a wonderful passion fruit aroma. The hop was originally known as US4/78 and hybridised in the Outeniqua mountains where all our local hops are cultivated. The hop was only ever utilised for bittering and, in 2012, we were the first craft brewery to brew a big IPA with Southern Passion.

The golden pour hints at the crystal malts used to impart some sweetness and the 8% ABV makes for a solid malt backbone. This beer will develop with age and is a nice winter warmer but balanced enough to enjoy cold on a summer day.

StoneFish – American Barleywine

Stonefish  is a rich and full  bodied aromatic winter beer that initially lulls  one into a false sense of security with its sweet comforting taste, and then after the initial bliss it surprises you with a hoppy sucker punch in the after taste.

The caramel malt flavour mixes well with the detectable alcohol and hoppy  undertones. Stonefish is best enjoyed between 8-10°C sitting by the fireplace on a cold winter’s day.

Apocalypse – Wee Heavy

Apocalypse pours dark amber with a dense lasting tan head. This style is all about malt and the toffee, caramel, raisins dark fruit aromas are a testament to the complex malt bill. There’s hardly any hop aroma as dictated by the style guideline and the perceivable alcohol warmth is testament to the 10.5% ABV.

Apocalypse is surprisingly easy drinking and pairs well with rich winter food like oxtail or mutton stews.

Black Marlin – Russian Imperial Stout

Black Marlin pours pitch black with a dense tan head. A wild winter beer powerful in aroma and taste. Complexity comes from 7 different malts, 3 hops and a touch of our own South African treacle. Coffee, dark chocolate, aniseed, dark fruit and caramel in the aroma prepares you for the big taste and lingering bitter finish.

This beer is best enjoyed at around 11°C and pairs well with rich warm deserts and dark chocolate. Black Marlin ages well and is a must have in your beer cellar.

Monsterfish – Russian Imperial Stout

Monsterfish is our latest flavour bomb. Born from an accidental experiment paired with a long standing ambition to brew a vanilla bourbon infused beer the first iteration was exceptional. It took almost 2 years and many recipe iterations to get to the current recipe that matches or maybe even eclipses that original, accidental creation. This is a BIG beer by any standard, full body, powerful aroma, strong flavour and a high alcohol percentage.

It’s a perfect winter beer with a rich vanilla, bourbon, coffee, and dark fruit aroma and a warm satisfying finish. Enjoy by the fire, after dinner or pour some over your favourite ice cream.

Crazy Diamond – Belgian Strong Dark Ale

Crazy D started as a collaboration between Triggerfish and Cockpit Brewhouse. This exceptional, award winning, Belgian Strong Dark Ale is rated with some of the best beers in the world. Crazy Diamond is quadruple fermented, which  refers to adding additional fermentable sugars every time fermentation slows down, and is then aged for at least 6 months before the first release of a new vintage. The final result is a marvellous fruity sipping beer that will improve over years in the cellar.

We’ve brewed Crazy D every second year since 2013 with very limited quantities of the 2013 still in our cellar. All vintages are still available. Crazy Diamond is available on special request in 750ml bottles.

Great Weiss – Hefe Weizen

A traditional wheat-based ale, for summer consumption, from Southern Germany. Great Weiss has a milky pale straw colour with a very thick, moussy, white head. Banana, bubblegum, and clove aromas are characteristic of the style. Being a very aromatic, and refreshing beer it has become a very popular Triggerfish summer beer.

Grunter – Brut SMASH IPA

Grunter is a refreshing brut SMASH IPA perfect for a hot summer’s day. SMASH is short for Single Malt And Single Hop, referring to the recipe Grunter using only one hop variety, and using only base malt. The brut part comes from the beer’s final gravity of 1.000, meaning that there is no sugar left in the final product. Don’t be fooled however, since there’s no sugar left we have to rely on a higher alcohol content to balance out the bitterness. So this beer has been known to catch people off guard.

Grunter has a fruity aroma and taste with lingering hop notes, and minimal malt tastes.

Dr Pinnamin’s – South African Golden Ale

The doctor in question, inspired by the sunset over the ocean while searching for yet another lifer and some peace of mind joined forces with us to try and capture the moment in a beer. We came up with one of our early 100% local beers by roasting our own specialty malts and leaving subtle resin and fruity hop aromas to enhance the flavour.

Dr. Pinnamin’s is an easy drinking summer beer that refreshes and certainly qualifies as one of the moreish favourites.

Englishman – Extra Special Bitter

Always a typical English ale but varying between brews as we enjoy the latitude allowed in the style. Englishman always sports caramel malt and floral hop aromas with medium to high bitterness.

This easy drinking session beer can be enjoyed ice cold or up to 14°C if you like warmer beers.

Rock Cod – Amber Weizen

A semi-traditional wheat-based ale, with a bit of darker malt added to the recipe to spice things up for the colder months. Rock Cod has an amber colour with a very thick, moussy, off-white head.

Banana, bubblegum, clove, and some caramel aromas are characteristic of the style. Best enjoyed whilst fresh and yeasty.

Champs Breakfast – Coffee Infused Oatmeal Stout

A marriage made in heaven. Espresso and Beer. Rich, dark and thick; this is the complete breakfast. We use 6 different malts, enough oatmeal porridge to feed a hungry soccer team and enough espresso (35 litres per brew) to wake the dead.

This combination culminates in a tar coloured beer with an explosive coffee aroma and silky smooth full body from the oatmeal. The coffee in the finish lingers till your next sip, or next dentist’s visit.

Black Bass – Oatmeal Stout

Black Bass is a complex full bodied oatmeal stout. This beer gets its velvety smooth texture from the oatmeal used in the brew. Coffee, dark chocolate, and liquorice in the aroma with detectable sweetness balanced by the bitterness derived from the hops and roasted malts.

This beer is best enjoyed at around 11°C and pairs well with meat dishes or dark chocolate.

Southern Right – South African Pale Ale

Southern Right is inspired by the African sunset over the ocean, local sub-tropical fruit, and Cape fynbos, capturing a bit of Africa in this easy drinking ale. Southern Right is brewed using 100% South African grown ingredients. This is one of the few beers in our range using malt roasted on site, which leads to small variations between batches. The malty caramel flavour forms a solid backbone for the tropical fruit, from local Southern Passion hops, and unique fynbos aromas contributed by African Wormwood.

This beer is dry with medium bitterness and a good choice with local dishes.

Four Legs – Altbier

The name Altbier, means old beer, and refers to the pre-lager brewing era of using a warm top-fermenting yeast, instead of cold bottom-fermenting yeasts. Over time the Alt yeast adjusted to lower temperatures, and the Alt brewers would store or lager the beer, lengthening the fermentation, leading to a cleaner, crisper beer than is the norm for some other top-fermented beers.

Four Legs is the common name used to refer to the Coelacanth “living fossil” discovered in South Africa and recently in Sodwana Bay in Northern Zululand and apt for our Triggerfish Alt.

MayStay – South African IPA

MayStay is our experimental IPA, and depending whether or not the result is good, it may stay or not. Brewed using roughly the same malt bill as Hammerhead, we use one bittering and one aroma hop, with the aroma hops being a hybridised South African variety.

The result is a well-balanced IPA with a distinct floral hop character and significant bitterness. Using only locally grown hops this is a beer that could establish itself as a typical local style over time.

Ancient One – Fynbos Gruit

Gruit is an old (mediaeval) beer style that uses herbs instead of hops for bittering and flavour. Ancient One incorporates local fynbos and derives its bitterness entirely from African Wormwood. The aroma is malty with a unique herbal fruitiness. The ruby red colour is mostly derived from crystal malts imparting caramel and dried fruit flavours.

Ancient One is an exceptionally refreshing beer changing what you’d expect from a dark red ale and can be enjoyed year round.

Lionfish – Session IPA Gruit

Light, crisp, and bitter, this session IPA is brewed with dandelion leaves to replace the hops. Technically a gruit (not brewed with hops) it’s another of our experimental beers that may expand your horizons in taste. The colour is surprisingly dark for a beer containing only base malt and is a result of the large amount of dandelion leaves used for bittering.

Dried orange peel and red grape aroma suggests a much higher alcohol content than the measured 4.8% which means you can have another without fear or guilt

Pucker Pufferfish – Wild Pinotage Red Hybrid

Pufferfish is a slightly sour spontaneously fermented beer wine hybrid. Brewed with 50% roman red alert and 50% pinotage must on wild yeast from the grape skins. A dark red beer that has spent 2 years in a red wine barrel delivers distinct fruit, berries and spice character from the hop and grape properties.

Wild Stonefish – Sour Barrel Aged Barleywine

Lactobacillus and other wild cultures sours and dries out this traditionally rich and full bodied Stonefish. Brewed in 2012 this beer spent 3 years in a 2nd fill oak barrel and delivers a spectacularly complex yet drinkable beer.

The variety of flavour and surprisingly dry, refreshing sour palate suggests a much lighter beer than the 10% punch it packs. Enjoy with rich bold meat dishes.