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Jack Black Brewing Company

🌍 South Africa · Regional · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

One of South Africa's oldest craft breweries, founded in 2007 in Diep River, Cape Town. Jack Black was brewing American-style craft beers in South Africa when almost no one else was. Their Lager is South Africa's most widely distributed craft beer — found in restaurants and bars from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

7Beers
5Styles
4.7%Avg ABV
2007Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Jack Black Brewing Company

7 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 7 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 7 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
refreshing
6 of 7 beers
hoppy
4 of 7 beers
fruity
3 of 7 beers
citrusy
3 of 7 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad7 beers · 5 style families
Pale Ale 2Fruit Beer 2Wheat Beer 1Lager 1IPA 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesJack Black Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
clean
in 1 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: 4 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
light
in 1 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: 4 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
dry
in 4 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more dry than typical.
malty
in all 6 of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more malty than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 72%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 7
beers above the median
#1901
best ranked beer
Jack Black Butcher Block

Their beers place in the Top 72% of the catalogue on average, across 7 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Jack Black Brewing Company

One of South Africa's oldest craft breweries, founded in 2007 in Diep River, Cape Town. Jack Black was brewing American-style craft beers in South Africa when almost no one else was. Their Lager is South Africa's most widely distributed craft beer — found in restaurants and bars from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

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Cape Town · Western Cape · South Africa
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