Feeling a little bit wonky…

When their students aren’t quibbling over gay kissing, UCT and Stellenbosch University are waging beer war.

And beer is most certainly worth waging war over. Consider these wise words of wisdom from greater men than I:

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” – Frank Zappa

“Not all chemical are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.” – Dave Barry

“All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me – so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.” – Homer Simpson

But we’re not talking about the predictable, passe, philistine “down-down” kind of beer war. It’s the on-campus beer production kind of war.

Oh, you didn’t know that both universities have micro-breweries on campus? Really? And you didn’t know that both institutions had made it to the finals of the SAB Intervarsity Brewing Competition?

Well that’s how we roll with academics in the Cape. You Rhodes chaps might have the edge on everyone else when it comes to sheer consumption of alcohol per capita, but can you MAKE it?

Needless to say, 2oceansvibe is standing behind the UCT Micro-Brewery on this one, otherwise known as BUCT.

Ashton, Murray and Hari were in the studio today, sampling a little of the BUCT Weiss Beer that’s walked it’s way into the final.

The final tasting is this weekend.

We await the final results with great interest. One thing is for sure: this weekend, beer is the winner.