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title: "Lucy Corne"
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# Lucy Corne

**Role:** Freelance beer, food & travel writer · Advanced Cicerone®  
**Location:** Cape Town  
**Organisation:** The Brewmistress · African Beer Cup · BeerEx Africa

Lucy Corne is a Cape Town-based freelance beer, food and travel writer, educator, international beer judge and the voice behind The Brewmistress. She was the first person in Africa to qualify as a Certified Cicerone and later became the continent’s first Advanced Cicerone. She co-founded the African Beer Cup, serves as its competition director, is a partner and organiser at BeerEx Africa, and runs South African National Beer Day. She is currently researching Beer Safari: A Guide to the Breweries of Africa, due to be published by Penguin Random House in late 2027.

Beer Safari will be a 256-page guide to the stories, beers and atmosphere of craft breweries across Africa, combining the usefulness of a travel guide with the visual character of a coffee-table book. An initial print run of 3,000 copies is planned. Research is underway across the continent, with the manuscript due at the end of 2026. Lucy is visiting as many breweries as possible in person and is running a crowdfunding campaign to help cover research travel and photography not funded by the publisher. Corporate sponsorship packages are also available.

## Career highlights

- Co-founder and competition director of the African Beer Cup.
- Partner and organiser at BeerEx Africa.
- Organiser of South African National Beer Day.
- First Certified Cicerone in Africa and the continent’s first Advanced Cicerone.
- International beer judge, including the World Beer Cup.
- Author of African Brew and Beer Safari.
- Former editor of On Tap beer magazine.
- Freelance contributor covering beer and travel across Africa.

## Consulting

Lucy works with breweries, bars, distributors and beer organisations on beer education, sensory quality, industry insight, communications and customer-facing beer programmes.

- Brewery, bar and distribution consulting
- Beer market and industry advice
- Marketing and communications advice
- Beer-list development and tasting notes
- Beer judging, review and sensory troubleshooting
- Beer education and staff training
- Corporate sponsorship opportunities connected to Beer Safari

## Current projects

- Researching Beer Safari: A Guide to the Breweries of Africa for Penguin Random House, for publication in late 2027.
- Visiting craft breweries across Africa and completing the manuscript by the end of 2026.
- Running a crowdfunding campaign to support research travel and photography for Beer Safari.
- Offering corporate sponsorship packages connected to the Beer Safari project.
- African Beer Cup
- BeerEx Africa
- South African National Beer Day
- Beer Beneath the Acacias: an All About Beer feature on Capital Craft Beer Festival.

## Official links

- [The Brewmistress](https://brewmistress.co.za/)
- [Lucy Corne](https://lucycorne.com/)
- [Beer Safari and crowdfunder](https://beersafari.brewmistress.co.za/)
- [African Beer Cup](https://africanbeercup.com/)
- [BeerEx Africa](https://www.beerex.africa/)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/the_brewmistress/)
- [Cicerone profile](https://www.cicerone.org/us-en/users/lucy-corne)
- [Craft Beer & Brewing articles](https://www.beerandbrewing.com/author/lucy-corne)
- [All About Beer: Beer Beneath the Acacias](/go/read-lucy-corne-on-all-about-beer/)