Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival 2014

Castle Lager – our venue

Josh Enslin (Castle Lager), Russell Hunt (Castle Lager) and Riaan van der Walt (Somerset Budget)
enjoying some Castle and biltong.


The people behind the Biltong Festival:
Dipti Varghese (Design@Bay – Marketing and Advertising of the Festival),
Russell Hunt (Castle Lager – main sponsor),
Sarina Engelbrecht (Design@Bay – Media liaison) and
Marette Liddell (Blue Crane Route Municipality – Festival organizer).


Biltong Tasting Competition, Lourens Schoemand (Farmer’s Weekly) and Sarina Engelbrecht.


Blue Crane Route Municipality dignitaries having fun!

The 20th Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival was officially launched to the media on the 26th of May 2010. Held at Castle Lager’s Headquarters in Perseverance, Port Elizabeth, the media launch attracted a variety of media as well as guests from the Blue Crane Route Municipality, Cacadu District Municipality and Castle Lager.

Just 180 km from Nelson Mandela Bay, the picturesque town of Somerset East is now preparing itself for the event of the year ‐ the annual Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival. At the Launch, Castle Lager and the Blue Crane Route Municipality representatives, invited young and old to come ‘hang’ with friends and new acquaintances at this year’s Festival. Celebrating its twentieth (20th) year, the 2010 Biltong Festival hopes to harness the excitement and camaraderie of the Soccer World Cup. On this year’s menu, one will find over 300 stalls ‐ ranging from food, curios, outdoor, and product –; entertainment specifically for children, including face painting, Popsie the Clown; and for the more adventurous: paintball, quad biking and fly‐fishing demonstrations. Off‐course there will also be buckets of biltong, like kudu, beef, giraffe, buffalo and chicken, available.

But, the main course of the 2010 Biltong Festival, along with the samplings of biltong and Castle, is the entertainment line‐up for this year’s Festival. Festival enthusiasts can look forward to hearing some of South Africa’s most popular performers such as: SAMA winners Big NUZ, Dozi and Nianell, Gerhard Steyn, Emo Adams and his band, Heinz Winckler, Nadine, Broers and Prime Circle, to name but a few.

Check out the Festival Programme on www.eastcapebiltongfestival.co.za for a full list of entertainers.

Diarise 16 – 17 July 2010 and COME ‘HANG’ WITH US!