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Castle Brewery is one of the oldest commercial breweries in South Africa. As company-endorsed legend would have it, the company was founded by Charles Glass in Johannesburg in 1894. UCT history professor Anne Kelk Mager has argued that the official SAB story overemphasized the role of Charles and that it was his wife Lisa Glass who was ...
Castle Lager is a South African pale lager. It is the flagship product of South African Breweries and has been recognised as the National Beer of South Africa [citation needed], [1] based on the fact that it is 100% grown and produced in the country. [citation needed]
South Africa accounts for 34% of Africa's formal beer market and is expected to grow by 8–10% annually over the next five years. Beer consumption in the country was pegged at 60 litres per capita in 2012, greater than the 14.6-litre African average and the global average of 22 litres.
South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016. [2]
It won "best beer on show" at the 2011, 2012 and 2014 Cape Town Festival of Beer and the 2014 Johannesburg Festival of Beer and was the winner of the 2014 SAB Craft Brewer Championship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The First Light Golden Ale is named so because the eastern-facing slopes of Devils Peak are among the first to see the morning sunlight in Cape Town ...
Beer (known as pombe in Swahili) is an integral part of Tanzanian society, and local brands hold a strong sense of national pride and economic value. Tanzania is the sixth-largest per-capita consumer of beer in Africa. [3] Over 90% of beer consumption is of homemade-style brews; however the most recognizable bottled brands include: [4]
Currently, shebeens are legal in South Africa and have become an integral part of South African urban culture, serving diverse commercial brands from beer, cider to whisky as well as umqombothi, a traditional African beer made from maize and sorghum. Shebeens still form an important part of today's social scene.
The Ohlsson's Cape Breweries was a South African brewing company located in Newlands, Cape Town. [1] It was founded around 1881 by a Swedish immigrant and industrialist, Anders Ohlsson. [2] Ohlsson's was bought out by Castle Breweries and merged to form South African Breweries in 1956.