Jump to content

Namibia Breweries Limited

Coordinates: 22°31′25.24″S 17°4′44.20″E / 22.5236778°S 17.0789444°E / -22.5236778; 17.0789444
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cyberfan195 (talk | contribs) at 23:08, 21 January 2020 (→‎External links: adding it to Food and drink companies established in 1920.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Namibia Breweries Limited
File:Namib Breweries Limited.jpg
LocationWindhoek,
Namibia
Coordinates22°31′25.24″S 17°4′44.20″E / 22.5236778°S 17.0789444°E / -22.5236778; 17.0789444
Opened1920
Websitewww.nambrew.com
Active beers
Name Type
Windhoek Lager Lager
Windhoek Light Light beer
Hansa Pilsener Pilsener
Tafel Lager Lager

Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) is a Namibian brewery founded in 1920 when Carl List and Hermann Ohlthaver acquired four small breweries with financial difficulties. The breweries were merged under the name South West Breweries Limited (SWB). SWB changed its name to Namibia Breweries Limited when Namibia gained independence on March 21, 1990. Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies are still the majority shareholder.

Products

Bottles of Windhoek Lager

Own products:

  • Club Shandy
  • Tafel Lager
  • Tafel Lite
  • Tafel Radler
  • Urbock
  • Windhoek Draught
  • Windhoek Lager
  • Windhoek Light
  • Windhoek Non-alcoholic
  • McKane: Soda Water, Tonic Water, Lemonade, Dry Lemon
  • Vigo (malt soft drink): Marula, Wild Orange, Kiwano

Brewed under licence:

  • Amstel Lager[1]
  • Amstel Lite
  • Heineken

Distribute:

  • Guinness
  • Erdinger
  • Erdinger Non-alcoholic
  • Foundry Cider
  • Archers Aqua (various flavours)

NBL brew all of their beers according to the Reinheitsgebot (German purity law) from 1516. Other than the four top-selling beers NBL also produces some speciality beers like Urbock - a winter bock beer. Nambrew also distributes other beer brands like Erdinger Weissbeer, Guinness and Kilkenny in the region. The low alcohol (2%), low calorie product Windhoek Light was endorsed by the South African Heart Foundation.[2]

Production

Currently NBL exports 60% of its production to South Africa and 22 other countries world-wide.

Renewable energy

NBL have invested in a 1.MW Solar Power plant. This is installed on existing roof structures.

References

  1. ^ "Beer Brands". Namibia Breweries Limited. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa| Preventing Heart Disease & Strokes". www.heartfoundation.co.za. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Beers of Namibia.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Namibia_Breweries_Limited&oldid=936938436"