Namibia Breweries Limited

Namibia Breweries Limited
Location Windhoek
Namibia
Coordinates 22°31′25.24″S 17°4′44.20″E / 22.5236778°S 17.0789444°ECoordinates: 22°31′25.24″S 17°4′44.20″E / 22.5236778°S 17.0789444°E
Opened 1920
Website www.namibiabreweries.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:


Brewed under licence:

Distribute:


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.

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.

External links

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