Nile Breweries
Commercial Brewery
in
Kampala,
Uganda 🇺🇬
Owned by
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Established in 1951
Contact
10 Port Bell Rd, Kampala, Uganda
Description
Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) was established in 1951 by a group of businessmen, associated with the Construction of Owen Falls Dam. After several ownerships, SABMiller Plc, the world’s 2nd largest brewer in the world, acquired the company in 2001 from the Madhvani family. The combined capacity of Nile Breweries Limited with two plants in Jinja and Mbarara stands at 2.45 million hectolitres of beer, making NBL the No 1 provider of locally produced beer in Uganda with a 59% market share. The company was recognized as The Investor of The Year 2015 by Uganda Investment Authority.
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as Nile Special (Lager) (by Nile Breweries (AB InBev)):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5
9/IV/16 - 50cl bottle from ... shit, I forgot @ home - BB: 15/XII/15 (2016-329) Thanks to the very kind person who helped me reach my 126th country tick!
Note: I feel really guilty not remembering who got me this gem... I do know I've been waiting for an occasion to share this with other country tickers as well. In any case, thanks a mill!
Clear pale yellowish beer, small creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grains, bit weird, musty, wet grains. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty start, some citrus, little chemical, sweet touch. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, bit sugary, some banana, yeast touch.
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5
9/IV/16 - 50cl bottle from ... shit, I forgot @ home - BB: 15/XII/15 (2016-329) Thanks to the very kind person who helped me reach my 126th country tick!
Note: I feel really guilty not remembering who got me this gem... I do know I've been waiting for an occasion to share this with other country tickers as well. In any case, thanks a mill!
Clear pale yellowish beer, small creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grains, bit weird, musty, wet grains. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty start, some citrus, little chemical, sweet touch. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, bit sugary, some banana, yeast touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2016
at 15:12
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Many thanks for this beer to Erzengel.Clear golden color with fat white head, stays. Watery, light hop, corn and boiled potato water taste. Very booring.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2015
at 13:28
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 5
Many thanks to Erzengel for sharing! Pours clear pale golden colour with a medium white head. Aroma of grain and pale malt. Taste is grainy, mild hops, pale malt...
Tried
on 12 Oct 2015
at 12:59
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 2.5
Many thanks to Travlr for this bottle! Grainy nose. The beer starts rough and grainy. Hints of sweetness in the back, very dry with a strange sharp aroma. The body is not too smooth, sweetish-round, the aftertaste is short, not much bitterness, grainy with a strange sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2015
at 10:54
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4
Premium lager from Uganda allegedly brewed with water from the Nile, thanks to Dorian and Sabine! From a 50 cl bottle. First time I see artificially added carbon dioxide explicitly mentioned on the label; "maize grits" are also mentioned - at least this brewery is honest about that, which does gain my sympathy. Pours a very light yellowish blonde, paler than average, with a slight greenish hue and lively fizz, sustaining a regularly shaped, moussy, snow white, nicely lacing head with pretty good retention. Simple and typical neutral ’macro lager’ aroma of popcorn, iron, some (even rotting) grass, white bread, soap. Sweetish grainy taste, obvious corn but some pleasantly bready pale malts as well, thin and metallic, bit watery body with medium carbonation, dull sourish accent, finishing in only mildly bittering grassy hops, which, however subtle they are, do provide a little bit of balance against the grain sweetness and lay a thin resiny coat on the back of the mouth cavity along with a subtle, slightly rubbery chemical wryness, though the ending remains watery. Straightforward, thin and bland, that is clear, but this is still a bit better than I had expected. I can imagine this being very quenching on a hot day in central Africa and I must say I had much worse tropical lagers than this. Interesting country tick too, of course.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2015
at 16:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared in Hoboken - big thanks to Andy. Pours clear yellow-gold with a frothy white head. The nose has some cereal, pale bread, musty grains. Medium sweet flavor with some creamy white bread, some hay, paper. Light bodied with average carbonation. Sugary cereal, pale bread finish with mild bitter hay, vague citrus, grass. So so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2014
at 19:57
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy bready aroma. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2013
at 05:26
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is cornish and syrupy. Sweet cornish and grassy. Bitter, grassy and cornish into a medium dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2013
at 05:26
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle @ Johns, Århus newyear tasting. Pours light yellow with a white head. Aroma of malt, grain, little ripe apples. Flavor is malt, sugar, ripe fruit. Thin to medium body, lively carbonation. 291213
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2013
at 05:24
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle, 5.6%. Clear yellow with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, little grainy and corn. Flavour is malt, fruit, medium sweet, grainy, thin and a little watery, Flavour is
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2013
at 05:24