Habesha Breweries

Commercial Brewery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Owned by Royal Swinkels (Bavaria Brouwerij / Swinkels Family Brewers / SFB)

Established in 2015

Contact
Bole Airport, In front of Ethiopian Airlines Academy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description
Our brewery is made up of over 300 team members, that proudly give their best to serve you, our valued consumers, with the best beer they possibly can.

Just like the vast diversity in cultures, languages, and regions that represent Ethiopia, Habesha Breweries reflects all Ethiopians. Our people illustrate the beauty and rich diversity that one can find in Ethiopia.

Our team is working closely together with local farmers. We assist them in professionalizing their business, helping them to grow better quality barley. Their better quality seeds yield up to 30% higher profits, whilst our brewery guarantees strong demand for their produce.

Our beer is brewed from Ethiopia’s best water, directly sourced from the highland grounds of Debre Birhan, there where our proud and passionate people transform prime quality yeast, barley malt and hops into our beloved beer.

Note: Although the above description is interesting, many of their beers are brewed in Holland.

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4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
29-02-20 // bottle fro ma local Ethiopian restaurant. Clear pale golden. Sweetish corn and malts. Boring.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Feb 2020 at 14:05

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle at Café Omo (Ethiopian Restaurant) in the company of Arthur, Kostas, Giovanna, Xenofon, Anastasia and Peter. Pours gold, good clarity a nice white head atop. It's better than expected, ok it's a simple and probably mass produced lsger but it's ok. Lacks bitterness, too sweet, little in the way of hops, but refreshing and a good match for the meal.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Dec 2019 at 06:07

4.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle at an Ethiopian restaurant. Pours clear golden with white head. Herbal, grassy with a touch of citrus. Grainy and malty. Clean and crisp.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2019 at 21:55

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
330ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally musty, strawy, grainy aroma, hints of wet straw, a minimally bready touch, soapy hoppy overtones. Taste is strawy and grainy, pale malty, slightly grassy and minimally soapy hoppy, a minimally metallic touch. Watery texture, light body.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2019 at 12:33

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3
13/9/2019. Sample courtesy of saxo. Pours clear gold with a bubbly white head. Aroma of sweet malt, fruit, vanilla, biscuit, sugary sweets, caramel and straw. Medium to heavy sweetness, light bitterness. Moderate body, sticky texture, soft carbonation.
Tried on 13 Sep 2019 at 18:45

4/10
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2019 at 13:03

3.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottle 330ml. @ Johns. [ As Habesha Cold Gold ]. ABV: 5.0%. Clear medium yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, sweet malt, corn, grain, light grass. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, straw - grass, sharp, sweet malt - caramel, sweet malt - corn, light cardboard - bread. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20190831] 3-3-4-2-8
Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2019 at 19:41

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
12 oz bottle at Enatye in Herndon. Clear amber, medium body. Pils aroma, mild malty taste and slightly bitter finish. Inoffensive.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2019 at 17:01

5/10
Tried on 16 Aug 2019 at 21:51

3.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottle. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, grainy, hop and grass. Flavour is malt, grainy, hop, little sweet, little bitter and a little bread.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2019 at 14:24