Castel Malawi

Commercial Brewery in Blantyre, Malawi 🇲🇼
Owned by Castel Group

Established in 1968

Contact
P.O. Box 406, Blantyre, Malawi
Description
In 2016 Carlsberg sold a 59% share of Carlsberg Malawi Limited (CML, previously The Bottling and Brewing Group Limited) to Castel Group. As part of the agreement, the Group has agreed a license agreement with CML to continue to produce and sell Carlsberg in Malawi.

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4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle at several establishments across Malawi. This time at Camp Macondo in Mzuzu. Basically no smell. Light look. Taste is pretty non existant and to be honest this is why it's my go-to beer in Malawi. The others taste crappy but this is virtually water so its inoffensive.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Aug 2025 at 14:49


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle at a bar in Cape Maclear. A thin uninticing lager really - would rather have a kuche kuche I believe !

Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2025 at 15:03


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle from off-license in Blantyre. Sweet honey aroma. Little confused taste but fairly drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2025 at 17:56


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Bottle from off-license in Blantyre. Up there surely with one of the worst beers ever. The aroma was sugar water. Clear looking. Incredibly sweet that makes it almost drinkable but then you look at the ingrediants....lordy lord....if you have to put "beer flavour" in a beer, something has gone very very wrong. Sort it out castel.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2025 at 16:58


6

Freshly imported … from Malawi 🇲🇼!! Cheers to my private importer, Andrea!!! Bland but still rather solid. Plenty of worse beers.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2025 at 20:36


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Old rating from 1996 - bottle enjoyed on a number of occasions on my 3 week trip. Pours golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of apple, cereal grain, grass & sweet malt. Light body. Clean sweet malty finish

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 18:26


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Thankt to mr Marek for beer from a new Country (no. 186 - Malawi) piwo ma spora piane co przy egzotyce nieco zaskakuje, nawet sie dobrze trzyma, barwa bursztynowa za ciemna jak na zwyklego lagera. Blizej piwu i wygladem i zwlaszcza smakiem do wiedenskiej wersji lagera. Lekko karmelowe, slodkawe, nie wyczuwa sie wodnistosci co przy dalekich krajach czy wyspach jest dosc czeste.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2024 at 14:37


6

Sample from the share. Sweet malts, smooth, light carbonation. Actually quite pleasant. Thanks Gus H.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2024 at 00:58


5

Thanks Gus H. via Dan for this sweet Malawi brew!

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2024 at 12:30


6.4

Malawi 🇲🇼

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2024 at 12:25