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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3.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4

Sample thanks to Grumbo: Poured a clear golden with a white head. Aroma is grainy and malts, light sweet citrus. Taste is a bit bland and watery, malty, grassy, citrus.

Tried on 30 Apr 2022 at 19:54


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Sample, thanks to Grumbo. Shared with blackhaddock at our rare country / region mega tasting afternoon April 2022. Some sediment, which is strange for a lager. Lightly sweet, tastes light, a touch watery, some mild sweet grain. Ok

Tried on 27 Apr 2022 at 17:58


3.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

26th April 2022. Mega tasting with minutemat, pushing our countries, regions and brewery stats higher. 'Panda' via Grumbo. Golden body, white head, watery, weak and not really 'The Pride of Malawi' surely? Anyway country number 159 for me on RateBeer.

Tried on 27 Apr 2022 at 05:07


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Golden colour, white foam head and aroma of malt, grain, cardboard. Taste is sweetish, malt, grains, grassy, with cardboardy bitterness. Light bodied, high carbonation, drying metallic bitter finish. Another bland pale lager.

Tried on 23 Apr 2022 at 10:18


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

5/2/2022. Bottle shared by Erik, huge thanks. Pours clear dark gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma is sweet, malt, cardboard, grain, caramel, sweet fruit. Medium plus sweetness, light bitterness. Moderate body, oily watery texture, average carbonation. Sadly not very special.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Feb 2022 at 18:36


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

Beers of the World country 120: Malawi 🇲🇼

"Hard to tell anything about colour as I drank it from the bottle. It was normally carbonated and instantly reminded me of some of the African beers I’ve had before. Very little taste but some notes of malt does exist before finishing slightly more sweet. A typical African lager!" - beersoftheworldproject.wordpress.com

Date: 09/10/2019

Tried on 09 Oct 2019 at 18:00


3.5
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4

Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Spring Sipper, 2019. New country tick. Thanks Thomas. Pours clear pale yellow with a bubbly head. Corn and grains. Dust and maize. Thin and flabby. Poor.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2019 at 17:07


3.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Spring Sipper, 2019. Golden with a lasting white head. Aroma of grain, grass, pepper and cardboard. Sweet and thin cardboard flavour

Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2019 at 17:07


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Clear pale yellow colour, white head. Malty aroma, grains, wet cardboard. Malty flavour, grains. Bit thin. Finish grains, cattle feed. Another country tick :)
(from 33cL bottle @ BBF 2017, Bodegraven. Thanks for sharing, whoever brought this!)

Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2018 at 06:25


2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1

Bottle at rickgordon at home tasting, on October 13, 2017.Thanks to Nisse666!Hazy straw yellow color, white head. Malty, saké like scent. Weak papery taste. Papery aftertaste. Weak mouthfeel, low bitterness.3/2/1/1/2=0.9

Tried from Bottle on 21 Oct 2017 at 05:39