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

Bottle. Thx Knut Albert. Pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma is butter, malt, fruit. Flavour is butter, malt, metallic, fruit. Weak beer.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2012 at 00:06


3.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

Bottle 500ml
[Courtesy of KnutAlbert] Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, grain and floral. Taste is light sweet and light bitter. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2012 at 08:44


3.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Clear pale golden body with a white head. Not much aroma, light grainy. Not much flavor either, light grain, malt, hint of fruit and low bitterness. No real faults, just rather boring. Easy come, easy go.

Tried on 27 Oct 2012 at 00:21


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Bottle, courtesy of Knut Albert. It’s a clear, pale golden beer topped by a small, white head. The aroma is on the malty side, with some fruitiness and a touch of cardboard. Rather thin on the palate, almost watery, with low carbonation. A faint touch of bitterness in the flavour, with pale malts and some notes of cardboard. Mostly fruity finish. Drinkable indeed, but really boring. 121026

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2012 at 23:22


2.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Very pale yellow with a small white head. Light malt aroma. Very waterish and very light flavour.
[Bottle. Gift from Malawi.]

Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2012 at 10:38


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

Bottle courtesy of Ryan (not ryan), thanks to Travlr! Pretty standard European style, in the exact same vein of the Denmark variety. Pale yellow, unremarkable aroma, flavor, and look.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2011 at 23:02


3.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1

Bottle courtesy of Ryan (not ryan), thank you sir! Pours very pale yellow, tiny white head, no lacing. Aroma of cardboard and straw. Taste is dilute white pepper and water. Oh well.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2011 at 15:52


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Beer is called "Carlsberg Classic", made in Malawi by Carlsberg Malawi. Has no identification on the bottle aside from the front branded label. Label mentions a website called www.sobomw.com which doesn’t seem to be functioning. Smells like wet wood and hops, still a faint smell, not strong. Points for this beer having a nice dark amber hue, no points for the lack of head. Taste is all right, a bit syrupy, with dark malts coming through and some sweetness, slightly bitter aftertaste. Feels good in the mouth too. Definitely one of the better of the Carlsberg beers.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2009 at 07:16


4.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Doesn’t smell nearly strong enough to be a stout, some scent of barley and hops but not much. But yup, looks like a stout for sure and has a nice head to boot. Sticks around for awhile, which is all I personally want. Not a strong flavour for a stout, in fact a very weak flavour. Kind of syrupy, sort of like molasses. Seems to be a weaker excuse for a stout but I guess it’s pretty good if you’re just measuring it by Malawi stout standards - as the only one available!

Tried on 31 Aug 2009 at 06:05


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

Smells like corn starch and alcohol, maybe some dried bush weeds in there too. Has some head if poured aggressively but it disappears quick. Colour is a lighter shade of yellow, not too appetizing looking if you ask me. Flavour is closer to a light beer than a real beer: some breadiness, some very faint malts and hops, but this is a chugging beer. At 3.7% alcohol you can do exactly that and not feeling anything, too! Malawi has better beers than this thanks to the Carlsberg brewery there, and aside from the novelty factor of Malawi’s one and only personally Malawian beer, it isn’t much to get excited about.

Tried from Can on 31 Aug 2009 at 06:01