Bila Shaka Brewery

Microbrewery in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪
Associated with 2 Venues

Contact
2 Deloitte Lane, off Waiyaki Way, Nairobi, Kenya
Description
Former name: "Bateleur Brewery".

Based in Kedong Valley along the edge of the Great Rift Valley escarpment in Kenya. We are an independent brewery with a goal to produce the best craft beer we can. All hand forged in Kenya using only natural ingredients while running on 100% renewable energy.

From the beginning we have brewed all our beers using biofuel. Our electrical energy is sourced from geothermal power. All our bottles are returnable and used multiple times to ensure minimal waste. Our bottles are washed using heat from a biomass boiler. Our spent grain is fed to rescued animals at our animal shelter. Craft beer can give back too.

We also protect thousands of acres of forest and are reforesting areas that have been damaged by excessive grazing and hacking.

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Draught @ Sina Shaka Taproom (7/15/19). Opaque dark brown with small foamy beige head, roasted malt-rum aroma, low carbonation, bitter mocha-roasted malt taste with rum, alcohol undertones, thin body, long bitter boozy finish. Quite fine for an imperial stout.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2019 at 17:45

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Draught @ Sina Shaka Taproom (7/15/19.) Cloudy golden with small foamy white head, very faint mango aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter mango-melon taste, thin body, long finish. Flavorful.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2019 at 17:42

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Draught @ Sina Shaka Taproom (7/15/19). Faintly cloudy pale yellow with small foamy white head, faint doughy aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter light citrus flavor, thin body, longish finish. Hoppy lager.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2019 at 17:38

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Draught @ Sina Shaka Taproom (7/15/19). Clear dark brown with reddish tint, small creamy beige head, very faint caramel aroma, low carbonation, bitter coffee-roasted malt taste, thin body, long bitter finish. Another bitter one.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2019 at 17:22

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Draught @ Sina Shaka Taproom (7/15/19). Extremely juicy bright yellow with small foamy off-white head, faint piney aroma, low carbonation, bitter grapefruit-piney taste mango flavor, somewhat thick body, long finish. Bitter.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2019 at 17:20

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Draught @ Sina Shaka Taproom. Cloudy pale yellow with small foamy white head, faint citrus aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter lemon rind taste, thin body, long finish. A bit weak but good flavors.
Tried from Draft on 16 Sep 2019 at 17:13

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From Trapped: pours copper with white head. Aroma is malty, lightly hoppy, sort of metallic. Taste is a bit thin. Low sweetness, some bitterness and some metal.
Tried on 01 Sep 2019 at 22:01

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Bottle. Pours faintly cloudy pale yellow with large foamy white head, faint doughy aroma, high carbonation, mildly bitter honey malt taste with coriander flavor, thin body, abrupt finish. Nothing remarkable.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2019 at 18:03

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Bottle, from Village Market, Nairobi. Pours clear reddish dark amber, large foamy light beige head, coffee-caramel aroma, medium carbonation, bitter coffee taste over caramel background, thin body, long bitter finish. A strange brew; coffee has not worked well in amber ale.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2019 at 11:25

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Bottle, from Village Market, Nairobi. Pours clear golden yellow, foamy large light beige head, sweet hay aroma, medium carbonation, lightly citrusy banana-hay taste, thin smooth body, long finish. Quite smooth and tasty, well crafted.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2019 at 11:23