South Africa is a country not known so much for the peculiarities of its individual beers, but for its beer producers, or rather producer: the South African colossus SABMiller (formerly SAB or South African Breweries Limited) bought not only the US beer brand Miller, but recently completed a takeover of Australia's own Fosters. It truly is a mighty giant amongst giants as far as industrial beer producers go. They hold a 98% market share in the South African market and significant ownership all over the world.
But how does their own flagship South African beer, Castle Lager taste? I tried some at a local Newtown restaurant called Smash (specialising in sausages and mash, nice!), and it went down fairly well. It's a fairly generic lager, but with a bit more grainy body and punch than your average generic European lager, reminding me a bit more of Australian beers such as Carlton Draught. It was not bad to wash down some spicy sausages with, but it's no craft beer and I wouldn't go running out of my way to find another one.
Name: Castle Lager
Country of production: Republic of South Africa
Style: Lager
Taste: Decent grainy body, moderate slightly bitter finish, not too interesting
Cost: around AU$7 per bottle
Availability in AU: Low
Cred: Low medium
My score: 6 out of 10 carjackings
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