Africa & the Middle East

The beginning of South African craft, and it started the same year as the first wave of American microbreweries. Lex Mitchell — an ex-SAB brewer, and the man everyone in the country calls the…

St. George is Ethiopia's oldest commercial brewery — sitting on top of a home-brewing tradition in tella and tej that is far older than the country's lager.

Founded by Greg Crum and Russell Boltman, named for the mountain it sits under, and started in a Somerset West warehouse using milk cans before moving to Salt River and opening the taproom that…

Ghana's first brewery, and one of the few anywhere brewing seriously with cassava and sorghum instead of imported barley.

Egypt's Stella has nothing to do with the Belgian one. Two rival Alexandria and Cairo breweries launched beers of the same name in the 1890s, then merged.

Lebanon's national beer, brewing in Beirut since 1933 through a civil war, an occupation, an economic collapse and a port explosion. Heineken took majority control in 2003; in 2021 Philippe Jabre — a…

Tusker is named for the elephant that killed one of the founders. A century on it is still the beer of East Africa.

A German colonial legacy that stuck: Windhoek is still brewed to the Reinheitsgebot, which almost nobody outside Germany bothers with.

Star was the first beer ever brewed in Nigeria, and it still anchors the biggest beer market in West Africa.

Brewing in Morocco means operating in a market that permits alcohol but rarely celebrates it — a quieter trade than most.

Castle Lager's brewery became SABMiller and conquered the world — then was swallowed by the only brewer bigger than it.

Goldstar is a dark lager that stayed dark while the rest of the world went pale — and still leads its home market.

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Brewery states it brews and bottles in Amman

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Address given by the brewery as Main rd. Taybeh

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Reuters reported production of roughly 22

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Independent Batroun microbrewery.

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Farmhouse brewery on a former mango plantation outside Nsawam. Brewed with over 70% un-husked local grains; recipes developed with a Belgian university using broken rice…

Seed status: SEED VERIFIED. Established Lebanese brewing seed. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep. [Region Pass 04]

Seed status: SEED VERIFIED. Regional source identifies Primus and beer production in Rwanda. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep. [Region Pass 04]

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Cape Town brewery. Brewer's Lager reported gold at the 2023 South African National Beer Trophy.

Seed status: SEED VERIFIED. Regional source confirms Tusker brewed by Kenya Breweries Limited. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep. [Region Pass 04]

Seed status: SEED VERIFIED. Regional source documents NBL and principal beers. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep. [Region Pass 04]

Seed status: SEED VERIFIED. Regional source confirms Nile Special and other Ugandan beers. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep. [Region Pass 04]

Seed status: SEED VERIFIED. Regional source documents major Tanzanian beers. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep. [Region Pass 04]

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Lebanese Pale Ale reported to use a Lebanese spice profile including thyme

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Brews the Shepherds range; commercially launched 2015. Founding year 2013 from secondary reporting rather than a first-party statement.

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Identifies itself as Rwanda's first craft brewery. Sorghum IPA reported bronze at the African Beer Cup. Brewery relocated and resumed operations in 2026. Founding year…

Pass 01 Africa & Middle East. Operating Kampala brewery using locally produced and malted barley. Beer catalogue not cleanly exposed by the site retrieved — individual beer identities held for a…