UNHACKED: Nile Breweries launches Nile Special Stout; beer goes on sale this Friday

Nile Breweries Ltd in November 2019 launched this Nile Special Stout beer. The company says, the beer is made 99% of Ugandan ingredients- barley and maize, locally grown in Uganda, then malted in Jinja and brewed at the Source of the Nile, using water from the mighty Nile River. The company’s Country Director, David Valencia says, they, between 2019 and 2020 have increased the share of local raw materials in the production process from 74.3% to 93.8% in 2020. Nile Breweries in 2019 spent UGX250 billion in procuring goods and services from suppliers across Uganda and this included UGX52 billion in agriculture inputs from Ugandan farmers, that increased to UGX80 billion in 2020. PHOTO/Courtesy