Nile Breweries has launched two new facilities - a Barley malting plant and an effluent treatment plant - at their headquarters in Jinja. Speaking at the launch on November 3, Nick Jenkinson, the managing director, said the malting plant has the capacity to produce 15,000 tons of malt per year, thus consuming about 20,000 tons of local barley.

He said the new plant was inspired by the success of Epuripur sorghum, which has seen the sales of Eagle Lager and Eagle Extra soaring from one million cases per annum in 2003 to over seven million cases per annum in 2011 and sorghum usage rising to nearly 8,000 tons per year, which provides income worth Shs 7.6 billion to an estimated 9,000 farmers in 19 districts.

“We anticipate that demand for local barley will provide employment for another 5,000 to 10,000 farmers in various districts across the country,” Jenkins said.

The effluence treatment plant processes all the liquid waste from the brewery and the malting plant, and return it to the River Nile “cleaner than when it was extracted.”  Meanwhile, SABMiller plc, the parent company of Nile Breweries, recently launched ‘Impala,’ the first ever cassava-based beer, in Mozambique.

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