Cambrew Brewery is the largest brewery in Cambodia, situated in

Sihanoukville Sihanoukville (, ), also known as Kampong Saom (, ) or Preah Sihanouk (, ), is a coastal city in Cambodia and the capital of Preah Sihanouk Province, at the tip of an elevated peninsula in the country's south-west on the Gulf of Thailand. T ...

. The brewery produces

Angkor Beer Angkor Beer (, ) is a Cambodian lager, named after the iconic Khmer Angkor temples near Siem Reap Siem Reap (, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Camb ...

(the most widely consumed beer in the country and acknowledged as Cambodia's national beer), Klang Beer, Bayon Beer, Angkor Extra Stout and Black Panther Premium Stout.

History

An earlier brewing company, known as SKD Brewery (''Société des Khmere Distilleries'') was commissioned by the Cambodian Government in the early 1960s and built by a French contractor with technical assistance from France. The brewery was officially opened by HRH

Prince Sihanouk Norodom Sihanouk (; 31 October 192215 October 2012) was a member of the House of Norodom, Cambodian royal house who led the country as Monarchy of Cambodia, King, List of heads of state of Cambodia, Chief of State and Prime Minister of Cambodi ...

in 1965. The brewery building was designed by Cambodian architect

Vann Molyvann Vann Molyvann (; 23 November 1926 – 28 September 2017) was a Cambodian architect and urban planner. Molyvann is best known as pioneering the style known as New Khmer Architecture, which combined Modernist architect, modernism and Khmer archite ...

during the 'golden period' of

New Khmer Architecture New Khmer Architecture () was an architectural movement in Cambodia during the 1950s and 1960s. The style blended elements of the Modern movement with two distinctly Cambodian traditions: the great Khmer tradition of Angkor and the vernacular arc ...

. The main office building follows the distinctive 'dong raik' architectural design form in which the upper floor overhangs the ground floor by several metres, highlighted and reflected in the shape of the distinctive triangle supports in the facade.

was chosen as the site for the brewery for the quality of the local water which supposedly had the ideal mineral content for brewing beer. The choice of Sihanoukville was not without controversy at the time due to the distance from the bottle manufacturing plant near

Phnom Penh Phnom Penh is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Cambodia, most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since 1865 and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its political, economic, industr ...

. The brewery produced lager beer, marketed under the brand names Angkor Beer and Bayon Beer. The brewery's operations were disrupted when civil war broke out in the early 1970s and it closed in 1975. In 1991 Cambrew Ltd (a Malaysian company) assumed control of the brewery and after nine months of refurbishment, the brewery recommenced production in 1992. In 1992 Cambrew entered into a joint venture with

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for bottling and distribution of soft drinks in Cambodia. In 2005 the

Carlsberg Group Carlsberg A/S (; ) is a Danish multinational brewer. Founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen, the company's headquarters is in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since Jacobsen's death in 1887, the majority owner of the company has been the Carlsberg Foundation. Th ...

purchased a 50% holding in the brewery. In 2011 the Angkor Extra Stout was awarded the Grand Gold award from

Monde Selection Monde Selection is an annual non-competitive award open to food, drinks, and cosmetics products, created in 1961. It is run by the commercial company, International Institute for Quality Selections, Brussels Brussels, officially the Brusse ...

of Belgium. Angkor Premium Beer won the Gold Medal at the Monde Selection in 2013. In 2018 Carlsberg increased its stake in the brewery to 75%.

Beers

* Angkor Premium Beer - a

Pale Lager Pale lager is a pale-to- golden lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. In the mid-19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Bre ...

(5.0% alc/vol) available in 330ml can, 330ml bottle, and 640ml bottle * Angkor Extra Stout - an Extra

Stout Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout. Stout is a type of ale. The first known use of the word "stout" for beer is in a document dated 1677 in the E ...

(8.0% alc/vol) available in 330ml Bottle, and 640ml bottle * Klang Beer - a strong

Lager Lager (; ) is a Type of beer, style of beer brewed and Brewing#Conditioning, conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be Pale lager, pale, Amber lager, amber, or Dark lager, dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially availab ...

(6.0% alc/vol) available in 330ml can * Bayon Beer - a

(4.6% alc/vol) available in 330ml can * Black Panther Premium Stout - a

(8.0% alc/vol) available in 330ml can. It has a strong malt odour. * Carlsberg Draught - a

Pilsner Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery. History ...

(5.0% alc/vol)

References

External links

Angkor Beer website
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