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Balashi

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Industry
  
Alcoholic beverage

Area served
  
Caribbean

Founded
  
1999

Headquarters
  
Aruba

Products
  
Beer

Type of business
  
Brewery


Aruba balashi brewery


Brouwerij Nacional Balashi is an Aruban brewery whose flagship product is the beer Balashi.

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Balashi tv commercial


History

Brouwerij Nacional Balashi was founded in 1996 by one of Aruba’s largest companies, MetaCorp. Construction started in 1998 and the first beer was brewed eight months later in May 1999. In 2001, Balashi, the flagship beer for the company, won a gold medal in the prestigious “Monde Selection” in Brussels. Balashi was the brewery’s first uniquely Aruban product, with malt imported from Scotland, hops from Germany, and made using the island’s water. Balashi contains no artificial additives, and is now being exported to Curaçao and Bonaire.

Balashi has been described as tasting like a Dutch pilsner, most likely due to the Dutch heritage of its native Aruba.

References

Balashi Wikipedia