Kingdom Breweries

Kingdom Breweries (Cambodia) Ltd. was established in 2009 to produce and market a range of premium beers in Cambodia. The company was conceived by Patrick Davenport and Douglas Clayton of investment firm Leopard Capital who recruited Peter Brongers to write the business plan and turn it into reality. It became a start-up venture of Leopard Cambodia Fund, Cambodia's first private equity fund, which holds 55% ownership. Kingdom Breweries has converted the former Nestle beverages plant located on Phnom Penh’s north-end riverfront into a showcase microbrewery. Through large open windows one can look inside and see the brewery in action. The building was originally designed by Mr. Uk Sameth of the School of Vann Molyvann in the late sixties, in the "New Khmer Architecture" style, functional but with clear Khmer elements. Visitors are invited to tour Kingdom’s state-of-the-art European production facility to learn how beer is brewed and bottled, before sampling Kingdom’s products in the upstairs TapRoom overlooking a panoramic river view.
Founding CEO Peter Brongers assembled a team of renowned beer experts to produce an exceptional product. Chairman and Senior Advisor Jim Napier is a retired Carlsberg executive with 52 years of brewery management experience, including overseeing the creation and launch of Beer Chang, which became the top-selling beer in Thailand. Kingdom’s German brewmaster, Peter Haupenthal, has built a global reputation for creating award-winning beers in five continents.
With a strong, crisp and slightly bitter aftertaste, Kingdom Pilsener is certainly in a different league from the regular lager. Perfect on a hot day, half a pint of the brew leaves a sense of having drunk real beer, not average dishwater.

Kingdom Breweries' Clouded Leopard Pilsner will be "behind bars" in September 2010.
Cambodian Beer Market
Listen to Guy Delauney's report on BBC World Service: Kingdom leads the story on beer in Cambodia.
Average beer consumption in Cambodia currently stands at a lowly seven litres per person per year. The beer market here is growing very fast.

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