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tradi onal beers. These beers are s ll brewed in
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many sub-Saharan Africa – both on a commercial and
home brewing. Recipes must have been modified to
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indica on that what we can taste today reflects the
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of corn from Mexico. But the brewing of sorghum
beers remains considerably basic: A mash is prepared
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from malted grains – but the spent grains are not
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completely separated from the wort. And the
resul ng liquid is neither boiled nor are bi ering
agents added at any stage of the brewing process.
(SOUTH) AFRICA and beer These types of beer differ from our common lagers
We have very li le knowledge about the first beers and ales in many ways: They contain large amounts of
that na ve Africans brewed thousands of years ago. insoluble materials as well as residual sugars. They
But given the fact that several varie es of millet undergo a lac c fermenta on and an alcoholic
(most prominently sorghum) are widely available fermenta on and have to be consumed while they
crops in many parts of Africa, we can safely assume are s ll fermen ng – when sweetness and acidity are
that sorghum beers have been around for a very long well in balance, and the alcohol content is quite low.
me. Sorghum, unlike barley, is very well adapted to These tradi onal beers are part of the diet of people
the semi-arid and sub-tropical condi ons prevailing of color, but in recent years cra brewers have
over most of the African con nent – it is easy to grow successfully brewed both Bri sh and Belgian style
and can be used for making porridge as well as those ales based on sorghum.