I don’t know if you’re a beer drinker
- I am – and one of the things you need
to make beer drinkable is a hop. Why? It’s
a bittering agent, because the malt in beer
is really sweet. Now we don’t have hops
in Africa, because the climate isn’t right,
we don’t have enough, er, hours of daylight. But we do have our own equivalent, which
has been used traditionally in beer brewing
across Africa for thousands of years, and
that’s this thing, the Sausage Tree. So
the fruit of the Sausage Tree are used as
a bittering agent, and have actually been
used in modern times by brewers. Really really
really interesting, especially as we don’t,
as I’ve said, have hops on our continent.
So we’re going to use this instead. I’d
love you to taste some beer brewed with Kigelia
Africana, but I can’t pour it down the phone,
so, sorry guys!
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