Posts Tagged: Africa
Do They Know Their Hops From Their Cassava?
Posted by on Sunday, May 12, 2013 in - 4 comments
Some interesting statements from the Jamaican Agriculture Minister at the end of last week: • ...Roger Clarke on Thursday said a window of opportunity seems to be opening up for cassava farmers. While unwilling to disclose the issue of price, Clarke said Diageo, the parent company for Red Stripe …
Four Law Firms And Nasty Beer Marketing Tricks
Posted by on Monday, May 6, 2013 in - leave a comment
Even with a couple of law degrees, I was having a hard time understanding this article from Tanzania over a legal dispute between breweries that has advanced from a tribunal, the Fair Competition Commission, up to the Court of Appeal until I narrowed the text down to this: • ...SBL …
Beer Gardens As Community Centres In Zimbabwe
Posted by on Saturday, March 2, 2013 in - leave a comment
News of the reopening of a number of municipally owned beer gardens in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe may be news to locals but the description of what they are used for is pretty interesting, as we are told by a brewery spokesman: • ...those leasing the premises had undertaken to maintain certain social …
Macro Brewer SABMiller In The African Market
Posted by on Monday, October 22, 2012 in - 9 comments
I am entirely fascinated by the southern African beer marketplace with its overlaps of mass production industrial and the traditional product like this yeasty sorghum brew: • SABMiller’s Chibuku brand is also targeting home-brew users. It is made from locally grown sorghum and maize. Because of …
Two Million Britons Think Beer Source Of Fiber
Posted by on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 in - 6 comments
Odd nutritional news out of the UK today: • The Department of Health recommends a third of each daily main meal should consist of a starchy carbohydrate, such as bread, potatoes or pasta, preferably of a wholegrain variety. But the survey of more than 2,000 British adults for independent baker …
Medicine Treats Methanol Poisoning With Ethanol
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2011 in - leave a comment
I have no reason to question this bit of medical wisdom from Kenya but it is so simple and elegant that it is worth relaying: • ...when ethanol is introduced, the breakdown of methanol is delayed as ethanol, which is digested faster than methanol, takes over, thus quickly reversing the damage …
When To Have That Beer In Zimbabwe In 2012?
Posted by on Monday, August 15, 2011 in - 3 comments
Laws around beer reflect cultural norms both in how they regulate and how they express norms that are unregulated. Consider this proposed reform to the hours of sale law of Zimbabwe: • The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is crafting its own alcohol policy, which might alter the tough …
Where There Is Beer There Is Peace Revisited
Posted by on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in - 12 comments
When I was growing up, Ethiopia was one of those nations with the hallmark of being incessantly near collapse. Civil war unending. The famine. Now there is beer: • The Beemnet bar is one of those places in Addis Ababa which attracts Ethiopians of all ages. Increasingly locals are going here for …
Beer Puddles! Who Doesn't Like Beer Puddles??
Posted by on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in - 1 comment
...Or at least a story that happens to have "Beer Puddles as the headline: • Many of the Scuds had burst and spilled their contents and the tarmac was running with beer, sticky pools of the thick, cloudy beer forming puddles in the steep eroded cut-offs on the edge of the tar. Some of the crates …
It's A Great Big Beer Drinking Pot!
Posted by on Friday, June 11, 2010 in - 1 comment
I had no idea until the opening ceremonies that Soccer City, the main stadium build for World Cup 2010 is a replica of a South African communal beer drinking pot - the calabash. Please refer to your copy of Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals for more details as to how to use one's own village's calabash.
