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Mongozo’s Mondo Fair Trade Ales
(I originally published this story about Mongozo Brewing on fermentingrevolution.com in 2004.) Mongozo beers have some unusual influences: political turmoil, famine, creative fusion, and changing...
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Reporting for Active Beer Duty
by Melanee Meegan, the Minnesota Beer Activist I had the fortune of staying with Chris O’Brien, when I traveled to Ethiopia last year. Per his request to bring beer with me, I traveled to Ethiopia...
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Sorghum Beer, Carbonation, Decoction, Racism, and Other Delights: A Night...
It turns out that Jason Oliver, regional brewery supervisor for Gordon Biersch, and I share an interest in South African sorghum beers. He’s visited there twice and fondly recalls these sour pink ales....
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Don’t Have to Drink Like a Refugee
A couple weeks ago I caught a showing of a documentary about the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars that was playing in the DC Film Fest. The band is literally a bunch of refugees from Sierra Leone. One of...
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Uganda’s Ajono Homebrew
When I traveled to Uganda about five years ago it was to visit coffee farmers in the mountains who were growing organically and selling through the fair trade certification chain. Of course, I looked...
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The Session #6 Fruit Beer: Mfula Mfula, Pineapple Beer from Zululand
(The Session is a monthly group blogging event. Learn more about it here.) This month’s topic for The Session is fruit beer, hosted by Greg Clow at Beer, Beats, and Bites. Here’s my contribution to the...
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An Academic Symposium Returns to Alcohol
According to Etymology Online, the term “symposium” came from the Greek for “drinking party” or “convivial gathering of the educated.” I expect that will be the case at this upcoming conference:...
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Beer and Chips
When I was a college student living in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, I virtually lived on a diet of warm Tusker beer and chips. Chips as in french fries, not as in crisps. Kenya was colonized by...
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Obama Beer
Drinking beer and talking politics. Two great past times that taste great together. That is until I read that I live in a so-called “wine track” state. That’s what Thomas Schaller, associate professor...
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Did Beer Drinking Free Masons Build the Pyramids?
In Fermenting Revolution, I wrote about how the pyramids were built on beer. This much has been known for some time now. Not only do many of the pyramids of Egypt have beer chambers and beer offerings...
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