Umqombothi: A South African Tradition
Easier to brew than it is for many people to say—it takes a click of the tongue—this ancient sorghum beer is unlike any modern style we know. Thick, tart, and creamy, it’s deeply traditional—yet it’s also open to a brewer’s own creative twists.
By Lucy Corne
STYLE SCHOOL: UMQOMBOTHI
“IT’S KIND OF LIKE CHUNKY, sour pudding,” says the message in my inbox. It’s Day Three of our umqombothi brew, and this was the morning dispatch from Paul Telford, a homebrewer in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Underground Brewers club.
Telford had stepped...
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