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64 | Autumn 2021 | ontapmag.co.za MASH OUT May is Africa month, so we asked our readers: TSIKWE MOLOBYE Author of Lockdown Dranks, Johannesburg I would be in Moshi, Tanzania, right at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro drinking mbege . It is a wild fermented traditional beer brewed by the women of the Chagga tribe. Made from bananas, finger millet and small amounts of quinine bark, it’s a very tasty beer that is sweet and sour with a slight bitter kick. JACO DE WAAL All-grain homebrew fanatic and IPA obsessive, Johannesburg Drinking a Tusker and watching the sun set over Fort Jesus from English Point in Mombasa while listening to the evening call to prayer. JACKIE ROBINSON Co-owner of Saggy Stone Brewing Co., Robertson If I could be anywhere in Africa it would be in Spitzkoppe, Namibia with one of our Citra Novas or an ice cold Rocky River Pale Ale. Or if I was to choose a local beer, then always a Tafel Lager. DALE TER HAAR Homebrewer and founder of Gaborone City Brew Crew, Gaborone Wherever is closest to Gaborone that is selling any cold beer as we are on a Covid-19 six-week booze ban and counting... PETER HAMPSHIRE Beer enthusiast and homebrewer, Johannesburg I’d be on Kipepeo Beach in Dar es Salaam, drinking Serengeti Lager. I used to go there frequently on my day off when I was technical manager for two casinos in Dar. Drank many a Serengeti there! The head brewer was a German who lived in the flat above me. BRUCE WILLIAMSON Veteran homebrewer, Johannesburg Drinking Seybrew on Providence Atoll – only a few people get to go there. It’s in the Farquhar group of Islands 700km South of Mahe, which is the main island in Seychelles. Less than 1000 people have set foot on it. I am a mad keen fly fisherman and have been to several other atolls nearby, but Providence is the ultimate...one of the wildest places left. GREG CASEY Owner of Afro Caribbean Brewing Co. and Banana Jam Café, Cape Town I think I would be happiest on the bench outside Striped Horse Bar looking out at the waves at Muizenberg Beach. Sun on my face, slight off-shore wind on my back and a pint of our Session 157 in hand (at the time of this question I had been away for two months and missing our beers…) IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE ON THE CONTINENT, DRINKING ANY AFRICAN BEER, WHERE WOULD YOU BE AND WHAT WOULD YOU BE SIPPING ON?