On Brewing Banana Beer

It was Kitereza’s novel that made me want to taste banana beer myself. After a few months living on Ukerewe, I was thirsting for a change from Kilimanjaro beer, a watery bottled lager. Not yet addled enough by the equatorial sun to resort to konyagi, the cheap sugar cane gin consumed neat by Tanzania’s most dedicated drinkers, I asked around about mpahe.