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What is the “other” in Africa? What they drinking over der

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Never lived there for long, but VERY briefly lived in Gambia for work for a few months a while back. Most people didn’t drink but most that did drank palm wine, which I’m assuming would be classified as “other” instead of “wine” here.

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I’m trying to figure out what the other is anywhere. My America must be showing, but I can’t think what other could be at all

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Cider for example?

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I guess that would be other. In my head, that gets categorized as a type of beer.

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It depends on how they categorized things. People drink all sorts of fermented fruit and vegetable juices that could loosely be labeled “wine” or “cider”. There’s also a whole bunch of things that could also loosely be called “beer” like shake shake.

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Spent a year in the south/south east of Africa, and different variations of fermented maize beer were the most common alcoholic drink among locals.

Thobwa is the Malawian/Zambian version, while umqombothi is the South African one.

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Possibly things that are actively fermenting like kumis, kefir, or kombucha

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Bless your heart. 🫂

Moonshine. Of the worst kinds, sometimes.

To just name two sources:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/4/1/ugandas-ongoing-struggle-with-moonshine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409547/

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How is moonshine not spirits?

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Learned a bit about “other” from a different coolguides post the other day.

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I’m not sure about Africa specifically. These categories are vague enough that it’s kinda hard to say with confidence.

I know fermented milk is popular in Mongolia and central Asia. There’s also palm wine, from the sap of palm trees, rice wine like soju, mead and cider.

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