Beverage

Burukutu (Millet Beer)

Name: Burukutu (Millet Beer)
Total time: 3d
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Nigeria
Ingredients: 500g sorghum grains; 300g millet grains; 10 L water; Wild airborne yeast (uncovered ferment) or 5g brewer's yeast

Middle Belt sorghum-and-millet brew fermented in clay pots — cloudy, tart and mildly alcoholic.

3d 8 servings Hard

Ingredients

• 500g sorghum grains
• 300g millet grains
• 10 L water
• Wild airborne yeast (uncovered ferment) or 5g brewer's yeast

Method

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Soak grains 24 h; drain and germinate 48 h until sprouted.

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1
Soak grains 24 h; drain and germinate 48 h until sprouted.
2
Sun-dry, mill coarsely and boil with water 1 h.
3
Cool to blood-warm; pitch yeast or leave open in a clay pot.
4
Ferment 2-3 days until sour and fizzy.
5
Strain through muslin; serve fresh in calabashes.