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Hopose

Home-brewed beer of maize meal, bread yeast and sugar, drunk young

Lesotho Wine & spirit Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Brewed in Lesotho yards alongside traditional joala, and sold from houses that fly a flag to show beer is ready.

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What is Hopose?

Hopose is a wine & spirit from Lesotho: home-brewed beer of maize meal, bread yeast and sugar, drunk young. Brewed in Lesotho yards alongside traditional joala, and sold from houses that fly a flag to show beer is ready.

Made with

maizesugarwheat

Cooked

brewed

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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