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Merissa

Cloudy sour sorghum beer brewed at home and drunk from shared jars

South Sudan Wine & spirit Vegetarian One for the adventurous

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

Brewed from fermented sorghum across the Nile valley; prohibited in Sudan under sharia law from 1983, it remained legal and everyday in the south.

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What is Merissa?

Merissa is a wine & spirit from South Sudan: cloudy sour sorghum beer brewed at home and drunk from shared jars. Brewed from fermented sorghum across the Nile valley; prohibited in Sudan under sharia law from 1983, it remained legal and everyday in the south.

Made with

sorghum

Cooked

brewedfermented

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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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