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Tonto

Cloudy banana beer fermented in a wooden trough with sorghum flour

Uganda Wine & spirit Vegetarian

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History

Bananas ripen in a pit, are trodden in a hollowed trough and fermented with roasted sorghum; the Baganda call the trough method mwenge bigere, foot beer.

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What is Tonto?

Tonto is a wine & spirit from Uganda: cloudy banana beer fermented in a wooden trough with sorghum flour. Bananas ripen in a pit, are trodden in a hollowed trough and fermented with roasted sorghum; the Baganda call the trough method mwenge bigere, foot beer.

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