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Type | Beer |
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Flavour | maize (corn), maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast |
Umqombothi (Xhosa pronunciation: [um̩k͡ǃomboːtʰi]), is a South African traditional beer made from maize (corn), maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast, and water. The beer has a rather low content of alcohol (usually less than 3%) but a high content of B vitamins. It has a thick, creamy, and gritty consistency (from the maize), a heavy and distinctly sour aroma, and an opaque, buff-colored appearance.
Umqombothi is cheaper than commercial lager beers brewed from barley and flavoured with hop flowers.