Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Making Omalodu (traditional beer)

And now for the making of Omalodu...the Owambo traditional beer!
My family gave me my own bucket of sorghum to make this beer. Below, in the slide show, I explain all of the steps. Once the sorghum is beaten off the stalks (like the mahangu in the previous post), it takes about 3 or 4 days to make. Because there is no sugar or anything else added, it's not alcoholic...though it seems it fermented a tiny bit....

And below this picture slide show, are 2 videos!

Enjoy!!

Here is a slide show of the steps in making the Owambo traditional beer, Omalodu:



Here is a short video of a few of the steps to turn the sorghum grain into a fine flour. It's called "pounding". The kids from the village would laugh at this white girl trying to do this! It's pretty difficult, but I told my niece, Tuuli, that I want to help pound mahangu or sorghum anytime they are doing it as well...because this American needs much more practice!




And a video of Meme trying my omalodu for the first time:



1 comment:

  1. Iyaloo! Ou shi shi paife okuninga omaludo!
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