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African honey drinks (bessoudioury, iQhilika and others)bessoudioury
Across Africa, honey is diluted with water and fermented into drinks of differing strength, often with a plant, root or palm wine supplying the yeast. This entry gathers those without their own page. The best-documented one, bessoudioury from south-eastern Senegal, is shown step by step; Ethiopian tej and Kenyan muratina have their own entries.
Amounts from a sourceBessoudioury as observed at three production sites in the Kédougou region of Senegal in December 2017. The paper gives the honey-to-water ratio but no amount of palm wine.
Added after cooking as the source of yeast; which one depends on what is available[cisse2018]
Starter
palm wine (bessoudioury); a prepared root that carries yeast (iQhilika)
Total time across the recorded steps: 2.1 days
Start
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What changes:Honey is stirred into an equal volume of water
Step 1 of 4
Dilute the honey with water
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Yeasts
Moulds
Diluting lowers the sugar pressure that would otherwise stop yeasts from working. Output: diluted honey.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Across Africa, honey is diluted with water and fermented into drinks of differing strength, often with a plant, root or palm wine supplying the yeast. This entry gathers those without their own page. The best-documented one, bessoudioury from south-eastern Senegal, is shown step by step; Ethiopian tej and Kenyan muratina have their own entries. Made in 4 steps over 2.1 days. The longest step, ferment and mature, takes 2 days (Cissé O.I.K 2018) and runs at 30 °C (Cissé O.I.K 2018). Yeasts brought in with the palm wine, 2.4 × 10^5 to 5.8 × 10^6 CFU/mL in finished bessoudioury and Lactic acid bacteria, 3.2 × 10^4 to 44 × 10^5 CFU/mL in finished bessoudioury do most of the fermenting.
The base mead is honey, water and yeast fermented for weeks or months. These drinks take their yeast from what is at hand, palm wine or a prepared root, and some, like bessoudioury, are drunk after two days.
Bessoudioury
Honey diluted 1/1 with water, cooked, then fermented 2 days with palm wine; about 8 % alcohol
iQhilika
Two commercial Eastern Cape meads held 11.92–12.03 % ethanol and about 70 g/L residual sugar
Bessoudioury (Senegal)Mead of the Bassari and Bedick peoples of Kédougou; honey cooked 1 h 30 min, then fermented 2 days with Borassus or oil-palm wine. Once the main drink at religious ceremonies and rites of passage.
iQhilika (Eastern Cape, South Africa)Xhosa and Khoi-San descendants ferment honey, sometimes with fruit, using specially prepared roots of Trichodiadema succulents; pollen or a bee-larva extract is sometimes added.
Muratina (Kenya)Honey or sugarcane juice fermented with sausage-tree fruit; see its own entry.
Khadi (Botswana)Made from sun-dried Grewia flava berries and brown table sugar, with fruit from the previous brew as starter; Gantsi samples averaged 4.68 % alcohol. Listed here for its region; it is not made with honey.
In the studied bessoudioury samples (pH 3.56–3.79, about 8 % alcohol), no moulds and no Streptococcus were found. The study looked only for total flora, yeasts, moulds and Streptococcus, so it does not clear other pathogens. The authors say the acid pH is incompatible with the growth of most microorganisms and that ethanol adds a bactericidal and antifungal effect; that is their reasoning, not a test they ran.
Cissé and colleagues (2018) describe bessoudioury as made by the Bassari and Bedick peoples of Kédougou, once the main drink at religious ceremonies and rites of passage. They say that today its production is an income-generating activity for many local households. Its name means drink (bessou) of honey (dioury).