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Friday, 20 June 2014

Chocolate coffee beer! Woo!

Zanzibar is known for men sitting around drinking tiny cups of local coffee on street corners. Dig a little deeper and you'll hear people from Unguja drink coffee, people from Pemba drink tea.

Turns out both are redundant.

Meet Malti. Non-alcoholic "malt drink" soda. The brown one is coffee flavoured. Or more specifically, mocha.

Like any Aussie, I have a cultural attachment to the smell of beer. But I just can't get past the alcohol flavour. Give me Maison over Moët any day, and I'll have a vodka and pineapple juice without the vodka please! 

Here we have basically chocolate flavoured fake beer. With a hint of coffee. I think at least part of the fake is because alcohol is haram, verboten, against the rules in Islam. And the guy who owns the big non-coke soda (/dairy/ferry/flour/football/juice) company was originally Zanzibari, apparently, and this archipelago, like my other favourite archipelago, is 90% Muslim.

Chocolate coffee beer has cousins:
Malti pineapple: probably too much pineapple fanta, not beery enough..

Malti Apple: for those "real men" - more beery than Malti GingerLime and Malti Coffee combined!

So we have options. But give me chocolate coffee beer any day.

Ah... Life is good!!

Peace out <3