Show I KAFFIR BEER HAS HMM HEALTHY RICK KICK KICKI U. U S. S Hasn't Monopoly on Moonshine of Genuine i Variety Varie y By Edward M. M Thierry rry I Reported for This Newspaper With I Ithe the the Smithsonian African Ex Expedition edition J JOHANNESBURG 0 H ANN E 8 U R G Transvaal March 1 12 Moonshine Moonshine isn't an American Ameri Amer- Amer 1 C can ln monopoly South Africa has a big Illicit liquor traffic Its It's chiefly among the n na na natives tives who are are barred except in Cape Lape- Province from buying drinks Xa Kaffir ir beer Is their favorite moonshine moonshine moon shine Johannesburg suburban police I rec recently raided a n gold sold mine compound compound compound com com- pound where 1200 s naU live J nl n 2 confiscated gallons cf ct Kaffir Veer beer I anti and several casks of ot th the lat Kit at attar tar fen rn more deadly than the th former forne The bulk of the liquor was found In n paraffin cans tinier teh tell hunks hunu while the floors were ware littered with I I lugs jugs containing tin th Wh When rf the te liquor had all be bees i 1 toured poured down I dain the empty cams made a i JIlIn U I fourteen feet teet high Kaffir beer heer has I 1 p culiar s Kick heck lit lii I It calculated to mal malt maU maUa a a. white man turn handsprings Brewing of ot o fIt it I j existed throughout Africa centuries I before white men colonized th-e th the con con- e eIt It isn't exactly beer nor Its It's rather like the beer mash maso ferment fer fermented fer fer- fermented ment d by the of the Appalachian mountains before distillation distillation distil distil- lation lallon into whisky Heres Here's the way day it is made according according accord- accord ing In to Dudley KIdd prominent authority authority au- au on S South uth African natives natives- Women place some Kaffir corn in water till It sprouts Then the their dry rand and grind it up mixing it in huge r calab calabashes with water valet In some soma dIs- dIs tr eta natives add dd ferments extracted from roots of ot certain plants to help the brewing Tue Tue r result sult of ot the operation is Is athin a athin athin thin dirty n watery gruel Natives can absorb the most prodigious pro pro- quantities of ot this stuff stutt But after drinking for a da day and a halt half without any needless Intervals they are apt to become quarrelsome They sometimes drink till tm they can hold ho no more and then lie He out in the sun to get rid of the liquor by I per when they set to work once more This process may be kept up tip for days day together Kaffir beer usually Is in a less fermented fermented fer ter- condition than the themore more deadly dead dead- ly The latter has treacle and hops or yeast in In it to make mako it ferment more rapidly I Cases of ot crime mostly theft and knife assaults have hive been Increasing I among natives The liquor traffic Is blamed but ut in m spite of ot the strictest I police supervision great quantities of moonshine material are regularly smuggled Into mine compounds I th theatre atre tomorrow morning at 1015 under I league league the au auspices Pl Music of will the be Home furnished is and by School the th I IE E East t Junior High school I |