People in a Tej bar in Ethiopia
Tej is a mead or honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia. It is flavored with the powdered leaves and twigs of gesho , a hops-like bittering agent which is a species of buckthorn. It is a sweet alcohol, and everybody, men and women, drinks it in bars.
The bottle (berele) in which you drink it as a special shape, and one drink costs only 1 birr, few cents.
© Eric Lafforgue
People in a Tej bar in Ethiopia
Tej is a mead or honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia. It is flavored with the powdered leaves and twigs of gesho , a hops-like bittering agent which is a species of buckthorn. It is a sweet alcohol, and everybody, men and women, drinks it in bars.
The bottle (berele) in which you drink it as a special shape, and one drink costs only 1 birr, few cents.
© Eric Lafforgue