• Banana beer is an alcoholic beverage made from fermentation of mashed bananas.
• There are two types of banana that are used for banana beer: the harsh tasting igikashi and the milder tasting igisahira.
• Banana beer is made from bananas, mixed with a cereal flour (often sorghum flour) and fermented to an orange, alcoholic beverage.
• It is sweet and slightly hazy with a shelf life of several days under correct storage conditions.
• Banana beer is a weak alcoholic beverage that is popular throughout Africa.
• Only ripe bananas (Musa species) should be used to make the beer as these have a high sugar content, which is necessary for the 
  fermentation.
• Banana beer is made from raw material that does not undergo any heating or cooking at any stage of the process.
• In Central and East Africa, the juice from the ripe fruit of varieties known as “beer bananas” may be drunk fresh or fermented
  to make a beer with a low alcohol content and short shelf-life.
• The beer is important nutritionally and is rich in vitamin B due to the yeast content.
• In Uganda and Sudan, banana beer is distilled to produce banana alcohol, or “waragi”.
• Gikongoro is the major market for the beer bananas and beer produced in neighboring Cyangugu.
• Beer bananas are the most common cultivars in three growing areas: Kivu Lake, Cyangugu and, Kigali Rural.
• Bananas know as maantoke are eaten raw and cooked in porridge and fermented into banana beer in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and 
  other places in sub-Sahara Africa.
• In Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi people eat around 550 pounds of bananas a year. They drink banana juice and beer made from 
  bananas.
• In Kenya, banana beer is known as urwaga, in Uganda as lubisi, in Rwanda and Burundi as urwagwa.
• In some parts of the region such as Rwanda and Burundi, however beer banana production is a dominant commercial activity and in these countries beer banana constitutes 64% of annual beer production.

• Bananas (Windward)
• Why beer bananas? The case for Rwanda
• About Banana beer information

Making Process

• How to Make Banana Beer
• Banana Beer Processing
• Making Banana Beer
• Banana Beer production

Studies

• The effect of enzymatic processing of banana juice and wine
• People and Bananas on Steep Slopes Agricultural Intensification and Food Secunty under Demographic Pressure and Environmental Degradation in Rwanda
• Feasibility study on technologies for improving banana for resistance against bacterial wilt in sub Saharan Africa
• A Study on the analysis of musa processing business and their support environment in Tanzania

Patent

• Process For Producing Beer-Taste Beverages Having A Satisfactory Brewing Aroma
• Duck decoy anchor
• Bacterial Growth enhancer

Company Profiles & Consultancy

• Company from France
• Company from USA
• Consultancy from New Delhi
• Consultancy from USA

Raw Material Suppliers

• Ripe Bananas Suppliers
• Exporters of  Ripe Banana
• Cereal flour Selling Leads
• Suppliers and Manufacturers of sorghum flour

Suppliers

• Banana Beer Suppliers
• Suppliers and Manufacturers of Banana Beer

• Uses of Musa
• The biology of bananas and plantains
• The many uses of Musa

    Recipe

• WaterAid helps Lake Victoria banana beer taste, and sell, better
• Banana Beer
• Banana Beer Bread
• Banana Beer
• Banana Beer (Aka Jungle Juice)

    Market

• A Threat to banana production in east and central Africa
• Banana production systems
  in eastern and southern Africa
• Transaction Costs and Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Banana Markets in the Great Lakes Region
• Banana (Musa spp.) Processing Businesses: Support Environment and
  Role in Poverty Reduction in Rural Tanzania
• Banana production, processing and marketing in Rwanda
• Marketing survey of the Banana sub-sector
• Domestic Banana-Beer Production in Mpigi District, Uganda
• Banana Value Chains in Central Africa: Constraints and Opportunities

     Report

• Banana Marketing in Rwanda, Burundi and South Kivu
  CIALCA Project Survey Report
• Banana Beer in Burundi
• The case for growing beer bananas
• Evaluating the Marketing Opportunities for Banana & its Products in the Principle Banana Growing Countries of ASARECA
• Bananas and Food Security
• Agricultural Innovation and Technology in Africa - Rwanda experience Coffee, banana and dairy commodity chains
• Brewing a Wheat Beer with Intensive Banana Aroma
• Land Degradation and
  Opportunities for Sustainable
  Management of Kagera River
  Basin-Tanzania