Flag tour

The local brew, which is known through much if not all of West Africa, is Flag, there are a handfull of Solibra/Flag/Castel breweries and bottling plants, and now I’ve toured one of them. Granted the actual tour was not only in French, but technical beer brewing French, needless to say I learned more about how Charlie Brown feels about his teacher than about the beer brewing and bottling process, but I do love to see the industrial lines. It’s fascinating to see the steps that are involved that I’d never thought of. With the assistance of some of my more knowledgeable companions I learned about how lacking delicacy and consistency the recipe is for this dollar drink. The only stat that I can remember is really not the stat, but that they bottle more beer than soda and more soda than water, startling I know… sorry, no memory of quantities in la Francais. Granted one of the best parts of the tour was the end where we all got to taste whatever we wanted - even got to take home our beer mugs! (Free stuff in Cote d’Ivoire! Wonders never cease!)