Beer strainer

This type of beer strainer is used by southern African peoples to remove the sprouted millet from the beer when it is poured from the large ceramic pot used as a vat. It fits into the neck of the vessel and the beer flows through the weave, leaving the dregs behind. The strainer can then be wrung out to extract the remaining beer.

Beer strainer composed of woven grass-like plant fiber tube, gathered at one end and bound with twisted plant fiber cord.

Volkmar Wentzel, Washington, D.C., -- to 1980

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