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Little Known Facts About Waragi Ugandan Homemade Gin

Uganda is the second-most drunkest country in Africa, learn about the craft alcoholic beverage drinking in Uganda.


Waragi, also known as Kasese or Lira Lira is a popular craft alcoholic beverage distilled in Uganda
Waragi for sale

Waragi, also known as Kasese or Lira Lira is a popular craft alcoholic beverage distilled in Uganda.

Little Known Facts About Waragi Uganda Homemade Gin

Ugandans value authenticity and alcoholic cocktail making experience handed down through the generations leading them to create traditional African Waragi Ugandan Homemade Gin. This why Uganda is known as the drunkest country in Africa.
Waragi is a Ugandan homemade distilled alcoholic beverage made from the juice of mashed bananas, grain, cassava or sugarcane fermented 2 days
Serving Waragi 

Distilled liquor goes by many names, Waragi is a Ugandan homemade distilled alcoholic beverage made from the juice of mashed bananas, grain, cassava or sugarcane fermented 2 days, the brew from start to finish takes around 3 weeks to complete.

Income from making Waragi is a way to make a way out of no way for female entrepreneurs, it is how many survive to support their families.

Many Ugandan families are historically independent-minded making a living off Waragi because the homemade liquor is produced and sold quickly not requiring aging. Unaged Waragi has a harsh taste and rough character.

Enguli is the popular 1960’s home brew which inspired the Enguli act of 1966. The Enguli act regulates the manufacturing, licensing and sale of the popular homespun brews called enguli.

The act is meant to establish and implement a licensing system for making the local brews however; some local Ugandan brewers currently not follow the established system.

Heating Waragi also known as Kasese or Lira Lira homemade distilled gin.
Heating Waragi 

The Enguli Act also defines duties of license holders and requires a license to be obtained for the making of a kind of spirit called jaggery or sap from palm trees or juice from sugarcane used as a sugar base for distilled brews.

The Ugandan government in 1965 wrote the language for the Enguli act of 1966 stating you must have a license to make Waragi and pay taxes but this does not stop Waragi brewers from making the brew without a license.

This is probably due to Ugandans traditional cultural concept of community policing called Nyumba Kumi which works on the premise that each community must be able to be self-reliant. In 2009 commercially made plastic packets of waragi were named in the death of 20 people in Uganda, were found to contain more methanol than the suggested ratio.

Drinking alcohol is a part of Uganda's social culture just as any other country in the world, legal drinking is age 18 throughout the country. Average alcohol consumption is around 3 gallons per person per year; the US average is about 2.5 gallons per person per year.

Uganda is not the most drunkest country in Africa, that title belongs to Nigeria with 3.2 gallons of alcoholic beverages consumed per person per year.

The top ten drunkest countries in Africa according to a World Health Organization 2011 report are:

10. Tanzania

9. Botswana

8. Gabon

7. South Africa

6. Burundi

5. Namibia

4. Sierra Leone

3. Rwanda

2. Uganda

1. Nigeria

Did you know?

Nigeria with 3.2 gallons of alcoholic beverages consumed per person per year is the drinkingest country in Africa.

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