DEI In Action: An International Collaboration Brew For Umuganura

By Louis Livingston-Garcia Nestled in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, Rwanda is famous for its many hills, highly-lauded coffee beans, and mesmerizing mountain gorillas. And in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, craft beer is pouring through draft lines at Kweza Brewery at a pace that might soon make it another point of pride.  Licensed in…

Jessi Flynn: Elevating The Sorghum Industry of Rwanda

In 2022, the Craft Maltsters Guild gave three scholarship recipients the opportunity to attend the Craft Malt Conference and join the Guild as members for the year. These scholarships were enacted by the Guild’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force.  Among the recipients was Rwanda’s first brewery that uses locally sourced, African ingredients, sorghum malt…