Sorghum, also called gros mil in french, seems to be the best cereal for shakparo brewing. It is very thirst-quenching, and it is cloudy and yeasty, with a brownish pink color. The enjoyer burp and the typical aroma come back. Long before the rise of western feminism, women of the generally matrilinear beer drinkers's tribes used beer to ensure their power in the society. An Idasha myth reports that a gratful heroic ancestor build the first market for his mother to sell the fruit of her work, most notably her beer.
Mothers teach brewing art and science to their girls before mariage.
An Ifa verse which sets the temperance rule report that Beer and his brothers Palm Wine and Raphia Wine consulted the oracle. Tourists and culturally alienated Africans often look upon those products as primitive dirty and harmful stuffs and prefer to drink Becks, Heineken and Kronenbourg.