THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH
The brewer brews it to his own knowledge been transferred from his father, brother or any other relatives that is largely involved in the distillation of the locally distilled alcohol known  as " akpetetsi"

I have the doubt everytime i was told the *sodabi*, another name for akpetetsi, has come out from palm wine.
How possible can something like that comes from palm wine has been the one out of many rhetoric questions that comes into my mind anytime i have heard of Akpetetsi.

Today, my doubt is cleared when i visted Blewusi, the master brewer of *Lebene* *Brewery*, a local brewery company in Mafi-Agoe, in Central Tongu District, Volta Region of Ghana.
A friend of mind told me they distilling some akpetetsi around and want us to go and have a look at it. I quickly agreed to this because i think it is an opportunity for to have a fair idea about how the whole thing is done and it might also give me a platform to learn.

Early enough we set of to the place where brewing is taking place. You will be shocked when you are exposed to the art of modern technology that is been applied in the factory.
" We do not spent much in making this factory because we move from place to place base on the availability of raw materials. You can see it yourself, how much will this rubber cost, how much will be involved in buying this tanks and tubes? We spent less but make alot of cash out of this", the master brewer said.
Waooo! I exclaimed. So how did you learn this? "The learning is simple. It is not like going secondary school or university to learn books, it is very practical and taking of instructions serious and very soon you will become your own master. I was eighteen years when i help my father to taped palm wine and brew akpetetsi out of it for only once, and that is where i started doing my own". He said.

I then throw my mind back to those days at school when were learning separation of mixtures and one of the topics that we treated was *distillation*, and i have realized that the process involved in making akpetetsi and that of distillation in our science subject is the same.
The question that comes to my mind is, if this is how the whole thing is done why can't our teachers organize some sight visit so that we can all understand this concept once and for all? I rhetorically asked myself.

I further ask the master brewer that i could see a fire under a tank, a tube connecting the tank, passing through water and finding it ways in a gallon, what is the importance of all this to your work?.

"The tank contains the fermented palm wine that we kept for about three weeks and the fire we set under it will let it becomes very hot and will start evaporating. The tube connected to tank will then collect the vapour that comes from the heat or the evaporated palm wine, then then the water will cool the vapour in the tube and it becomes the *Zorkele* that we working on.
In an amazement, i put my hands together and said that is brilliant and magical.
So if that is that case how will you know the amout of heat you applied is okay? "That is where you to be careful and observant and takes instructions. Because i know people say there something that you can use to measure the heat but we don't have it here so what we do is to look at the flow of the liquid substance and adjust the fire to it pepepe like that.

I have seen it myself. I have my doubt cleared and it is nice to see something good myself.
So what do you will improve your work and make you a big man? "We will become  great people if government or any individual can give us a helping hand by modifying our work with equipments this can also be one of the factories promised by President Nana Addo and we can all also give direct employment to 1000 of Ghanaians". He said
So education started ways back and it is only been transferred from one individual to another with just spoken words and it is still working.

What is your judgement? Did ever have chance to listen to this unspoken truth? It is fact that someone has inverted this and was here before the arrival of Europeans and for that matter education and it will last for ever and ever.
The brewer brews it to his own knowledge been transferred from his father, brother or any other relatives that is largely involved in the distillation of the locally distilled alcohol known  as " *akpetetsi*"

I have the doubt everytime i was told the *sodabi*, another name for akpetetsi, has come out from palm wine.

How possible can something like that comes from palm wine has been the one out of many rhetoric questions that comes into my mind anytime i have heard of Akpetetsi.

Today, my doubt is cleared when i visted Blewusi, the master brewer of *Lebene* *Brewery*, a local brewery company in Mafi-Agoe, in Central Tongu District, Volta Region of Ghana.

A friend of mind told me they distilling some akpetetsi around and want us to go and have a look at it. I quickly agreed to this because i think it is an opportunity for to have a fair idea about how the whole thing is done and it might also give me a platform to learn.

Early enough we set of to the place where brewing is taking place. You will be shocked when you are exposed to the art of modern technology that is been applied in the factory.

" We do not spent much in making this factory because we move from place to place base on the availability of raw materials. You can see it yourself, how much will this rubber cost, how much will be involved in buying this tanks and tubes? We spent less but make alot of cash out of this", the master brewer said.

Waooo! I exclaimed. So how did you learn this? "The learning is simple. It is not like going secondary school or university to learn books, it is very practical and taking of instructions serious and very soon you will become your own master. I was eighteen years when i help my father to taped palm wine and brew akpetetsi out of it for only once, and that is where i started doing my own". He said.


I then throw my mind back to those days at school when were learning separation of mixtures and one of the topics that we treated was *distillation*, and i have realized that the process involved in making akpetetsi and that of distillation in our science subject is the same.

The question that comes to my mind is, if this is how the whole thing is done why can't our teachers organize some sight visit so that we can all understand this concept once and for all? I rhetorically asked myself.

I further ask the master brewer that i could see a fire under a tank, a tube connecting the tank, passing through water and finding it ways in a gallon, what is the importance of all this to your work?.

"The tank contains the fermented palm wine that we kept for about three weeks and the fire we set under it will let it becomes very hot and will start evaporating. The tube connected to tank will then collect the vapour that comes from the heat or the evaporated palm wine, then then the water will cool the vapour in the tube and it becomes the *Zorkele* that we working on.

In an amazement, i put my hands together and said that is brilliant and magical.

So if that is that case how will you know the amout of heat you applied is okay? "That is where you to be careful and observant and takes instructions. Because i know people say there something that you can use to measure the heat but we don't have it here so what we do is to look at the flow of the liquid substance and adjust the fire to it pepepe like that.

I have seen it myself. I have my doubt cleared and it is nice to see something good myself.
So what do you will improve your work and make you a big man? "We will become  great people if government or any individual can give us a helping hand by modifying our work with equipments this can also be one of the factories promised by President Nana Addo and we can all also give direct employment to 1000 of Ghanaians". He said
So education started ways back and it is only been transferred from one individual to another with just spoken words and it is still working.

What is your judgement? Did ever have chance to listen to this unspoken truth? It is fact that someone has inverted this and was here before the arrival of Europeans and for that matter education and it will last for ever and ever.