I should be pretty easy to find, can't see there being more than one or two people on there with the name Alan Holowaychuk!
Sadly I only had t'ej once while I was there, from a little stall/shop (all the shops are stalls pretty much) in the city of Gonder/Gondar. It was interesting, but I couldn't really finish drinking it. I think it might have been "old" or possibly oxidized as it seemed almost bone dry, which to my understanding is not the norm, the stuff is usually drank young before it's done fermenting. Or maybe I just don't like gesho... other than being so dry it did seem to style, very "thick" a dark yellow/orange colour, opaque, lots of floating debris. I might go buy some gesho of my own and try making more of the stuff.
On a cool side-note, while my friend Jen (I've gotten tired of calling her my ex, too many negative connotations with that term...) was in Ghana, she got her hands on 2 water bottles full of local honey for me (weight unknown at this time, I'm hoping at least 3 lbs) and had it taken back to Canada by a classmate, I should have it soon.
It sounds really awesome, harvested from wild bees by hand by a lady from the area she was studying/researching in, totally raw, squeezed out of the comb by hand apparently. I'm stoked to turn it into an extra special mead! Jen also has a pretty decent idea what many of the flowers involved may have been, so I'll post whatever we find out when I do the brewlog.
