Sayari solar microbrewery
Solar-powered microbrewery makes
the perfect Serengeti sundowner
A solar-powered microbrewery that produces four unique beers as well as clean drinking water for guests and surrounding communities is the latest innovative eco-initiative at the award-winning Sayari Camp in the northern Serengeti.
I
t has to be the world’s ultimate
possible in one of the national park’s
sundowner experience. Watching
most remote and unspoilt locations.
the sinking sun burnish the
Currently four unique beers are
golden plains of the Serengeti while
being produced on site for the
sipping on an ice cool beer fresh
exclusive enjoyment of guests at
from a microbrewery just footsteps
the camp’s 15 luxury suites. Quality,
away that is powered by those same
clean water is integral to the brewing
solar rays.
process so the microbrewery has the
The bush microbrewery is the first
added advantage of being able to
Cheers Enjoying a solarpowered beer on safari at Sayari
Mara marvel The camp is perfectly placed for the Great Migration
– enough to cater for everyone at the camp as well as supplying the nearby park ranger station and surrounding communities. It’s a vital service in as remote a region as the Serengeti, where water quality is poor.
of its kind in the world and the latest
purify water and carbonate it for soft
Gerard Beaton, operations director
eco-friendly feature to be introduced
drinks using renewable energy. This
at Asilia, the eco-tourist company
at the award-winning Sayari Camp,
removes the need for bottles and
that owns Sayari among a portfolio of
which has since it arrived in the
cans in camp, reducing waste along
exclusive carbon-neutral camps across
Lamai Wedge region of the northern
with its transport carbon footprint.
East Africa, says the microbrewery’s
Serengeti in 2008 sought to have
The microbrewery can produce one
purification process results in “pristine”
as light as ecological footprint as
million litres of drinking water a year
water, with all contaminants removed. www.precisionairtz.com
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