South of the Equator 2012: Burgmann Brewery

Sorocaba has its own brewery.We took the Emerson guys there for a big feed involving ribs, fritos (like chips) with cheese and garlic, and fried mandioca (best guess is a root veg like turnip....), and of course, a bit of tasting of the local liquids. The 'bar' is actually the warehouse floor of the brewery with the big stainless tanks all around you; talk about straight out of the pumps.Appart from lager, Burgmann do a tasty red ale, a really good 7%, and a Black Beer, very sweet - a bit like Mackeson's. We had a good time - these guys, although young, are a good bunch of people and easy to get on with. We had a bit of trouble getting our heads around portion sizes again and the Brazilian way of sharing meals, but when the supply of ribs ran out we simply order another round...and beer as well.

Sorocaba

The climate………

It is a little known fact that Sorocaba is 653m above sea level.....this is enough to make the atmospheric pressure (and hence oxygen content) only 93% of normal. We had thought that poor sleep and pathetic endurance walking to and from the hotel up the hills was due to post-Christmas weight gain, together with the temperatures being in the high 80’s during the day and the mid 70’s at night. We were wrong. Its not all ‘brain frying’ sunshine though, some days it rains and we have thunder and lightning although the temperature doesn’t drop much. The rain comes down in gallons and gallons and roads are instantly flooded but almost as quickly as it comes down the great cavonus storm drains along the roads swallow it up. These are the sort of drains you see in scary movies were there is something living down there just waiting to grab your ankles as you walk past.

South of the Equator 2012

Burgmann Brewery

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