Arrack
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Arrack is a distilled alcoholic drink typically produced in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia, made from the fermented sap of coconut flowers or sugarcane, and also with grain or fruit depending up
Two kinds of arrack from Sri Lanka
Batavian arrack factory "Aparak" in 1948
Lambanog, a palm liquor
"Ceylon Arrack"
Palm wine
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Palm wine, known by several local names, is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees such as the palmyra, date palms, and coconut palms. It is known by various names
Arrack
…back thousands of years to China and even predates the birth of distillation). It is also claimed to have been distilled in India in 800 BCE, but while palm wine and fermented sugarcane drinks were being made around this time, not all believe that formal distillation was taking place. Outside Asia, the spirit…
Bottles and a glass of palm wine
Toddy collectors at work on Cocos nucifera palms
Tapping palm sap in East Timor
Palm wine is collected, fermented, and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (c. 1990).