Curiously, but even people learned to do drinks of juice of palm trees. However, mostly alcoholic: for example, the palm beer and vodka produced in the handicraft method.
Instruction
1. Tuak (it — todd, palm wine, palm beer) — the traditional alcoholic drink widespread on open spaces of Asia and Africa. There is a set of its versions. The classical option is preparing from juice of coconut, palmirovy, sugar, wine palms. For its preparation the palm tree inflorescences (usually "women's") cut off, or just make an incision bark and attach a vessel to a cut. Sweet juice of a palm tree initially, certainly, doesn't contain alcohol. And here when it is placed in capacity, juice begins to wander — or naturally (on a heat), or thanks to fungal additives. In 6-7 hours juice becomes wine — many prefer to drink its fresh that it didn't lose taste. The alcohol share in it is small — most often no more than 5% of alcohol (for what туак and I deserved the name of palm beer). Thanks to its low degree, palm alcohol was popular with women of some regions. Here and there, on the contrary, it is allowed only men.
2. However if there is desire to increase fortress, to juice 2-3 days allow to wander then palm "moonshine" with fruitiness is considered ready. In some regions туак — very important part of holidays and even religious ceremonies. Its production isn't forbidden, not kept a secret and even to some extent are proud of it as a local attraction. Tourists can try it in local taverns. In some regions туак it is considered marginal drink, its admissible fortress is strictly limited, and for identification of violators of sanitary and hygienic norms even police raids are arranged.
3. Sometimes and itself туак forms a basis of more hard alcoholic beverages — then it is subjected to distillation. In this case alcohol content in it increases to 20%, sometimes — to 35%. Act this way, for example, in Tunisia — here palm alcohol call a bukh. The begun to ferment fig is subjected to simple distillation and drunk cooled as aperitif. Sometimes the bukha is added to cocktails or even by fruit salads.
4. To Bali, in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India from the rewandering rye mash and juice of a sugar palm tree prepare arakas — here already 50-58% of alcohol. It is the real vodka.
5. It is curious that palm alcohol strongly intoxicates, but it isn't forbidden Muslims therefore arakas it is rather widespread in the east. In some regions instead of juice of a palm tree use rice and spices.