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Himalayan millet beer. Tongba is the version sipped through a bamboo straw from a wooden vessel filled with hot water.
Warm, through a bamboo straw (tongba).
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India's hot climate makes whisky mature much faster than in Scotland, so young Indian malts taste rich and rounded. Indian single malts now win international awards.
Most whisky sold in India is distilled from molasses and blended with a little malt whisky. In Europe it would legally be called a spirit drink rather than whisky.
Brandy is the best-selling spirit category in South India. Most is molasses-based with added grape spirit and flavouring.
India is one of the world's largest rum markets. Indian dark rums are sweet, vanilla-led and often aged several years; rum with hot water is a classic hill-station winter drink.
A fast-growing category, many made in Goa, using botanicals like Darjeeling tea, Goan cashew, tulsi, kokum and mango.
Goa's heritage spirit with a GI tag. Cashew feni is distilled from the fermented juice of the cashew apple and has a strong, fruity, funky aroma. Urrak is its lighter first distillate.
The world's most popular beer style: fermented cool and stored ('lagered') cold, giving a clean, crisp taste.
Golden, hoppy lager first brewed in Plzeň in 1842; ancestor of most of the world's lagers. Czechs drink the most beer per person on earth.
Munich's soft, bready pale lager.
Strong, malty lagers; doppelbock was brewed by monks as 'liquid bread' during Lent fasting.
Delicate, crisp ale protected to Cologne, served in small 200 ml glasses.
Cloudy, unfiltered wheat beer whose yeast gives banana and clove aromas.