What is the famous traditional alcohol and non-alcohol drink of Philippines?

Question

i need the name, history and the making process or other useful information if possible.
please help! because i have to write the report about that.

Answer 1

traditional alcoholic drinks= Basi,tuba,rice wine,strawberry wine,
non-alcoholic=kape barako,coconut juice

Answer 2

Hi, I'm from the Philippines!!

There are a lot of famous traditional alcoholic beverages of varying preparations in our culture, though I'd rarely see people making them in the city, heheh, probably in the province.

One is lambanog (coconut wine), and tuba - palm wine (not the instrument.. pronounce it as 2-bha) and if I remember right, their done through fermentation, like other alcoholic beverages.. These are not the only two for there are so many different ethnic cultures scattered in the country. As for today, I'd vote for commercial Emperador and San MIguel beer hahah..

As for non-alcoholic, I don't recall any specific beverages from my history classes, but it's probably fruit juices.
Sorry but most discussions about beverages in the Filipino traditional culture revolved around alcohol..

Hope it helps even a tiny bit.

*Try searching Wikipedia.com for lambanog and tuba/palm wine!!

Answer 3

Alcoholic

* Brandy. Fundador is the local favorite.
* Brandy-Iced Tea Powder - is a popular cocktail and a part of several cocktails of liqueurs and juice powders.
* Brandy-Grape Juice Powder
* Cervesa - is a translation for beer.
* Gin - both local varieties like Ginebra San Miguel and Gin Bulag, and the "London Dry" local and imported types like Gilbey's, are consumed.
* Gin-Bulag - literally translates to "gin-blind." It is said that consuming copious amounts will make one blind.
* Gin-Pineapple Juice Powder
* Gin-Pomelo Juice Powder - contains a certain type of citrus popular to its pink color.
* Lambanog - is a type of hard liquor made from distilled coconut extract.
* Tuba (or toddy) - is a type of hard liquor made from fresh drippings extracted from a cut young stem of palm. The cutting of the palm stem is done by a mananguete — a person whose profession involves climbing palm trees and extracting the "tuba" to supply to customers later in the day — and is usually done early in the morning. The morning accumulated palm juice or drippings from a cut stem is then harvested by noon then brought to buyers then prepared for consumption. Sometimes this is being done twice a day so that there are two harvests of tuba in a day — first at noon-time and later in the late-afternoon. Normally, tuba has to be consumed right after the mananguete brings it over or it becomes too sour to be consumed as a drink so that any remaining unconsumed tuba in the day is being stored in jars for several days to become vinegar.

Shakes

* Fresh Mango Shake - consists of ripe mangoes blended with milk, ice, and sugar.
* Fruit Shakes - are similar to milkshakes but only contain fruit or flavoring (like chocolate malt drink powder or chocolate cookies or unusual flavors like durian), milk (except in some fruits), crushed ice, water and sugar.
* Green Mango Shake - consists of green mangoes blended with syrup.
* Kamias Shake - consists of kamias, a tropical sour fruit, that is blended with sugar, white syrup, and crushed ice.
* Palamig or Samalamig - pearl shakes or cold powder respectively - are flavored shakes with large tapioca pearls (sago) and syrup that come in a wide assortment of flavors including mango, ube, halo-halo, corn, pandan, buko, etc.

Chilled Drinks

* Gulaman at Sago - is a flavored iced-drink with agar gelatin and sago balls/pearls. Banana extract is added to the accompanying syrup.
* Fresh Buko Juice - is a fresh drink from a young green (not mature) coconut where the coconut is penetrated to allow straw into the membrane allowing a person to drink its juice. On option, the coconut can be opened afterwards to scrape and eat its flesh.
* Kalamansi Juice - consists of Philippine limes, particularly the kalamansi itself, that are squeezed and sweetened with honey, syrup or sugar.
* Other Tropical Fruit Drinks - includes dalandan (green mandarin), suha (pomelo), piña (pineapple), banana, and guyabano (soursop).

Teas

* Pandan Iced Tea - is tea made with pandan leaves and lemon grass.
* Salabat - sometimes called ginger tea, is a hot drink brewed from ginger root.

Coffees

* Kape Barako - is a premium brewed coffee from the cool mountains of Batangas.