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Balché
Balché is a traditional fermented beverage associated with the Maya of Mexico and Central America. Historical descriptions generally describe it as a drink made by fermenting honey or honeyed water with the bark of the balché tree, commonly identified as Lonchocarpus longistylus. The beverage had ceremonial and cultural uses, and its preparation belongs to Maya traditions rather than to a single s...
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Basi
Basi is a traditional Ilocano alcoholic drink made from fermented sugarcane juice. It is associated especially with the Ilocos region of northern Luzon, where local production uses plant ingredients and a fermentation starter or agent known as gamu; some accounts identify samac as an ingredient. Basi is also connected with the 1807 Basi Revolt, an uprising linked to Spanish restrictions on its pro...
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