• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I’m skeptical that most of SE Asia drinks “spirits”. How are they defining spirits, wine, and beer? I would have thought of spirits as being things that were distilled after fermentation, and I don’t think that most of common alcoholic beverages in SE Asia are distilled.

    • Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Whiskey is an incredibly popular drink in India. It’s often mixed down into something lower ABV (mostly water) and it ends up closer to a typical wine’s ABV as the consumed product, but it still spirits that arr being bought/sold.

      There are several whiskey distillers in my part of California and 3 of them were started by Indian men that like to talk shop.