Quiz: Don’t be bam-booze-led by this alcohol quiz

A common Himalayan beverage, ________ is made of finger millets that are boiled, dried and left to ferment for a couple of months. Also known as the beer of the Himalayas, this is known to be used by the Lepcha community in Sikkim as an offering to their gods and goddesses. Fill up the blank.

Palm wine or Palm ________ is a South Indian speciality, and the most potent of them have a sour taste. Made with fermented coconut sap, these drinks are usually sold in small shanties. The way the sap is extracted is considered almost an art-form. Fill up the blank.

Made from fermented rice or barley, this local alcoholic beverage made a special appearance in the movie ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’. Found exclusively in the snow clad mountains of the Himalayas, _______ is perhaps one of the best ways to drink the cold away. Fill up the blank.

Urak and Feni are the first and second distillation drinks from fermented ______ juice. Weirdly, Urak tastes especially delicious with Limca and a couple of green chilies and Feni is a popular drink that you keep hearing about on the streets of Goa. Fill up.

Found aplenty in Odisha, Bengal, and Jharkhand, these flowers have a variety of uses. The wine made from these ________ flowers packs quite a flowery surprise: it is equal parts sweet and pungent. It is packaged in coloured glass bottles for longevity. Fill up the blank with the name of the flower.

Quiz: Don’t be bam-booze-led by this alcohol quiz

A common Himalayan beverage, ________ is made of finger millets that are boiled, dried and left to ferment for a couple of months. Also known as the beer of the Himalayas, this is known to be used by the Lepcha community in Sikkim as an offering to their gods and goddesses. Fill up the blank.

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