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Palm Wine is also known as Palm Toddy or simply Toddy is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees like Coconut-palm and Palmyra. This drink is common in various parts of Asia and Africa but named differently. The sap is extracted and collected by a tapper. Typically the sap is collected from the cut flower of the palm tree. A container is fastened to the flower stump to collect the sap. The white liquid that initially collects tends to be very sweet and non-alcoholic before it is fermented. An alternate method is the felling of the entire tree. Where it is practiced, a fire is sometimes lit at .......

"God's own country"-Kerala gives us another gift to relax and soothe our nerves. That is "Tender coconut wine" made out of "tender coconut water". The invention of tender coconut wine carries a very interesting, but real story behind it. Life is full of struggling events. But the winner is the one who finds his way of victory from the extreme situations as it is still believed that, "If there is a will, there is away." Conversion of crises into opportunity can be done only by some courageous people who are followed by a farmer in real, in Kerala. Sebastian P Augustine, a 66-year coconut farmer who is worried, when a disease in his coconut plantation occurred. Instead of crying for relief, he found .......

The hurricane is an extremely sweet alcoholic drink made from lime juice, passion fruit syrup and rum. Hurricane was invented during the World War II at Pat O'Brien's bar in New Orleans. In the 1940s, due to the difficulties in importing Scotch during World War II, liquor salesmen forced bar owners to buy up to 50cases of their much more abundant rum in order to secure a single case of good Whiskey or Scotch. The barmen at Pat O'Brien's soon came up with an alluring recipe to clear their excess surplus of rum. When they decided to serve it in a tall, jaunty glass shaped like a hurricane lamp, the cocktail came into existence with the name Hurricane. The drink is a mixture of sweet juices and rum.

Jack Rose is a name of a classic cocktail which is popular in 1920s and 1930s.Its name is derived from jack of the applejack and the light rose coloring from the grenadine. It is notably appeared in a scene in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 classic, The Sun Also Rises, in which Jake Barnes, the narrator, drinks a Jack Rose in a Paris hotel bar while awaiting the arrival of Lady Brett Ashley. Jack Rose is a very popular wine during the period World Wars I & II. It was strong enough for Real Man, yet is smooth enough for a lady.

It is a simple drink with just three ingredients: applejack, grenadine, lime juice or sour mix. Applejack cocktails were originally made from the uniquely North .......

Pink Lady is a gin-based classic cocktail with a long history. The mixture of egg white and cream creates floating foam at the top giving the drink a sweet texture. The egg-white also gives a great foamy top to the pink liquid, creating an intimate looking finished cocktail. The drink was traditionally made with Plymouth gin which a stronger flavor of herbs compared to the standard gin. As per the name and appearance Pink Lady is traditionally a very popular feminine drink choice. It is also considered as a "girly drink". Ironically, the Pink Lady is very dry as per today's standards due to its gin base and slight grenadine flavoring lacking the extreme fruit flavor or sweetness that modern drinkers consider .......