IF YOU GO to a bar (or, better, when you can go back to a bar) and order a glass of arrack, you will have no real idea of what is in your drink. I don’t mean because the bar might be refilling ...
With a nickname like “the tree of life,” coconut trees are firmly planted on a pedestal across Asia. Its liquid gives water, its flesh food and its sap, well, alcohol. Known as arrack in Sri Lanka and ...
Sailors used to hit town and basically just—to use the modern vernacular—freak the fuck out. After months of stinking water and half-rotten salted beef and weevil-infested sea-biscuit (“bargemen,” ...
Sri Lanka's arrack producers are trying to take the spirit upmarket Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are ...
SRIKAKULAM: In the wake of increased enforcement, the manufacturers of illicitly distilled arrack (ID Arrack) have now changed their strategy and taken up a new route. They are now transporting the ...