Saturday, March 1, 2014

Palm Wine

I looked up palm wine because I never really understood if it was alcoholic or not. Apparently it is a sap that comes out a tree in a sweet and white form. It starts fermenting as soon as it is let out of the tree. Within two hours, the sap has a 4% alcohol content level. It eventually turns from a strong wine (up to a day of fermentation) into a vinegar. Here is a video I found of someone tapping into a tree to get palm wine.
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Unknown said...

I wouldn't have thought that they would still harvest palm wine the same way they did over a century ago. That information makes things a lot clearer; I really wasn't sure if it had alcohol or not. It was described well in the book, but it was really interesting to see how they actually harvested the palm oil.

March 1, 2014 at 11:52 PM

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