* Philippines 'vodka' a high-risk pursuit for backyard distillers

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Philippines 'vodka' a high-risk pursuit for backyard distillers



    AFP
    January 06, 2013 10:57PM

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WITH their huge copper vats and open fires, little-known backyard liquor makers have toiled for generations on Philippine coconut farms to distill their equivalent of Russian vodka.

Once considered a lowly peasant's drink whose potency is said to put other liquors and spirits worldwide in the shade, the lambanog is the Philippine version of coconut arrack also made in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.


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