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Fermentation Atlas

Alcoholic drinks

Beers, wines, rice wines, spirits and other drinks where yeasts make alcohol.

298 entries listed here, page 1 of 4.

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FermentRegionMain stepTemperatureSaltpH
African honey drinks (bessoudioury, iQhilika and others)Sub-Saharan Africa2 days30 °C3.6–3.8
African oil-palm, raffia, coconut and date-palm wines (regional names)West and Central Africa35 days3.5–4
African opaque sorghum beers (catalogue)Africa2–3 days25–30 °C3.3–4
Agadagidi (Nigerian plantain wine)South-west Nigeria3 days5.3–5.4
Akumochizake (ash-preserved sake)Japan7.2 → 5.5
Ale (top-fermented barley beer)worldwide14 days20 °C5.5
Aloja de algarroba (Prosopis pod beer)Northern and Chaco Argentina2 days3.8
Amarone della Valpolicella (appassimento)Valpolicella, Verona province, Veneto, Italyat least 2 years
Amgba and bili bili (Cameroon, Chad)Cameroon4 days
Areki (Ethiopian distilled grain spirit)Ethiopia5 days4.3
Asava and Arishta (Ayurvedic self-fermented medicinal wines)Indian subcontinent7 days – 5.9 months20–35 °C
Atingba (Meitei rice beer) and yu (its distillate)Manipur, India3–6 days
AwamoriOkinawa, Japanat least 6 months
Bahalina (aged red-bark tuba)Leyte, Philippinesat least 12 months4.4–5
BalchéYucatán Peninsula24 h – 2 days
Banana beer (urwagwa, mubisi, mbege)Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, DR Congo, Kenya2–6 days25 °C4–4.7
Berliner WeisseBerlin / Northern Germany2 days5.1
Bhaati jaanrSikkim, Darjeeling, Nepal6–9 days6.3 → 3.21
Bignay wine (Philippine Antidesma fruit wine)Philippines3 months
Birch sap wineBritain24 h – 3 days
Bodaimoto sake (mizu-moto)Nara17 days35 °C4.1
Boj (Q'eqchi' cane-maize drink)Alta Verapaz, Guatemala8 days3.3
Booka (Guji Oromo honey wine in a cow bladder)Southern Ethiopia2–3 days2.9–3.1
Borde (Ethiopian maize/cereal sour beer)Southern and western Ethiopia44 h – 2 days3.5–4.1
Botrytised (noble rot) sweet wineTokajat least 3 years
Bouza (Egyptian bread beer)Egyptat least 24 h3.7
Braga (Russian home grain mash and beer)Russia3–5 days
Busaa (Kenyan maize–millet opaque beer)Western Kenya, now drunk across Kenya2–4 days25 °C4.9 → 3.55
Caiçuma (Amazonian peach-palm, manioc, banana or maize drink)Brazilian Amazon
Carbonic-maceration red wine (Beaujolais, Rioja, vino novello)Beaujolais5–12 days20–30 °C
Cashew feni (caju feni)Goa, India2–3 days
Cauim (Tupinambá chewed manioc or maize beer)Coastal Brazil
Caxiri (Juruna/Yudjá cassava beer)Brazil, on the Xingu River2 days4.8 → 3.15
Chacha (Georgian pomace spirit)Georgia5–6 months
Chang'aa (Kenyan distilled grain and sugar spirit)Kenya7 days25–30 °C3.3–4.2
Cheka (Konso/Dirashe vegetable–cereal beer)Southwest Ethiopia30 days4.1 → 2.9
Chhaang (Tibetan and Himalayan barley beer)Tibet and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Ladakh, Lahaul and Spiti, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal2–3 days4.1
Chhang (Ladakh barley beer) with phabsLadakh, India3–10 days6.5 → 4.03
Chicha de jora (malted-maize chicha)Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador24 h – 15 days3.5–5.4
Cholai (Bengal country rice spirit)West Bengal, India5–10 days
Choujiu (Xi'an milky rice wine)Xi'an and Guanzhong, Shaanxi, China7 days22 °C
Chubitchi (Garo rice beer)Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India7–30 days3.9 → 3.15
Chulli (Kinnauri wild-apricot drink)India2–3 days
Chuwak / chuak (Tripuri rice beer and its distillate)India3 days3.6–3.7
Cider (apple)England, Franceat least 42 days3.3–4
Cidre de feu (Quebec fire cider)Quebec, Canada
Coarse-qu mulberry-fall wine (笨麴桑落酒)Northern China7 days
Coarse-qu white mash, drink-and-refill (笨麴白醪酒)Northern China7 days
Coconut toddy of the Pacific atolls (karewe, kaleve, demangi, segero)Kiribati12 h – 3 days
Colonche (prickly pear wine)Altiplano of central-northern Mexico12 h25–30 °C
Columella's sun mead (aqua mulsa)Roman Italy40 days
Cormé (service-tree fruit drink)France4–5 days
Divine-qu glutinous-millet or proso wine (造酒法 under ch. 64)Northern China6 days
Divine-qu non-glutinous rice mash (神麴粳米醪)Northern China
Divine-qu proso-millet wine made at mulberry-leaf fall (造神麴黍米酒方)Northern China
Doburoku (unpressed cloudy sake)Japan7 days
Dolo (Burkina Faso sorghum beer)Burkina Faso12–24 h4–5
Dongdongju (bueuiju, floating-ant wine)Korea5–7 days
Doro (Zimbabwean opaque beer; hwahwa, mhamba, uthwala)Zimbabwe2–3 days
Early Mesoamerican cacao-pulp beveragePuerto Escondido, lower Ulúa Valley, Honduras
East Asian fruit wines (bayberry, mulberry, goji and plum)China6–15 days17–20 °C4.9 → 3.49
Enturire (Kiga sorghum-honey beer)Kigezi, south-west Uganda2–4 days4.5
Fermented sugarcane-juice wines (malamba, betsa, guarapo)Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon2–28 days20 °C
Foxtail-millet wine (粟米酒), the poor household's wineChina28 days
Fruit and country wines (home fruit winemaking)United States2–12 months
Genshu, shiboritate, muroka, tobingakoi and shizuku (pressing and finishing styles)Japan21–28 days8–18 °C
Ginger beer (brewed, ginger-beer plant or ginger bug)England and the British Isles4 days2.9
Ginjo and daiginjo sake (with junmai ginjo and junmai daiginjo)Japan6–12 months
Gose (historical, Goslar and Leipzig)Goslar, then Leipzig and Halle, Germany2.3–2.8 months
Gruit aleLow Countries, Rhineland, Westphalia, northwestern Europe3.4–3.6
Gwaha-ju ("summer-passing wine")Korea12 days4–4.1
Gyeongju Gyodong beopjuGyodong, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea2 months
Hakka niangjiu (Hakka huangjiu)Guangdong, in the Lingnan area of southern China42 days19–21 °C4
Handia (haria, hadiya)West Bengal5 days4.3–4.7
Hansan sogokjuHansan, Seocheon County, South Chungcheong, South Korea2–3.3 months3.5–3.7
Hard kombuchaSold commercially, including in the United States21 days23 °C2.6–2.7
Hedong summer white wine (河東頤白酒)Hedong24 h
Hiyaoroshi (autumn-release once-pasteurised sake)Japan6–12 months
Hon-mirinJapan30 days – 2 months20–30 °C
Hongqu jiu / Fujian laojiu (red-qu rice wine)Fujian30 days

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