A glass jug of clear-milky colored raffia wine on a stool. Raffia wine is a local naturally occurring alcoholic drink tapped from raffia palm trees (sap) and is native to the tropical regions of Africa and Central/South America.

An open carafe of raffia palm wine sits on a kitchen cabinet by the window. Raffia wine is stored either in such carafes or in calabash gourds covered with palm leaves to slow down fermentation.

A google image picture of a palm wine tapper on a raffia palm tree.

Nectar from the gods - Raffia Wine from our own trees. When it is freshly tapped, it is as sweet as honeyed mead, but ferments as the hours pass by. Some people prefer it when it is 12 - 24 hours old because it is stronger and more "manly".

I miss home already.
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