How Cambodian Palm Wine is Made

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In today's video, we're going to see how palm wine is harvested here in Phnom Sampov Battambang...
Although palm wine has a long history, the window to enjoy it is short.
The clock starts ticking when someone taps palm wine’s only ingredient: sap from a palm tree. In just hours, the sap becomes wine with an alcohol percentage of 4 percent, about the level of a weak beer. Within a day, the wine turns into mouth-puckering vinegar.
To tap tree sap, harvesters climb enormous palms or set up ladders. They make careful cuts at the crown of the tree-sometimes cutting and draining entire trees-and place plastic containers at the base to catch dripping sap. The wine immediately begins fermenting, both from yeasts in the air and from the remnants of wine left in the containers to add flavor. Raffia palms, coconut palms, date palms, and oil palms all produce the sugary liquid that turns into palm wine.
Fans describe palm wine’s taste as milky and powerfully sweet, growing more sour and yeasty with time. But unlike a merlot, the taste changes in minutes rather than years.
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I wanted to try some palm wine.

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That was one of many things I learned during the Khmer Rouge era. I made a huge mistake when I made the alcahol kind. I gave them all to my parent. But they didn't drink alcohol. Sorry dad and mom. They put chips of different kind of wood in the container before putting up there on the tree.

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Palm wine can make you sick if they don’t prepare it properly. It’s worth more as sugar but takes more work to process.

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@@saviyou You are right. But I told to use chips of wood from trees around the house especially the tree with very bitter leaves. I don't know the name. You put it in the container before you collect the juice. This drink is not to keep. It's normally for daily drink. And you were showing the male flower. I never used male flower for juice. I only use the one that was about to make fruits. Yes, we squeez them to get the juice. as well. And the cut is also has a method that we used. Palm juice should not keep longer than a day.

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