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Afghanistan: drinks & ingredients
Serving tea and white sugared almonds (called nuql) is customary during Afghan festivals.
Albania: drinks & ingredients
Mountain tea, known as çaj mali, is a herbal tea associated with Albania and the wider Balkans.
Algeria: drinks & ingredients
Fruit juice and soft drinks, called gazouz, are common and often drunk daily.
Alvarinho
A Portuguese white-grape reference for exploring varietal and regional wines.
Andorra: craft beer and mountain producers
Andorra’s official visitor guide documents craft beer producers in Ordino and La Massana, alongside local wine and other mountain products.
Angola: drinks & ingredients
Mongozo is a traditional homemade beer made from palm nuts, a specialty of the Lundas (Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul).
Antigua and Barbuda: drinks & ingredients
Local drinks include mauby, seamoss, tamarind juice, raspberry juice, mango juice, lemonade, coconut milk, hibiscus juice, ginger beer, passion fruit juice, guava juice, soursop juice and ginger beer, a soft drink.
Armenia: drinks & ingredients
Pomegranate juice (Armenian: Նռան հյութ) – is a popular beverage in Armenia and can be found in almost all Armenian cities and villages.
Australia: wine zones, regions and subregions
Explore Australian wine geography using Wine Australia’s official register of geographical indications.
Austria: drinks & ingredients
The most popular types of beer are pale lager (known as Märzen in Austria), naturally cloudy Zwicklbier, and wheat beer.
Azerbaijan: drinks & ingredients
A sherbet (Azerbaijani: şərbət) is a sweet cold drink made of fruit juice mixed or boiled with sugar, often perfumed with rose water.
Bahamas: drinks & ingredients
Sky juice is a drink consisting of coconut water blended with condensed milk and gin.
Bahrain: drinks & ingredients
Qahwah is the national beverage while tea, particularly karak, is drunk for hospitality.
Bangladesh: drinks & ingredients
Taal er rosh (Palm juice) is the sap extracted from palm trees and drank as a cool beverage in summer.
Barbados: drinks & ingredients
Banks Beer is Barbados' own brew; it's distinctly hoppy, like a traditional English bitter.
Belarus: drinks & ingredients
The traditional hard drink is vodka or harelka (гарэлка), including varieties made from birch sap (biarozavik, бярозавік) or flavored with forest herbs (zubrovka, зуброўка).
Belgium: drinks & ingredients
Belgium has a long-established beer tradition.
Belize: drinks & ingredients
Fresh juice or water are typically served, occasionally replaced by soft drinks and alcoholic beverages (homemade wines made from berries, cashew, sorosi, grapefruit and rice are especially common).
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