IF YOU GO to a bar (or, better, when you can go back to a bar) and order a glass of arrack, you will have no real idea of what is in your drink. I don’t mean because the bar might be refilling ...

With a nickname like “the tree of life,” coconut trees are firmly planted on a pedestal across Asia. Its liquid gives water, its flesh food and its sap, well, alcohol. Known as arrack in Sri Lanka and ...

While the state government is firm on implementing a complete ban on liquor, the prohibition and excise officials are facing a tough challenge trying to rein in arrack production. Recent raids by the ...

Sri Lanka's arrack producers are trying to take the spirit upmarket Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are ...

I’ll come right out and admit that I still haven’t fully wrapped my head around Batavia Arrack. I’ve been trying for a few weeks, and its essential character still eludes me. One night, a sip of the ...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that the ban on arrack did not help curb alcoholism but it affected the livelihoods of those who were in the business. Speaking at a convention organised by ...

Every time I visit Hi-Time Wine Cellar nowadays, I buy myself a rum–have I written this already, the last time I wrote about a rum from the Costa Mesa playground of the boozehounds? Maybe. Anyhoo, ...

Are bottles sexy? It would appear so, for the Karnataka govt is planning to chuck the system of selling arrack in sachets and revert to bottles. BANGALORE: Are bottles sexy? It would appear so, for ...

“One writes because one cannot but write.” Mathew Vincent Menacherry is tad sceptical if the statement makes him pompous. But that's the only way he can explain being a writer. “For the longest time ...

Sri Lanka's arrack producers are trying to take the spirit upmarket Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are ...