List of national liquors

A bottle of Canadian whisky

Tequila, a national liquor of Mexico, is a spirit made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, 65 kilometres (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

Georgian chacha

Argentine fernet

Ouzo is an anise-flavored aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus, and a symbol of Greek culture.

"Very Old Rare Sherry", Pedro Ximenez by Garvey. Jerez de la Frontera (Andalusia, Spain), aged 30 years. Sherry is a national liquor of Spain.

This is a list of national liquors. A national liquor is a distilled alcoholic beverage considered standard and respected in a given country. While the status of many such drinks may be informal, there is usually a consensus in a given country that a specific drink has national status or is the "most popular liquor" in a given nation. This list is distinct from national drinks, which include non-alcoholic beverages.

By country

• Albania: rakia^[1]
• Argentina: fernet
• Armenia: oghi
• Australia: rum (Bundaberg)^[2]
• Austria: schnapps^[3] (fruit)
• Barbados: rum^[4] (sugarcane)
• Belarus: krambambula
• Belgium: jenever (malt and juniper)
• Belize: rum^[5] (sugarcane)
• Bermuda: Black Seal Rum ^[6]
• Bolivia: singani^[7] (Muscat grapes)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rakija (fruit: apples, plums, pears)
• Brazil: cachaça^[8] (sugarcane)
• Bulgaria: rakia^[9] (grapes, apricots, plums)

Painted bottles of Sombai Liqueur with pictures of Angkor temples

• Cambodia: sombai ^[10] (Sraa Tram / infused rice wine with the krama, Cambodian national cloth, on the bottle neck)
• Canada: Canadian rye whisky
• Chile: pisco^[11] (grapes; in contention with Peru^[12])
• China: moutai^[13][14] (Sorghum)
• Colombia: aguardiente^[15]
• Costa Rica: guaro (sugarcane)
• Croatia: rakija^[16] (fruit: plums, pears)
• Cuba: Havana Club rum
• Czech Republic: Becherovka^[17] (herbs) or slivovice^[18] (plums)
• Denmark: akvavit (grain or potatoes)
• Dominican Republic: rum (Brugal) and mamajuana
• Ecuador: aguardiente (sugarcane)
• El Salvador: Tíck Táck or Torito^[19][20][21] (sugarcane)
• Estonia: Vana Tallinn
• Ethiopia: tej^[22]
• Finland: Koskenkorva Viina^[23] (grain (barley) and Finlandia vodka^[24] (barley)
• France: brandies, (Calvados, an apple brandy from Normandy, Armagnac, Cognac),^[25] Champagne,^[26] Pastis
• French West Indies: rum^[27] (sugarcane)
• Georgia: chacha
• Germany: Schnapps (fruit) (in the South), Korn (in the North)
• Ghana: akpeteshie
• Greece: ouzo^[28] (distilled 96 percent pure ethyl alcohol and anise)
  • Crete: raki (pomace)
• Guatemala: Ron Zacapa Centenario
• Haiti: rum, and clairin (sugarcane)
• Hungary: Unicum (herbs), pálinka^[29] (fruit)
• Iceland: brennivín, aka “Black Death” (potatoes)
• India: rum (Old Monk), feni (cashew or coconut), toddy (palm wine)
• Indonesia: arrack
• Iran: aragh (raisin vodka)
• Iraq: arak
• Ireland: Irish whiskey (fermented mash of cereal grains), Poitín (malted barley grain or potatoes)
• Israel: arak^[30]
• Italy: grappa (pomace and grape residue left over from winemaking), limoncello
• Jamaica: rum^[31][32] (sugarcane)
• Japan: shochu^[31] (rice), sake, Japanese whisky
• Jordan: arak
• Kenya: dawa^[33] (vodka, honey, sugar, lime)
• Korea: soju^[31] (rice, barley, corn, potato, sweet potato)

A shot of Riga Black Balsam Currant

• Latvia: balsam
• Lebanon: arak^[34] (anise)
• Levant: arak
• Lithuania: midus
• Macedonia: rakija and mastika (Typically, red and/or white grapes. Plums used in some areas such as Kichevo. Mastika is anise and herb flavored rakija)^[35]
• Malaysia: tuak
• Mexico: tequila^[36] (Blue Agave), mezcal, rum, Kahlúa, and brandy^[37]
• Montenegro: rakija (loza), produced from red grapes
• Nepal: raksi
• Netherlands: jenever (malt and juniper)
• Nicaragua: rum (sugarcane)
• Norway: akevitt (must be distilled from Norwegian potatoes and aged for a minimum of six months in oak casks to be labeled "Norwegian Akevitt",^[38] unlike Danish and Swedish akvavit, which is commonly grain-based and unaged)
• Panama: Seco Herrerano (sugarcane)
• Peru: pisco^[11] (grapes; in contention with Chile^[12])
• Philippines: lambanog, basi
• Poland: vodka^[39] (grain, rye, wheat, potatoes, or sugar beet Molasses) and mead (fermented honey)
• Portugal: port wine, ginjinha or jeropiga
• Puerto Rico: rum, pitorro
• Romania: ţuică^[40] (plums) or palinka (fruit)
• Russia: vodka^[26] (grain, rye, wheat, potatoes, or sugar beet molasses)
• Serbia: rakija (šljivovica (damson plums)), lozovača (pomace and grape residue left over from winemaking) and vinjak
• Slovakia: borovička^[41] (juniper berries)
• South Africa: Amarula (cream liqueur)
• Spain: sherry (brandy-fortified Spanish wine),^[31]
  • Asturias: alcoholic cider^[42]
  • Navarre: patxaran^[43]
• Sri Lanka: Kasippu arrack (coconut)^[44]

Akvavit

• Sweden: brännvin, akvavit and snaps
• Switzerland: absinthe, Goldschläger, Pflümli, kirsch
• Syria: arak (anise)
• Taiwan: kaoliang
• Tanzania: konyagi
• Thailand: Sato, Mekhong whiskey (95% sugarcane/molasses and 5% rice), rum (SangSom), brandy (Regency)
• Trinidad & Tobago: rum (sugarcane)
• Tunisia: boukha^[40] (fig brandy)

Toasting with rakı, in typical rakı glasses

• Turkey: rakı^[40][45] (twice-distilled Suma and anise)
• Uganda: waragi (Ugandan gin)
• Ukraine: horilka (Ukrainian vodka)
• United Kingdom
  • England - Gin is a traditional southern, middle-class drink; almost always consumed in a gin and tonic.
  • Northern Ireland - Irish whiskey's popularity and "national" status is uniform across the whole island of Ireland, and is as popular in Northern Ireland as in the Republic of Ireland.
  • Scotland - Scotch whisky, particularly Single malt whisky is considered the national drink of Scotland.
  • Wales - single malt Welsh whisky (Penderyn Whiskey)
• United States:^[46] American whiskey, bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, rye whiskey, and moonshine
• Venezuela: rum^[47] (sugarcane) and Miche andino^[48] (brown sugar)
  • Cocuy^[49] is made from the stalk of agave cocuy baked and fermented in the desert regions of central western Venezuela.^[50]
  • Miche, a strong brandy consumed in the Andean region, is obtained by the fermentation of panela (brown sugar) and is then distilled.
• Vietnam: Rượu nếp (sometimes also called rượu nếp bắc or rượu nếp cẩm, literally "northern glutinous rice wine"), Rượu đế (distilled liquor from Vietnam, made of either glutinous or non-glutinous rice), Rượu cần (fermented rice wine produced in Vietnam), Rượu thuốc (literally "medicinal liquor"), snake wine

See also

References

Further reading

• López, Tracy (November 16, 2012). "Mezcal vs. Tequila: National Mexican Liquor Faces Stiff Competition". Fox News Latino. Retrieved May 20, 2016. 

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