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Colombian Beverages

Specialised

AGUAPANELA. TINTO. CHOCOLATE SANTAFEREÑO with cheese in it. CHICHA — maize, fermented, Muisca in origin, and ⚠ PROHIBITED BY LAW IN 1948 in a measure aimed at Indigenous and poor consumption and at the beer industry’s competition; it survived in Boyacá and in the Chorro de Quevedo in Bogotá and is again legal. MASATO — ⚠ A DIFFERENT DRINK, rice or maize, thicker, shorter-fermented, sweeter, and not to be merged with chicha. GUARAPO, fermented cane juice. CHAMPÚS and LULADA of Valle. REFAJO — beer with the red soda Colombiana, drunk by the jug. AGUARDIENTE anisado, departmental and fiercely local — Antioqueño, Néctar, Cristal, Blanco del Valle — and RON de Caldas and Medellín. And CANELAZO in the cold south.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Muisca community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Chicha, a fermented maize beverage of Muisca origin, was prohibited by Colombian law in 1948 in a measure directed at Indigenous and working-class consumption and aligned with the interests of the brewing industry. It survived in Boyacá and in parts of Bogotá and is again legal. Masato is recorded as a separate beverage — rice or maize based, shorter-fermented and sweeter — and is not merged with chicha. documented
  • Chicha is prohibited by Colombian law, in a measure aimed at Indigenous and working-class consumption and aligned with the brewing industry; it survives in Boyacá and is later legalised again. documented

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