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List of national liquors

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List of national liquors

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
  • Argentina: fernet
  • Armenia: oghi
  • Australia: rum (Bundaberg)
  • Austria: schnapps (fruit)
  • Barbados: rum (sugarcane)
  • Belarus: krambambula
  • Belgium: jenever (malt and juniper)
  • Belize: rum (sugarcane)
  • Bermuda: Black Seal Rum
  • Bolivia: singani (Muscat grapes)
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rakija (fruit: apples, plums, pears)
  • Brazil: cachaça (sugarcane)
  • Bulgaria: rakia (grapes, apricots, plums)
  • Cambodia: sombai (Sraa Tram / infused rice wine with the krama, Cambodian national cloth, on the bottle neck)
  • Canada: Canadian rye whisky
  • Chile: pisco (grapes; in contention with Peru)
  • China: moutai (Sorghum)
  • Colombia: aguardiente
  • Costa Rica: guaro (sugarcane)
  • Croatia: rakija (fruit: plums, pears)
  • Cuba: Havana Club rum
  • Czech Republic: Becherovka (herbs) or slivovice (plums)
  • Denmark: akvavit (grain or potatoes)
  • Dominican Republic: rum (Brugal) and mamajuana
  • Ecuador: aguardiente (sugarcane)
  • El Salvador: Tíck Táck or Torito (sugarcane)
  • Estonia: Vana Tallinn
  • Ethiopia: tej
  • Finland: Koskenkorva Viina (grain (barley) and Finlandia vodka (barley)
  • France: brandies, (Calvados, an apple brandy from Normandy, Armagnac, Cognac), Champagne, Pastis
  • French West Indies: rum (sugarcane)
  • Georgia: chacha
  • Germany: Schnapps (fruit) (in the South), Korn (in the North)
  • Ghana: akpeteshie
  • Greece: ouzo (distilled 96 percent pure ethyl alcohol and anise)
  • Crete: raki (pomace)
  • Guatemala: Rum, Cusha
  • Haiti: rum, and clairin (sugarcane)
  • Hungary: Unicum (herbs), pálinka (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
  • Italy: grappa (pomace and grape residue left over from winemaking), limoncello
  • Jamaica: rum (sugarcane)
  • Japan: shochu (rice), sake, Japanese whisky
  • Jordan: arak
  • Kenya: dawa (vodka, honey, sugar, lime)
  • Korea: soju (rice, barley, corn, potato, sweet potato)
  • Latvia: balsam
  • Lebanon: arak (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)
  • Malaysia: tuak
  • Mexico: tequila (Blue Agave), mezcal, rum, Kahlúa, and brandy
  • 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", unlike Danish and Swedish akvavit, which is commonly grain-based and unaged)
  • Panama: Seco Herrerano (sugarcane)
  • Peru: pisco (grapes; in contention with Chile)
  • Philippines: lambanog, basi
  • Poland: vodka (grain, rye, wheat, potatoes, or sugar beet Molasses) and mead (fermented honey)
  • Portugal: port wine, ginjinha or jeropiga
  • Puerto Rico: rum, pitorro
  • Romania: ţuică (plums) or palinka (fruit)
  • Russia: vodka (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: slivovica - spirit made from plums about 52% strong (Borovička) (juniper berries)
  • South Africa: Amarula (cream liqueur)
  • Spain: sherry (brandy-fortified Spanish wine),
  • Asturias: alcoholic cider
  • Navarre: patxaran
  • Sri Lanka: Kasippu arrack (coconut)
  • 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 (fig brandy)
  • Turkey: rakı (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: American whiskey, bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, rye whiskey, and moonshine
  • Venezuela: rum (sugarcane) and Miche andino (brown sugar)
  • Cocuy is made from the stalk of agave cocuy baked and fermented in the desert regions of central western Venezuela.
  • 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"), Rượu Nhàu Rừng - Noni Herbal Wine and Spirit (literally "medicinal liquor")snake wine

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