he says, was the time he tried to make chicha. The recipe for the Peruvian corn-based beer, cobbled together from bits of pre-Incan archaeological evidence, called for chewed corn partially ...

Some examples have even been aged in tequila barrels. The official beer of Peru is literally made with spit. Traditional chicha brewers chew on maize to allow natural enzymes from their mouths to ...

I sniffed the liquid, whose aroma resembled beer, kombucha and juice all in one – as innocent as a libation can smell. "Believe it or not," Izquierdo said, "but chicha has been banned since the ...

The molle fruits were used to make a fermented alcoholic drink, a bit like beer, known as chicha. A few steps away, in a garbage pit, the team found seeds from vilca trees (Anadenanthera colubrina).