Tuba - the beverage

Posted by David Dagoli on March 28, 2014, 11:52 pm
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We love tuba - the drink made from the fermented sap of the coconut palm. Whenever we see it, we try it. One of the best we ever had was in a Pemex station in Autlán. Tuba is a milky-coloured, usually cool drink which has an interesting tangy-sweet taste. It doesn't taste distinctly "coconutty" - in fact you wouldn't think it came from a coconut origin. Good tuba always seems to be kept-in and poured-out of a very organic-looking dried gourd. It's always topped off with a scoopful of cacahuates - peanuts. The combination of the crunchy savory peanuts with the tangy water is wonderful. There's a vendor named Carlos (from Melaque)who sells it on the beach here in La Manz regularly - 20 pesos a glass. Carlos says it's non-alcoholic - and it seems so. It's tasty and thirst-quenching... Here's photo of Carlos today on the beach at Quinta Valentina, with his gourdful of Tuba.

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