Baram Is Alcoholic Beverages From Kalimantan
In Central Kalimantan for the connoisseur of alcoholic beverages, local liquor option heated body is worth try a Baram. Not known certainty the Dayak people know when the fermentation and distillation techniques of Baram, who clearly has been a tradition for hundreds of years because Baram is used in rituals as offerings to the ancestral spirits.
Tourist drunk a Baram liquor
Need special talents and skills to produce a delicious Baram, because it is through many different processes and measuring materials. Recipes and skills to make this Baram inherited hereditary and mostly done by women. Baram-making ingredients include glutinous rice, palm, indigo, and yeast. Generally, ground rice and mixed until smooth with a variety of spices, like cinnamon and fennel. After it made into dough with water and then mixed with dots formed by hand. Dough will be made into yeast is then dried in the sun (few days or a week). The longer kept, the alcohol content the higher Baram and intoxicating. Baram generally have alcohol levels above 10% – 20%, the results are buried for a week more, and taste will be sweet. Baram alcohol levels can be measured from the odor and clarity. Baram is stinking it means to have a high alcohol content. Baram also, more transparent and clear, the higher levels of alcohol, can reach 80% if buried for months. Baram is looking a little murky and low alcohol content it was a bit sour. Baram as one important element in the ritual homage ancestral spirit, also plays an important role in welcoming guests or just a complement when you’re chatting with friends. Baram served to welcome guests in the large Dayak ritual, or those who play dice night (a kind of gambling that usually lasted a few nights when someone dies).
Baram drinkers will carry the emotions appropriate environment. For example in a festive party atmosphere, so the drinker will go to laugh and have fun. However, it’s depending on their habits when drunk. Some people tend to be quiet, but there is also a noisy own, there is a smooth even tell. Baram will be very intoxicating if taken in a considerable number of lots. Drunk effect can be last two or three days, with the head felt a little dizzy, the body tends to limp, and the vision a bit dazed. The effect of this old drunk is does not apply to those who are used Baram, especially in the rural Dayak community. In Palangkaraya city and its surroundings, in addition to the customary ritual, Baram commonly found in traditional markets and liquor stores. However, Baram can be found in homes that are producing by citizens (illegally) in the household industry.
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