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Top 10 Strangest Liquors in the World

What drink do you fancy? People all over the world enjoy raising a glass and sipping on a beverage as a favourite pastime. It's what's in their glass that may cause us to raise an eyebrow. Check out the top 10 list of the oddest alcoholic drinks found around the globe

By Kevin Revolinski for readersdigest.ca

1. Chicha (the Old-School Method)

Some drinks get your mouth watering, but others start with your mouth watering. No joke. If you’ve ever had chicha, you’d know. The person making traditional fermented chicha chews corn kernels then spits them out. The enzymes of the saliva break down the root to fermentable sugars and so the process begins. It is a sort of cloudy, yellow color and a bit sour. You can still find this in some places in Central America, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Anything found commercially doesn’t involve that chewing part. (Photo by synaethesia / Flickr Creative Commons)

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    Too bad you missed out some interesting African brews! Banana wine fermented under a fire in the ground is delicious. And mbege - a dusty-rose-coloured thick soup-like beer brewed from millet, with lots of the roughage floating on top, mmmm!

    Submitted by Marianne on Wed. 2011-05-04 12:05am

    We saw many bottle of snakes and scorpions in bottles in Vietnam. We didn't buy any but did have a wee taste test. More like a whiskey than a wine in my opinion.

    Submitted by Beth Denman on Mon. 2011-05-09 10:05pm

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