THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
PART III.7 
FERMENTED BEVERAGES WHICH ARE NOT DISTILLED. 
By H. D. Gipss* anp F. AGCAOILI. 
(From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
WITH SPECIAL REPORTS FROM VARIOUS DISTRICTS. 
By H. OTLEY BryeR, JOHN M. GARVAN, AND EMERSON BREWER CHRISTIE. 
(From the Division of Ethnology, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 
CONTENTS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
. BASI, A BEVERAGE MADE FROM THE JUICE OF THE SWEATS CANE. 
BEVERAGES MADE FROM FERMENTED RICE. 
REPORT ON THE USE oF A FERMENTED Rice DRINK IN NoRTHERN LUZON. 
REPORT ON DRINKS AND DRINKING AMONG THE MANDAYA, DEBABAON, Ma- 
NOBO, AND MANGGUANGAN TRIBES IN MINDANAO. 
REPORT ON THE DRINKING CUSTOMS OF THE SUBANUNS. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The only fermented, but not distilled, beverage manufactured 
on an extensive commercial scale in the Philippine Islands is 
beer. The usual process of cold fermentation of a mash made 
from rice, barley, other grains, and hops, is employed in the 
only brewery in the Islands, which is located in Manila. The 
output, now almost 4,000,000 liters annually, is steadily increas- 
ing and has already been tabulated for the past six years. This 
is the only alcoholic beverage of this class which is taxed directly, 
and the annual revenue from the beer tax is over 150,000 pesos.‘ 
The product of this brewery is consumed by both the foreign 
and the better class of the native population, and in this respect 
differs from the other beverages described in this paper, which 
are consumed almost entirely by the natives. 
* Part I. A study of some palms of commercial importance with special 
reference to the saps and their uses. By H. D. Gibbs. This Journal, Sec. A 
(1911), 6, 99 to 206. 
Part II. Distilled liquors, their consumption and manufacture. By H. D. 
Gibbs and W. C. Holmes. Ibid. (1912), 7, 19. 
* Associate professor of chemistry, University of the Philippines. 
* Loc. cit., p. 100. 
“One peso Philippine currency is equal to 50 cents United States 
currency. 
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