THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Ill. 103 
adding more water and solid ingredients—it does not matter much what 
they are. 
The odor of the sa-fu-eng’ is the worst stench in Bontoc. I never closely 
investigated the beverage personally—but I have no reason to doubt what 
the Igorot says of it; but if all is true, why is it not fatal?” 
REPORT ON THE USE OF A FERMENTED RICE DRINK IN 
NORTHERN LUZON. 
By H. OTLEY BEYER. 
So far as my information extends, this rice drink, in Luzon, 
is only made and used by the following tribes: Ifugao, Benguet 
Igorot, Lepanto Igorot, Amburayan Igorot, Itneg (or Tinggian), 
Bontok Igorot, Kalinga, and Iloko. The Iloko is the only Chris- 
tian tribe making it, and with them its use is chiefly confined to 
the barrios. 
This drink is known by different names among different tribes, 
those with which I am conversant being as follows: Pure Ifugao 
dialect, bubud; Sub-Ifugao dialect, baiyax;?° Benguet-Lepanto- 
Amburayan Igorot, taput, or tapoi; Bontok Igorot, tafui, or tafer; 
and Iloko, binadayan, or bobud. 
Although it is made by all of the tribes mentioned above, it is 
secondary to basi (a drink made from sugar-cane) in most of 
them. In fact, the two are oftentimes mixed in such varying 
proportions that it is frequently impossible to tell which is the 
chief constituent. Among the Ifugao tribe, however, the rice 
drink is the principal and almost the only one in use. A very 
large quantity is used, and it is made in the following manner :?! 
The details of the manufacture differ slightly with different 
varieties of rice, the process here described being for the red 
rice known as dayadkot and covering a period of three days. The 
sheaves of rice are brought from the granary, threshed with 
mortar and pestle, and winnowed in the usual manner. The 
threshed rice is then placed in a large iron pan (known as a 
palyuk) and roasted over a slow fire until the germ of the rice 
is killed. Equal quantities of the roasted rice and water are 
* The spelling of Ifugao words in this paper is in accordance with the 
phonetic alphabet adopted by me for use in transcribing the two Ifugao 
dialects. A copy of this alphabet will shortly be published in Section D of 
This Journal. The “x,” representing the sound of “ch’ in German Bach, 
is the only character used in this paper which might be misunderstood. 
For the method used by the Bontok Igorot in making this drink, see 
Jenks, Pub. Phil. Ethnol. Surv. (1905) 1, 144 to 145. Jenks’ description is 
too brief to be wholly satisfactory, and contains several inaccuracies. The 
process in Bontok does not differ greatly from that in use in Ifugao. 
