While the state government is firm on implementing a complete ban on liquor, the prohibition and excise officials are facing a tough challenge trying to rein in arrack production. Recent raids by the ...

SRIKAKULAM: In the wake of increased enforcement, the manufacturers of illicitly distilled arrack (ID Arrack) have now changed their strategy and taken up a new route. They are now transporting the ...

Sri Lanka's arrack producers are trying to take the spirit upmarket Distilled from the sap of the coconut flower, Sri Lankan arrack has been a local favourite for centuries. But now its makers are ...

You have heard enough of whisky. You have drunk a lot of brandy. And what more you need to hear about rum, gin, vodka, tequila, and all! But tell me, what about Batavia Arrack? Heard about it? Beaten?

I’ll come right out and admit that I still haven’t fully wrapped my head around Batavia Arrack. I’ve been trying for a few weeks, and its essential character still eludes me. One night, a sip of the ...

The online auction for arrack and toddy shops in the Union Territory conducted by the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management, evoked a lukewarm response from the bidders on the first day. The ...

Bangalore: Karnataka’s 10-month-old ban on arrack, or country liquor, has been at the centre of a liquor tragedy that has so far claimed 127 lives in and around the state’s capital, with political ...

PUDUCHERRY: Accusing the police of harassing licensed liquor shop owners, arrack and toddy Merchants' Association on Friday petitioned the chief minister seeking his intervention or risk the surrender ...