Skip to main content
Support

Browse by category

All categories
Home

Alcoholic drinks from Cambodia

Sra peang (Cambodian highland jar wine)ស្រាពាង

Sra peang is the jar wine of the highland peoples of northeast Cambodia. Glutinous rice, or rice husk, potato or maize, is mixed with local herbs, and in some types a leaven, and kept in a large earthen jar for one month to two years. It is sipped through long bamboo straws.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Sra peang itself.

Short entryAlcoholic drinks30 days – 2 years

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
glutinous rice
rice husk; also potato or maize in some types; local herb leaves and roots
Starterleaven in the rice husk, potato and maize types

Total time across the recorded steps: 30 days – 2 years

Start
Drag the bar or press Play

What changes: Glutinous rice is mixed with local herbs, and in some types leaven

Step 1 of 3
Mix glutinous rice with local herbs, and in some types leaven
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Output: inoculated rice [WP:Sra peang].

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Sra peang is the jar wine of the highland peoples of northeast Cambodia. Glutinous rice, or rice husk, potato or maize, is mixed with local herbs, and in some types a leaven, and kept in a large earthen jar for one month to two years. It is sipped through long bamboo straws. Made in 3 steps over 30 days – 2 years. The longest step, pack into a large earthenware jar, cover, takes 30 days – 2 years (Wikipedia).

Key numbers
Main step30 days – 2 yearsReported[WP:Sra peang]Pack into a large earthenware jar, cover

What makes this one different

The wine stays in the jar and is sipped through long bamboo straws. Storage runs from one month to two years, the longest for the lak oan leaf type.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Lak oan leaf typeleaves of the lak oan tree ground, sun-dried, steamed and mixed with rice; stored 3 months to 2 years [WP:Sra peang]
  • Rice husk typerice husk, sticky rice and leaven; ready in 1–6 months [WP:Sra peang]
  • Potato typecooked potatoes, rice husk and leaven; at least 1 month [WP:Sra peang]
  • Maize typecooked maize with rice husk and leaven; at least 1 month [WP:Sra peang]

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

Jar wine drinking appears on some Bayon bas-reliefs (Ang Choulean); Angkorian inscriptions mention wine-jar rituals (Cœdès) [WP:Sra peang].

  1. [WP:Sra peang] Wikipedia, Sra peang (outline only)wiki