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FSSAI issues draft related to provisions for 'country liquor or spirits'.
Jun 06, 2023

The Indian food regulator has issued a draft related to provisions for ‘country liqour or spirits’ and asked the stakeholders to comment.
 
According to the draft, country liquors/Indian liquors or spirits are alcoholic beverages obtained from distillation of fermentable carbohydrates of agricultural origin.
 
Country liquors/Indian Made Liquors may include plain country liquors/plain Indian liquors made from alcoholic distillate obtained from fermented molasses, jaggery (gur), mash of cereals, potato, cassava, fruits, juice or sap of coconut and palm trees, mahua flowers or any other carbohydrates of agricultural origin and ‘Blended country liquors /Blended Indian liquors’, which is a blend of an alcoholic distillate, rectified spirit or neutral spirit.
 
The food authority has listed 28 country liquor or India distilled liquor and 3 undistilled liquor. Apart from this, the draft also lists 51 low alcoholic Indian liquors.
 
The Indian distilled liquor includes Acham made of Rice, Ark orara made of barley, apple, wild apricot, ArakorHor-Alank made of Rice, Aara made of Cereals, Basi made of Rice, BattaSarai, which is clear distilled alcoholic drink, Daru made of Cereal, Handia made of Rice, Haria made of Rice, Juharo made of Rice, Kiad made of rice, Maddafeni made of cashew fruit, Madhu made of rice, MaduaApong made of fingermillet, Mahua made of dried corollas of Madhucalongifolia and NavaSagara made of jaggery, molasses amongst other.  
 
Similarly the three undistilled liquor include Angoori or Kinnauri made from Grapes, Chulli made of Apricot and Ghanti made of apple and apricot.
 
    
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