So much so that Spanish settlers and merchants would refer to it as vino de coco or coconut wine. Some people consider Bahalina and Tuba to be in the same family as Lambanog since they are both ...

LEYTE—“Tuba,” the bittersweet traditional wine of the Waray, has leveled up and is ready for export. A native of Leyte who retired from work in the United States put up a coconut wine ...

“Tuba” is the wine choice of people in Eastern Visayas, the second-biggest coconut-producing region in the country. For centuries, tuba gatherers in the region have been climbing coconut trees ...

Aside from "lambanog" (the Philippine version of vodka) and "tuba" or coconut wine that the country has been traditionally producing out of toddy, others are frozen/cooled drink, syrup ...

So it was logical to make tuba from the resort’s own coconut trees a herald of the guests’ stay in the island, she said. “When you visit Russia, they have vodka; France, they have wine.

At one lunch hosted by a cousin, the men predictably sat around to partake of tuba (coconut wine) and sumsuman (food served during drinking) and swap stories that an aunt, now departed, ...

This is different from cutting the flower sheath to gather the sap for coconut wine or ‘tuba’. The tuba can also be fermented into vinegar. The PCA official projected that Zamboanga City ...

At least eight people have died and hundreds were taken to hospitals in the Philippines after drinking coconut wine believed to contain high levels of methanol, authorities said on Monday.