Tuak

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This article is about one fermented beverage known as tuak. For the other, see palm wine.

Tuak is an alcoholic beverage made of fermented rice, yeast and sugar and drunk in Borneo and East Malaysia. The beverage is a popular drink among the Ibans of Sarawak during the Gawai festivals.

The same word is used for other drinks in Indonesia, for example the palm wine of the Batak people of North Sumatra.[citation needed]

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