Is Hunza Water halal?
'Hunza Water' is the generic name given to a wide variety of local wines and spirits prepared from grapes, mulberries, apples and apricots in Gilgit Baltistan. ... But despite the ban on alcohol for Muslims, there is a huge segment of the population that consumes 'bootlegged' liquor all over Pakistan
Hunza Water Price?
What is Hunza Water Wine/alcohol What is Made of?
Do Hunza people drink alcohol?
I can't be arsed rambling about how unique and scenic Northern Pakistan is, especially Karimabad, but it just is.
It would be the perfect place to while a couple of weeks away in summer, autumn, or spring. Relaxing, hiking, reading, eating, whatever.
But when I visited, on the brink of Winter, it was just plain freezing.
No electricity (thus no hot water), no gas heaters, shops were shutting up for the season, no other tourist to talk shit with, in bed at 8.30 pm wishing the night would end already so I could get up and sit in the sunshine to eat breakfast.
Two nights was more than enough.
I do look forward to going back through on a happier occasion.
Other than its scenic ambiance and hiking, Karimabad is famous for one thing, Hunza Water.
Locally produced Wine, nicknamed "Hunza Water," is something of a mythical product. Everyone knows about it, but few ever see or taste it.
I still don't know how I pulled this off (and at the time, I wasn't even trying), but a friend-of-a-friend later, and I'm standing out the front of THE Mr. Hunza Water's Place.
Zero English and my ten words of Urdu all used up, communication was in body language, but he was stoked to have a visitor.
As I was given the tour of the 3×5 meter room, the first thing besides the smell of fermentation I noticed was the 'wine' set up.
Hunza Water is not Wine, and it's a spirit; the whole set-up is for distillation, haha.
The first-morning batch is ready (brewed from mulberries); Mr. Hunza Water wine sticks his thumb in, then gets lighter and lights it. The whole thing happened before I could take a photo, but I'm sitting there watching his thumb alight while he's smiling because it means the batch is strong.
I'm poured a take-home bottle, but not before taste tests are carried out (something I can see the assistants are eagerly awaiting).
Half a mug gets put in front of me. Keep it's about 10.30 am.
There's no declining hospitality in Pakistan, and thus I understand I'm not leaving until that mug is finished.
Not wanting to mill over it, I top-to-bottom the whole thing and Mr. Hunza Water wine seems impressed. I nod with approval while my digestive tract is on fire.
The 5-hour bus ride back home (Madina Guest House, Gilgit) squashed like a sardine and nursing that bottle upright the whole way; everyone was spiked when I pulled it out at the dinner table.
Its I good for health 200% healthy diet worry about clour it's made from the glacier, so that's why its clour was dusty, but it was purely beneficial the people of Hunza use this water in cooking drinking and everything that why they live almost 100+ age.
How To Make Hunza Water
- Sterilize the large glass container or pitcher, then fill it with filtered drinking water.
- Cover the container, and set it in a sunny window for 24 hours to increase the "chi" or life force. This step replicates the natural sunlight water would be exposed to while melting down the glaciers in the Hunza Valley.
- You are using large, rock-sized Himalayan salt crystals; place as many as you can in a mason jar. Remember, don't cover your pot with a metal lid as it can react with the salt; choose a wooden or plastic lid instead.
- Fill the jar with your solar water, pouring it over the salt crystals. Refill the "sun water" and set it back in the window. You will have your "saltwater" and your "sun water."
- Let the crystals sit in the water for another 24 hours.
- When "infused," this water is called sole; you'll remove about a teaspoon of sole a day and continue to top the jar with more water as long as you can still see the salt crystals. Make sure to use a non-metal teaspoon to remove the sole. Add a teaspoon to a full glass of sun water.
- Drink on an empty stomach in the morning and wait approximately 30 minutes before consuming any other food or beverage.
- Once the salt crystals in your sole are gone, you can start the process.
While travelling through the winding roads of Karakoram highways (once used to be called as "Silk Route" in ancient times) the more and more you cover the distance the more you will be getting nearer towards the land of peaks and finally reaching to this fairytale land surrounded by majestic snow capped mountains.
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