Home-brewing is illegal in Sri Lanka. Police have vowed to prosecute anyone who promotes it
“DATES, JAGGERY?” asked the grocer, offering the main ingredients for brewing palm wine. His customer bought both, tucking them away with his onions and lentils before disappearing down a narrow lane in a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital.
Since then, booze has been hard to get hold of. Supermarkets remain open, but few have a licence to sell alcohol. For a time, enterprising distributors arranged home deliveries, until the authorities made it clear that these were also banned. A black market sprang up, but sellers were hard to find and prices prohibitive. Bottles of “gal”, which is distilled from coconut-palm sap, were selling for almost three times its normal price of about 1,850 rupees .
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