Drops of Life | Community-Distilled Spirits from Palmyra Sugar, Sathing Phra Peninsula, Songkhla

Every morning on the Sathing Phra Peninsula in Songkhla, Thailand, farmers climb towering palmyra palms to collect sweet sap from the flower stalks, a way of life passed down for over a hundred years.

This documentary follows the wisdom of palmyra sugar, from using natural preservatives and simmering the sap into sugar to fermenting it into traditional palm wine, and its transformation into community-distilled spirits. It features Khun Ken, who turned local knowledge into a product.

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