The disappearing trees

The Goan NetworkPublished Jul 18, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

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Year Registered Distillation Units Coconut Trees

2000 158 1836

2005 94 1135

2010 45 548

2011 43 492

2012 33 376

2013 28 321

2014 31 335

2015 29 303

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Coconut feni tapped out of Canacona’s bars

It was a part of Goan culture, especially in Canacona, where coconut feni was everyone’s favourite spirit, available in every bar and tavern in the taluka. But today, with just a few toddy tappers left to scale the long-winding palm trees thrice a day, and the emergence of industrial alcohol and spurious liquor, the future looks a bit bleak for coconut feni

Tony Martin

Published Jul 18, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

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Coconut feni tapped out of Canacona’s bars

Canacona: Goa’s celebrated indigenously made coconut feni (maad) is history or almost so. Now, make your pick. It could be anything from sugar feni and jaggery feni to the more deadly industrial alcohol ethanol feni or rectified spirit (RS) feni, Ammonium Chloride feni, Zinc Chloride feni etc. You may be a closeted coconut feni patron or the out in the open type but beware there is an exceptionally good chance that your coconut feni may not be feni at all, but rather…