Sarawak Tuak (Rice Wine)

The Iban version of fermented rice wine, tuak, is central to social life in Sarawak's longhouse communities — produced by individual families using secret recipes that may involve different fermentation times, yeasts, and rice varieties, creating products that range from sweet and low-alcohol to complex and warming. Visitors to Iban longhouses who decline tuak miss one of Sarawak's most genuine cultural experiences.