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Asturian natural cider being poured from a plain green bottle into a small cider glass.

Sidra natural

Dry, lightly sparkling cider from Asturias in northern Spain, pressed from cider apples, fermented without added sugar, matured through the winter and poured from a height.

Principality of Asturias · Traditional method
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A small glass of still pale-amber mead, made from fermented diluted honey, with honeycomb softly out of focus behind it.

Mead

Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting diluted honey with yeast, then racking and ageing it. The honey, not refined sugar, is what makes it mead.

Traditional method
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A glass of golden sparkling Gueuze beside an unlabelled green bottle in a softly lit barrel cellar.

Gueuze

Belgian beer blended from young and mature spontaneously fermented lambics, then refermented in the bottle to natural carbonation. The recipe follows a 2,600-litre blend studied in 2024.

Brussels · Traditional method
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Illustrative pour of pale Belgian Trappist-style single ale in a plain glass; not a documented photo of this batch.
Elevated risk

Monk’s Ration Trappist-style single

A pale Belgian-style ale with Pilsner and aromatic malts, cane sugar and Saaz hops, fermented under loose foil before an airlock is fitted.

Loveland, Colorado · Modern method
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Clear pale-gold German pilsner in an unbranded glass with a white foam head, malt kernels and hop cones beside it.
Elevated risk

German pils, all-grain

A pale, dry lager with Pilsner malt, Magnum bittering hops and Hallertau Mittelfrüh and Tettnang additions, followed by cold maturation.

Modern method
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A clear glass of deep garnet-red Korean bokbunja-ju sits in front of an unlabelled dark glass bottle.

Bokbunja-ju

Korean black raspberry wine: crushed bokbunja berries with their seeds, sweetened to 20 °Brix, fermented 15 days at 25 °C with wine yeast, filtered and matured three months.

Gochang County · Traditional method
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Illustrative still life of pale golden sparkling pear perry, an unlabelled bottle and a pear in a flowering orchard; the bottle and fruit are not a specific producer's product.

Poiré de Domfront

Naturally sparkling perry from the Bas Domfrontais in Normandy, pressed from high-stem orchard pears with at least 40% Plant de Blanc and carbonated by fermentation in the bottle.

Bas Domfrontais / Passais · Traditional method
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Illustrative Georgian qvevri wine in a glass beside a clay serving jug in a marani with buried qvevri openings visible in the floor.

Qvevri wine

Georgian wine fermented and matured in buried clay vessels called qvevri, usually with grape skins, pips and sometimes stems, in styles from amber to red that differ by region.

Georgia · Traditional method
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An illustrative bottle and ceramic cup of clear honkaku shochu with a sweet potato and rice koji, following the documented sweet-potato route.

Honkaku shochu

Japanese pot-distilled spirit made by fermenting sweet potatoes, rice or barley with koji and yeast in two stages, then distilling the mash once so the ingredients' aroma survives.

Isa and the former Satsuma region · Traditional method
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A clear, still glass of pale straw-gold dry mead in a simple stemmed tasting glass.
Elevated risk

Traditional dry varietal mead

A still, dry honey wine fermented from varietal honey and water with a single wine yeast, carrying no residual sweetness and no added carbonation.

United States · Modern method
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