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<h2 id="making-of-a-fenny">Making of a fenny</h2>
<p>First, handpicked, tree-ripened and fallen cashew apples are stomped, to gently extract the juices from the cashew apples, in a similar way as wine-making from the Grapes. Just like a brandy is distilled from Grapes wine, feni is distilled from cashew apples wine. In the first stripping run of the distillation process, a cashew apple wine is distilled into a light alcohol, Urrak.
It is the next distillation step, in which the master distiller for the village carefully controls the heat to allow the careful melange of water and alcohol to coax out the stronger second distillate (40-45%) spirit, <a href="/facts/Feni_(liquor)/XqyRrrg7">Feni (liquor)</a>, with less flavor but stronger odor and more alcohol in it. The flavors come entirely from the Cashew apple and the earthly pot where it took root, while the character stands testament to the time-honoured knowledge that has been refined down through Goa's generations.
</p><p>Traditionally, no flavours, colours, or aromas are added in to this final product, and it is consumed raw with a slice of lemon or green chili in another hand.
</p><p>Nowadays, young distillers of the region have adopted European methods of aging. As a result one can find fenny or Urrak, with flavours of Indian aromatic spices.
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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Summer is here in Goa and so is the season's urrak". The Siasat Daily. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021. <a href="https://www.siasat.com/summer-is-here-in-goa-and-so-is-the-seasons-urrak-2103924/" target="_blank">https://www.siasat.com/summer-is-here-in-goa-and-so-is-the-seasons-urrak-2103924/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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