("mananggiti or for plural
manananggot"-bisaya term) before when he was stronger but he is old now
not strong enough making on this. If you drink too much tuba you will get drunk
because i remember my father sometimes he got drunk before.His day is not
complete without this tuba.Making tuba is a good job. It is his job to earn
money but not really much or it depends if you have a lot of coconut trees but
it' so tiring if it's a lot.
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Here is the process of making tuba.we cannot
have tuba without getting from its source. As i mentioned above,it's obviously
fro
m the coconut.The coconut gatherer extracts the tuba from the unopened and
young coconut bud that flowers into the fruit before it reaches its state of
maturity. So what tuba gatherer do is slicing the buds with the use of"
curve machete "( locally called saad)and try to figure out if the buds
produce a juice or a nectar on them.After slicing the buds they put a container-made
up of bamboo and tie -attached to the buds to fill it out .Tuba gatherer leaves
for a day then come back and try to find out if the buds can produce.So if he
find out that the coconut bud is good in producing, he can now make tuba on
it.What my brother do is he puts a bark of mangrove species "tungog"
or Rhizophora on the bamboo container .Sometimes he buys powder but usually he
buys the bark one because it tastes better. What he did is buy the bark one and
cut into finely- chopped with the use of machete or called
"sundang".Tuba gatherers usually wake up very early like 4 or 5 in
the morning . What they do in the morning is get the tuba that produced at
night then slice a little bit on the bud then put some tungog on the bamboo
container.after that they leave for a day then come back in late afternoon.they
come back and just slice a little bit on buds because the buds will stop
producing if they do not slice it. .so they will climb the coconut trees twice
a day.If you are first timer in making tuba sometimes it tastes like vinegar
but you will know better if you are patience to do it.
What tuba gatherers usually do is they wait
for couple days to sell to the market for better taste and it colored red
brown.My brother usually do is he waits one week then ready for the market.
Last year, 6 gallons worth like 250 pesos or so...If the tuba gets really old
it tastes best so people called it bahal or bahalina- local term.It is also
best to mix with coke.
This is how it looks like . The mouth of the
bamboo container covered with a piece of fibrous net of light brown stalks so
that no insects and rain on it.
What tuba gatherers usually do is they wait for
couple days to sell to the market for better taste and it colored red brown.My
brother usually do is he waits one week then ready for the market. Last year, 6
gallons worth like 250 pesos or so...If the tuba gets really old it tastes best
so people called it bahal or bahalina- local term.It is also best to mix with
coke.
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