Lao Wine Making Workshop

Brewing With Local Khmu farmers

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$21.00 per guest
1 - 8 guests 2 hours 09:00 12:00
+1
15:00
Hosted by Phengkeo Vanila
FREE Pick-up & Drop-off provided!

Highlights

  • Experience and try your hand at the process of making Lao Hai, the sticky rice wine of the Kamus
  • Bring a home a bottle of pre-made Lao Hai for your own consumption
  • Visit a local farmer's house and see authentic traditional life
  • Bring home a traditional bamboo straw used for drinking Lao Hai
  • Make your own fire and try using the traditional wind machine to control the fire

Inclusive of:

  • Entire experience and all tools and materials you need
  • English Speaking Facilitator
  • A bottle of Lao Hai
  • A special straw for drinking Lao Hai

Not Inclusive of:

  • Additional Drinks and Food
$US 21.00 per guest
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1 - 8 guests
2 hours
09:00 12:00
+1
15:00
Cancellation Policy: Moderate

Full refund available for cancellations made up to 48 hours prior to booking start time.

More About This Experience

Lao wine, or better known as 'Lao Hai', is a sweet rice wine produced by the Khmu hill-tribe for Pimai Lao (Lao New Year) and other festivals. It has a immensely smooth, naturally sweet flavour. It's sweetness and lingering aroma comes from fermented sticky rice, which is steamed before being mixed with crushed rice husk. It is then placed in traditional earthen jars known as 'hai', for 3-4 days before it can be drank. It can also be kept up to a year and generally the longer the mixture is left the sweeter the wine becomes. Traditionally, it's drunk communally (and often competitively) through thin, hollow river reeds. As the wine is drunk, water is added to maintain an even balance of water and alcohol. In this course, you will learn how to make it on your own, as well as start a fire and keep it burning with a traditional wind machine! Then try out a jar of it on your own before bringing home a little bottle for future consumption. Try making your own straw with the hollow river reeds too! There's good reason for it to be the happiest drink in Laos. Note: Bring your own bottled water

Additional Information:

  • Pick up will be via a tuktuk
  • Journey time from Luang Prabang hotels is around 15-25mins
  • There might be other people on the same experience
  • Bring your own water
  • Experience is at a local farm house

Cancellation Policy: Moderate

Full refund available for cancellations made up to 48 hours prior to booking start time.

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Free pick-up & drop-off is provided for this experience, enter your pickup location during check-out.

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Phengkeo Vanila

Coming from a family of farmers, Phengkeo has been making and drinking Lao hai since she was a little girl. Bringing happiness to entire villages is something that makes her very happy. She hopes that foreigners ca...

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US$ 21.00 2 hrs 09:00 12:00
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15:00
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