We stopped for a break by a house between Ladyville and Monkey Bay. There was a young man buzzing around in the garden. Our cell-phone (which we use to take pictures nowadays) was almost depleted, we asked for help. The young man kindly took the phone and put it on charge, then came back to have a chat with us. It turned out that they have a winery, they make wine from blackberry. It's called blackberry but it's something like a mulberry, it's the fruit of a tree. So it's probably mulberry wine.
Thanks to Cody and the Red Hummingbird Farm & Winery, we had a chance to try this dark, sweet and thick drink (with some 14% V/V alcohol). We enjoyed it pretty much, it was rich and a good spirit-raiser.
While speaking about booze: One of the most popular drinks around the Caribbean is sugarcane brandy, that is: rum. Good rum is expensive. But fresh brandy, of lower quality and without aging is cheap. Sugarcane is one of Belize's most important crop, refined sugar is their primary export.
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