Far away from the luxury of Amed villas, Indonesia offers fascinating culinary tour on its provinces. Though this country is not recognized of its alcoholic drinks but it brings tasty experience of beverages into your tongue. Visiting Yogyakarta will bring you to the warmth of local beer. These local beers are not containing by alcohol though it named beer.
It called Java beer as it comes with bright yellow color and foam layer on its top. When you drink it, the freshness of any spices mix will fill your tongue and it invites warmth feeling on throat. Java beer gets ‘magical drink’ nickname then. It composed by secang wood, clove, cinnamon, ginger and mesoye. At first the beer colored red but when it poured by lime, it turned into fresh yellow drink.
Java beer then shook until it is foamy. Java beer is delicious whether it is hot or cold. You can find it in Bale Raos Restaurant that located nearby Keraton Jogjakarta. Another local beer also can find in Betawi. In Betawi the name is Pletok Beer as it served in Betawi restaurants like Huize Trivelli Restaurant in central Jakarta. Its soft taste makes its lover forgetting its raw materials. The raw materials are some spices such as clove, cinnamon, ginger, secang and Java sugar. Cold pletok beer served with vanilla ice cream. It comes with red color. Maintaining its original taste, pletok beer produced in limited edition.