Cheers! Welcome to the Nepalese village where everybody knows how to distill

Cheers! Welcome to the Nepalese village where everybody knows how to distill

Distilling is a way of life in in Nubri, Nepal. Geoff Childs, CC BYImagine a place where every home has paraphernalia for distilling spirits, where there is a toast for nearly any occasion, and where your taxes – paid in grain, not cash – are deposited straight into a communal still. Welcome to Nubri. A valley in northern Nepal, Nubri is home to roughly 3,000 Tibetan Buddhist highlanders. Over the course of three decades, I have spent a lot of t…