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Parakari

Cloudy fermented cassava beer brewed in Amerindian villages

Guyana Wine & spirit Vegetarian One for the adventurous

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Wapishana and Makushi brewers ferment baked cassava bread with a Rhizopus mould, the only documented New World use of a mould starter.

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What is Parakari?

Parakari is a wine & spirit from Guyana: cloudy fermented cassava beer brewed in Amerindian villages. Wapishana and Makushi brewers ferment baked cassava bread with a Rhizopus mould, the only documented New World use of a mould starter.

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cassava

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brewed

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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