In Enugu state of Nigeria, the Nsukka people are well known for their Okpa food delicacy and Palm wine (called nkwu in Igbo). Nkwu-Enu (up-wine) and Ekpo, Ngoro, Àtan (down-wine) Palm wine, as noted in our earlier post, is a lucrative business product and there are handfuls of tappers that took tapping it as their occupation. Types of Palm Wine Produced in Igbo Eze North (Enugu-Ezike). There are basically two types of palm wine produced in Igbo Nsukka:Up-wine(called Nkwu-Enu in Igbo) and Down-wine(called Ekpo, nkwu-ani,etc in Igbo and Àtan in Benin Republic). Similarities and differences between up and down palm wine. The physical appearance of the two types of Palm Wine tapped in Enugu Ezike are the same. They are all white in color. Both of them contains alchohol. They also ferment beginning from the time they were produced. Despite the similarities, up-wine differs from down-wine. Just as their names imply, the up-wine is the type of Palm wine produced from the flower
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