A small village in Karangasem, Bali, really producing wine from salak. The village of Sibetan is one of the villages in the world that produces wine from salak. The village lies in Karangasem Regency and has a long historie for growing salak. Since a few years, people in this village make also salak wine.
Tourists who come to the village are able to see the process of making salak wine. Precisely in Banjar Dukuh, the salak wine brewery is open for visitors who want to know the process of processing the salak to becomes wine.
First of all salak, already peeled and in slices, are placed into barrels together with yeast, granulated sugar, and mineral water. The process of fermentation takes two weeks. After that, the content inside the barrel is filtered to produce liquid only. Then, the liquid is placed into aging barrels for six months. Every month the wine is filtered again. Then they can start the process of filling the bottles with wine. After being sealed and labeled, plus customs seal, the salak wine is ready to be sold.