Inka Alcoholic Drink (Chicha de Jora)

The Chicha de Jora is an alcoholic drink prepared from dry and germinated yellow corn, inherited from the Inca culture.

Preparation

The liquid is in the ceramic tanks with sugar cane and fermented for 5 days, at the end of the process this drink has between 4% and 5% of alcohol level, it is also very nutritious and energizing. For more information, see the section on weight consumption, help to combat fatigue.

Jora chicha is also consumed in countries like Bolivia and Ecuador. It presents several varieties according to the region but its preparation is mainly composed of “Jora”, that is, germinated corn.

Properties of Chicha de Jora

• Lose weight: A girl’s glass every day is a drink that should not be missed by people who want to lose weight, even in their diet to lose weight.
• Kidney and gall stones: Drink from time to time girl of jora helps to prevent the formation of stones.
• Fatigue: The moderate consumption of girl helps to energize the body to avoid daily exhaustion.
• Heart: it is a good energizer that at the same time takes care of your heart.
• Diabetes: A girl’s glass can be a good drink for diabetics, the preparation prepared with non-industrialized sugar honey.
• Influenza: The habitual consumption elevates the defenses to avoid the masculine breathing.
• Hypertension: It helps the elimination of fluids and the decrease of high blood pressure.
• Prostatitis: Its consumption contains enzymes and zinc, these elements prevent one from suffering from this disease.
• Kidneys: constitution of one of the most important natural resources to increase diuresis or elimination of body fluids, stimulates the kidneys and the need to urinate very important in a set of bodily anomalies.
• Bladder: Increasing urination can help to expel the microorganisms that cause inflammation in the bladder.

Do you want to consume this ancestral drink of the Incas?

If you traveled with the Inca Trail You can ask our travel advisors to taste this millenary drink.

In the following tours, you can request this drink, City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, South Valley Cusco