Getting To Know Pletok Beer, Betawi Alcoholless Beer

Illustration of typical Betawi pletok beer (Doc. LPPOM MUI)

YOGYAKARTA Many of us do not yet have pletok beer, one of Betawi's traditional drinks. Even though it is called beer, this drink does not contain alcohol, so it is often referred to as halal beer.

Platok beer is safe for children and adults. The ingredients consist of RIP which are often used to make herbal medicine. This drink is suitable to be enjoyed at night, or when the weather is cold, because it can warm the body.

Platok beer is a typical Betawi drink made of several spices, such as ginger, fragrant pandan leaves, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, capulaga, and lemongrass. So that attractive colors can be added to be cayenne wood, which will give a red color when brewed with hot water.

The formula for pletok beer can vary depending on each taste. The sweetener can use sugar, sugar, or brown sugar. In addition, the natural coloring can also use zinc for red and pandan for green.

Some pletok beer recipes also use a larger composition of ginger and contain capulaga salt which is varied in the manufacture of pletok beer warranty.

Quoted from the website of the Ministry of Culture, pletok beer has existed since the Dutch colonial era. Europeans who lived in Jakarta often drink beer in their spare time to warm up their bodies. Not wanting to lose, indigenous people also created their own drinks which functioned almost the same, but did not contain alcohol.rai and ginger were added to the ingredients so that the minman could warm the body during cold weather. In the past, this drink was packaged in a bamboo tube before being drunk.

Quoted from Antara, the pletok' frills embedded in this typical Betawi beer can come from two things.

First, the 'pletok' is thought to have come from the sound of beer ingredients when shaken in bamboo shavings with ice cubes. The second possibility is that the 'pletok' is taken from the sound of a bottle cap when it is opened.

However, according to the Directorate of Heritage and Diplomacy, the Directorate General of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, embedding the name 'Pletok' is based on three assumptions, including:

Platok beer is one of eight Betawi cultural icons in addition to ondel-ondel, coconut fireworks, Balang Gigi ornaments, Sadariah clothes, kebata kerenang, Betawi batik, and telor crust.

Platok beer is also a mandatory dish in big celebrations or events in Betawi. At least, there is no main celebration of Betawi color that offers this drink, namely sunatan, wedding, and death events.

That's the information about pletok beer. Hopefully the review above can make readers know more about pletok beer which is an icon of Betawi culture. To get other selected news updates, keep reading VOI.ID.