The most common and popular drinks in Indonesia

The most common and popular drinks in Indonesia is the tea and coffee. Indonesian households usually serve sweet tea and black coffee for guests. Since the colonial Dutch East Indies, plantation, especially in Java known as a producer of tea, coffee, and sugar. Since then the tea and hot coffee favored by the citizens of Indonesia. Black tea is a type of jasmine tea is most popular in Indonesia, but due to the increased awareness of health, green tea began to rage. Usually coffee or tea as a beverage served hot or warm, but ice cold sweet tea is also popular. Bottled tea is sweet jasmine tea drinks in bottles are popular in Indonesia, even compete with soft drinks like coca cola soda foreign countries and Fanta. Coffee milk is the Indonesian version of Café au lait.

Fruit juices are also very popular, among other orange juice, guava juice, mango juice, soursop juice, and avocado juice is usually served with sweetened condensed milk added white chocolate as a beverage or dessert.
Avocado juice with chocolate milk

Many popular drinks on ice and can be categorized as a dessert drink. Ice is popular among others, coconut ice, grass jelly ice, ice or ice cendol dawet, red bean ice, ice cantaloupe, seaweed and ice.

Sweet hot drinks can also be found, such as bajigur and bandrek are especially popular in West Java. This warm drink made from coconut milk and palm sugar with a mixture of other spices. Sekoteng (drinks warm milk with nuts, pieces of bread, and china girlfriend) can be found in West Java and Jakarta. Wedang ginger (ginger hot drinks) and wedang round (warm drinks with sweet potato balls), especially popular in Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java.

As a country with Muslim majority population, Indonesian Muslims are forbidden to drink alcohol. However, since ancient times tribes native to the islands of the archipelago have been familiar with alcoholic beverages. Based on the news from China, a kind of Javanese society Kuna drink palm wine is tapped from the so-called palm-wine. Now the popular wine in the region survive and tribal Batak, North Sumatra, most of whom are Christian. Batak traditional tavern called Lapo presents wine palm wine. In Solo, Central Java, ciu (local adaptation of Chinese wine) are also known. Brem (rice wine) bottles are also popular Bali in Bali. Indonesia is also developing a local beer brands such as Bir Bintang and anker beer.