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Chuak

traditional Tripuri rice-beer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5115198 ↗
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Chuak is the traditional Tripuri rice-beer, popular in Northeast India. It is made by fermenting rice in water. It is usually drunk on social occasions of any Tripuri ceremony as a ritual. Chuak is offered to village elders on any occasion or celebration in a traditional Tripuri family.

It is traditionally offered to guests and village elders during ceremonies and social gatherings among the Tripuri people.

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The public source identifies “Chuak” as traditional Tripuri rice-beer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chuak, traditional and Tripuri.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 66-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chuak, traditional and Tripuri providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chuak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.