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Culture and Society

Food and Drink

Rosharans enjoy a wide variety of alcoholic beverages. Most common are several varieties of wine, only a small subset of which are made of fermented fruit.^{[citation needed]} The beverages that fall under the term "wine" are categorized by strength and color, with different colors denoting different alcohol content.^{[citation needed]} While generally the wine colors are standardized, they gain their color by intentional colored infusions, and are occasionally made without them.^{[citation needed]} Vorin parties typically involve wine of the weakest colors, watered down to prevent the participants from getting drunk too quickly. Sapphire appears to be the strongest color imbibed casually, and the phrase "to be in one's violets" refers to a person being heavily, perhaps dangerously, drunk.^{[citation needed]}

Apart from wines, Roshar has a number of other alcoholic drinks. Among those is beer, of which the most popular variety appears to be mudbeer, often drunk to warm up. Another drink is a liquor called honu, which comes in several varieties that differ in strength. Both beer and honu are made from lavis grain. Beer and mudbeer are typical casual drinks, commonly served in taverns. Among Unkalaki, mudbeer is also used for duels--the winner is decided by who can drink the most without passing out. The Unkalaki people have a number of their own alcoholic beverages. This includes a brownish drink called shiki, which has to be chilled overnight, and the infamous Horneater lager, which is far stronger than regular beers, with one bartender claiming it melts their cups.^{[citation needed]} Strongest among the Horneater beverages is the Horneater White. A clear, distilled moonshine, it is the strongest known alcohol on Roshar (with the possible exception of some violet wines). It is know to strip paint, and can apparently be deadly to non-Unkalaki. Other, unspecified alcoholic beverages consumed across Roshar include a variety of ciders, juices, and lagers.