e/Okolehao

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has gloss	eng: Okolehao is an alcoholic spirit whose main ingredient is the root of the Ti plant. Okolehao is also called oke by the native Hawaiians whose ancestors were the first to make it. Okolehao started out as a beer and when distillation techniques were introduced by the haoles (English seamen) it was distilled into a high proof spirit. The natives discovered that if you baked the ti root a sweet liquid migrated to the surface of the root. They did not know that chemically, the heat changed the starch in the root to a fermentable sugar. The baked root was then soaked in a vat of water which dissolved the sugar and fermentation began to take place. The resulting beer was drunk and the natives obtained a good buzz. The beer was later distilled into a high proof spirit which was prized by the...
lexicalization	eng: okolehao
instance of	(noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal liqueur, cordial