I've just been writing about what will likely remain the oddest alcy beverage of the year, despite only drinking it on 2nd January. Tongba (or Tongpa sometimes) is a millet "beer" from Eastern Nepal. Millet is fermented and the grains are put into a pot, then boiled water is added. After steeping like tea for five minutes a strangely pleasant liquid of just about 2% alcohol is produced. The container can be topped up three or four times. You drink it via a crimped metal straw (so that you don't imbibe the grains)
The adventure is not so much one in alcoholic inebriation, but whatever else is going on in your head (the ferment is brought about by a mixture of yeasts and bacteria). Not exactly hallucinogenic, but it does make you feel a bit odd. Like floating down a meandering river or wallowing on a puffy cloud. It engenders a desire, no, more an acute need, to assume the prone position. It has been described as potentially treacherous. Well worth seeking out if you are in Nepal...and I've another helping left so don't despair...