Mauby

Mabi is also the name of an ethnic group in Cameroon.

Mauby (also mavi in Puerto Rico, or mabi) is a drink that is widely consumed in the Caribbean. It is made with sugar and the bark and/or fruit of certain species in the Colubrina genus including Colubrina elliptica (also called behuco indio) and Colubrina arborescens, a small tree native to the northern Caribbean and south Florida. Recipes usually include other spices as well, aniseed being very common. In some islands the drink is fermented using a portion of the previous batch, while in others it is consumed unfermented. Mauby is often bought as a pre-made syrup and then mixed with water (sparkling or still) to the consumer’s taste, but many still make it themselves at home. Its taste is initially sweet, somewhat like root beer, but changes rather startlingly to a prolonged but not astringent bitter aftertaste. To many it is an acquired taste.

There are two varieties of commercially available mauby: seybano and cacheo. Seybano is lighter in color and made from tree bark extract and white and brown sugar, while cacheo is darker and made from both bark and fruit extract, with spices and brown sugar. Both are made with carbonated water.[1]

Mauby Fizzz is a commercially produced and carbonated version of the drink produced in Trinidad and Tobago from mauby bark. It is unfermented. A similar version is also produced in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines called Hairoun Mauby.


References

  • Mauby, please! - Sheldon J. Yearwood, Trinidad Guardian
  • Mmmm… Mauby! description and general information, from slakethirst.com
  • Making Mauby a recipe for making mauby at home, from slakethirst.com
  • Mabi Taíno, a brand of mauby produced in the Dominican Republic

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