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HISTORY

Waragi was created to give the soldiers confidence to go into battle during the war. A common fear of theirs was internal conflicts about fighting in the war. Waragi gave the soldiers what the English now name it, "Dutch Courage." Waragi was first made in 1965, yet prior to that the people of Uganda brewed another kind of liquor called Enguli. This drink brought abut the Enguli Act of 1965- Enguli production can only be done with legal licenses. And also those who had the license were required to sell it to the East African Distillers. When Enguli was received from local suppliers, over the years it was distilled to Waragi. It took 30 years of inconsistency of the drink to finally come to an end template of what is the Uganda Waragi today.

Its appearance first came about when British soldiers were first starting the create inroads into East Africa. They used brigades of Nubian Soldiers to help with the feat, and they concocted the alcohol to help keep up good spirits. It then spread throughout Uganda as a well known drink. The colonial authorities of Uganda banned the drink and the laws still exist today. Africans at the time would not drink it publicly because drinks that were less harmful to them were also off limits then.

People in Uganda now drink the harsh gin, and authorities overall ignore the law and do not enforce it regularly. It is sold in shops and bars across Uganda and a distilled version in sold overseas. Since it is double and sometimes triple distilled from the alcohol that village distillers make for a factory. When it is distilled, flavors are added and many impurities and dangerous parts of the alcohol are filtrated out.

WARAGI

It is commonly called Waragi in the central area of Uganda but in the West it is sometimes called "Kasese". In northern Uganda it is ore commonly called "Lira Lira". The manufacturing of Waragi does not vary too much in the different parts of Uganda - only the ingredients are slightly different.

http://www.commonlii.org/ug/other/UGJLOS/report/R5/5.pdf

Add this at the end of the second paragraph of the main heading of "Waragi":

Based on results from 2007, Ugandas overall alcohol consumption was an average of 17.6 liters per capita. This is unusually high compared to surrounding countries.