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Peru's beer-drinking ritual - Having a drink with friends is part of Peruvian culture - and there are very specific rules about the way that beer is shared.
In Cuzco, up in the Andes, I was taught to pour a splash of whatever I was drinking on the ground as a gift to Pachamama. Didn't know it was done in Lima too. Peruvian society, particularly in Lima, is quite stratified where the upper classes are families of European, primarily Spanish, descent, and the lower classes are indigenous families. (I assume this is true for South America is general.) We stayed with Natalie's family who, you would probably guess, were firmly in the rich/European bracket so we didn't sit around sharing beer out a single glass, as pleasant as that looks. We had cocktails, including Pisco sours which can be really rather devastatingly good.



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