Source: Atlas Obscura
It’s known as mauby in Trinidad and Barbados, mavi in Puerto Rico, and mabi in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Across the Caribbean, you’ll find island dwellers drinking this bittersweet brew made with the bark of the Snakewood (Colubrina elliptica) tree. Tasters describe the bark as imparting top notes of root beer with an astringent aftertaste.
In the early 1900s,…
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