by Elio — Al­co­holic bev­er­ages typ­ify hu­man so­ci­eties. Think of cham­pagne and the French, scotch and the Scot, and so on. In the West­ern re­gions of South Amer­ica, mainly Peru, Ecuador, and Colom­bia, the main ar­ti­sanal al­co­holic drink made by the na­tive peo­ple is called chicha.