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Okolehao is an alcoholic spirit whose main ingredient is the root of the Ti plant. Okolehao is also called 'oke' by the Native Hawaiians whose ancestors were the first to make it prior to contact with western explorers, missionaries, and seamen. Okolehao started out as a beer and when distillation techniques were introduced by English seamen, it was distilled into a high proof spirit. Hawaiians discovered that if you baked the ti root a sweet liquid migrated to the surface of the root. They did not know that chemically, the heat changed the starch in the root to a fermentable sugar. The baked root was then soaked in a vat of water which dissolved the sugar and fermentation began to take place. The resulting beer was drunk and delivered a good buzz. The beer was later distilled into a high proof spirit which was prized by the king.