sentences:  Heavy consumption of tubâ and other alcoholic beverages in the Philippines were reported by early Spanish colonizers.Social drinking ("tagayan" or "inuman" in Tagalog and Visayan languages) was and continues to be an important aspect of Filipino social interactions.During the Spanish colonial period, distillation technologies were adopted by native Filipinos as early as 1574, resulting in the lambanóg (known previously in Philippine Spanish as vino de coco or vino de nipa), a palm liquor derived from tubâ.