According to Chiu Chin-shih, the last historiographer of the Haucha tribe of the Rukai people, making wine was the responsibility of the women in traditional society. They would take millet and glutinous rice and boil it or pound it into a cake, add yeast, and put it in a container. After three to five days it would become white millet wine.
據魯凱族好茶部落的最後一位史官邱金士表示，在傳統社會裡，釀酒都由婦女負責，她們將小米、糯米蒸熟或樁打成糕之後，加入酒麴，放入桶或甕等容器裡，三、五天後即成乳白色的小米酒。