My top three faves:
Beer:
1. Cobra (Indian- best to have on a nice, sunny, warm day sitting on a beachside shack in Goa, Kerala or Tamil Nadu with some sea-food, chicken or pork racks)
2. King's (Indian- This is another, absoloute beachside bier.)
3. Pelforth (French- if you've never tried this, you've missed out on the best dark beer that was ever made.)
Hard alcohol-
Rum
1. Vizcaya VXOP (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico and the United States; also sold in India- excellent aged rum, bottled and packed at 40% alcohol by volume.)
2. Malabaricus XXX (Kerala rum- bottled and sold in Kerala and in other parts of the Indian Union- excellent spiced rum, drunk neat.)
3. Khukri (Nepal- this is an interesting Nepalese rum, the pleasure of which I had a Nepali associate give me a few years ago.)
Other:
1. Rakija Slivovitza (Serbian peach /plum brandy) (92% alcohol - woot woot!)
2. Bochka "KvaS" (Russian Rye- a traditional mother's beverage, made from bread-based ingredients and fermented in a barrel. Great soda, to be eaten with a salad or chicken or fish)
3. Absolut! (Who can best Absolut!; now India's largest selling imported-Vodka.)
I've been dying to try this:
It's India's own single-malt whiskey. And it's had rave reviews on sites like Master of Malt: