Akpeteshie is a locally distilled spirit made from palm wine or sugar cane. Wikipedia, drawing on Akyeampong (2001), says distilling it was criminalised under colonial rule in the early 1930s, which drove production underground, and that the Anlo had earlier called a local spirit 'kpótomenui' ('something hidden in a coconut-mat fence'). The origin of the name is contested. One commonly cited account derives it from Ga, meaning roughly 'they are hiding', referring to clandestine distilling (Wikipedia), and Al Jazeera (2015) also says the name means 'in hiding'.
Akpeteshie was once produced in secret.