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Vodka Wonder

By Super Admin

Vodka is one of the most popular spirits of modern days; the spirit that uplifts the spirits of many a liquor lovers. A compulsory item that any pub or liquor permitting areas would dare forsake; assuming the shape of the glasses clasped endearingly by those who seek revelry in drinks. It owes its origin to grain growing areas like Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and western Russia and not to omit Scandinavia and includes , molasses, soybeans and off course grapes apart from the grains like wheat, rye and sorghum that forms the main basis for its making.

Distillation and filtration the two significant processes involve in the modus operandi of Vodka making aids in the enhancement of clarity and taste. Vodka branches out into clear and flavored Vodka. Both are exposed to distillation and filtration .In accordance with the laws of Europe and the US, Vodkas are meant to be virgin sans taste, flavor, color and odour. Ethyl acetate and ethyl lactate, fusel oils and methanol retained from the distillate permit vodkas to a clean taste dismissing the lingering mouth feel and its characteristic taste. But however the traditional Vodka producing countries do not conform to this law as these Vodkas find expressions in home made recipes with its flavor & properties retained as a result of minimal distilling and filtering. These Vodkas are largely put to use for medicinal purposes. As a final step in prior to bottling the Vodka is diluted. Freeze distillation is adopted as an underhand method to conceal the alcohol content in countries where the levitation of tax merely depends upon the alcohol content in a drink.

Vodka delights a person who actively indulge in gustation to satisfy his sinful cravings in multiform varieties of flavors like lemon, orange, black current, cherry, apple, buffalo grass, red pepper, fruit flavors, chocolate sans a sweetener and cinnamon. The leaves of a local grass called the 'bison grass in the Polish 'zubrowka' and Belarus Ian zubrovka are active flavorings and the vodka named krupnik is flavored with honey. Fruits , herbs and spices contribute to an additional taste in the drinks that accounts to the fun and frolic in festivities especially in the midsummer in Nordic countries.

Vodka generally is to be consumed neat but for a tongue that would like to venture into many a variety of taste, vodka is relished in communion with cocktails like the Bloody mary, Screw driver, Vodka tonic, Vodka martin, Applentini, Black Russian, Bull shot, Caesar, Moscow mule and Cosmopolitan etc. Kryshtal Etalon of Belarus, Pearl vodka of Canada, Max, Orla, Polowa of Poland, Golden horde of Russia Absolut of Sweden Xellent Swiss vodka of Switzer land 3 vodka, Zodiac Vodka and Blue ice of The United States are some among the list of Vodkas.

So give vent to your Vodka cravings with a little knowledge about it!

Story first published: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 9:28 [IST]
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