The VodkaBy: Claudiu Petru

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the world.

Origins of Vodka

• Comes from Russia and Poland, Vodka spells in the following ways:

País Nombre o palabra

Russian eodka

Slovak and Czech Votka, vodka

Serbian and Croatian Vodka

Polish wódka

Spanish Vodka

Alcohol content of 37% and 50% of its volume.

Origenis of Vodka Vodka chemically understood as H2O + CH3-CH2OH, i.e.

water and ethanol, it's not used to induce flavors. They had to induce a brandy, a distillation imperfect flavor of a matter to came from. The ideal of the alchemists was completely isolate alcohol, even water. The vodka is pure alcohol (water and alcohol), but not absolute alcohol: alcohol without even only water. Absolute alcohol is expensive to obtain and we only managed to obtain it into the twentieth century.

Commercialization origins of what in West we name Vodka which is tasteless pure alcohol West call is linked to the Stolichnaya brand and became popular at the end of the Second World War. He initially issued as "white whiskey" and its slogan was "no taste or smell." It was very helpful for cocktails.

Russian names of vodka (vodka and in the Western sense) that give clues about mild flavor or product origin.Limonnaya means that it has lemon flavor, Krepkaya means strong, Moskovskaya, which comes from Moscow.

Elaboration process

Broth

preparation

•Converting the grains into flour, water is added and the mixture is made under pressure. During operation, the starch in the grains is converted into a mass of gel and then sugar which, under the effect of the yeast, is transformed into alcohol during fermentation. Fermentation takes about 40 hours.

Distillatio

n

•takes place in a continuous distillation system or system "pot still" in stills isolated (or a combination thereof) having from 2 to 5 stills; stills height (stainless steel parts of copper) is 20-40 meters in the case of large industrial productions. The common vodkas are distilled twice, or three at most (eg Smirnoff). On the upper level of the market are a distillation vodka 4 to 8 times.

Filtration

•vodka is then subjected to a filtering process, which aims to remove any impurities that may persist in the liquid. Filtration varies from one distillery to another, but the most common method is the use of organic carbon filters, usually birch or apple wood.

Dissolutio

n

•the final drink before the mixture contains 96% alcohol and is almost devoid of taste and smell other than its own ethanol.

Long drinks and Cocktails

Bloody Mary

Long drinks and Cocktails

The Green Dragon

Long drinks and Cocktails

Bloody Mary Cosmopolitan

Long drinks and Cocktails

Caipiroska

Screwdriver

• http://claudyobcn.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Drink-Fine-Vodka

• www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka

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