Vodka Rocks!
“I had two glasses of vodka.
That day, I decided that it was a good
friend.”
The word VODKA comes from the translation of water in
Russian: “Voda”.
The Polish used the term to refer to any white
distilled drink. Vodka predates every other spirit, although Russia and
Poland still argue about where it originated.
First appearing in the 700-800’s, vodka actually predates distillation,
although those early versions were nothing like what we drink today. The
first known distillery was located in Khylnovsk, Russia in 1174. At that time, it
seems like the spirit was mostly used for medical purposes. Hey! Just about any
medical problem could be solved with vodka!
Curiously, the first to
develop this distillate were monks, thanks to them, farmers of the
eighteenth century began to drink vodka and its use began to grow in
Russia. However, this drink did not begin to expand until 1917, during the
Russian Revolution, in which the population began to escape from the
country towards Europe, and what did they bring with them? Their
“Voda” or water.
During Prohibition in the US, many bartenders from the States found their
way to Europe, where vodka was making inroads and cocktails with vodka
were quite popular. But, it wasn’t until the Second World War, the
historical moment when Vodka reaches the hands of the everyday North
American.
“Na Zdorovie!” Or, in English, “Cheers!”
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Coded by Jen Kules