Having decided to sit in the evening with your friends watching a football match, what would you prefer as a drink? Of course beer. And if you are going to a bar? There is a huge selection of alcoholic drinks: from shots of vodka to fancy cocktails with whipped cream. All these drinks are familiar to you, perhaps you even know their taste.
In our top we want to present 10 drinks, the existence of which you did not even guess!
10. Swedish vodka
The originality of the drink is inherent in its main ingredient - potatoes. Moreover, the taste of vodka will depend on the harvest year of the potato, and on the size of the vegetable and its variety. Let alone the potato itself, even if the climatic conditions in which the vegetable is grown influence the taste of vodka.
As a result, each batch of Swedish vodka is slightly different from the previous taste, and labels for each issue are printed depending on the source data.
Only the degree of an alcoholic drink does not change - 40. Standard for vodka.
9. Japanese beer
The Japanese are known for their ingenuity and dissimilarity to our usual norms and habits. Even the Japanese beer has a delicate and milky taste, and that's because they add milk to this hoppy drink.
Of course, they also have the beer we are used to - with barley flavor and brewer's yeast. And there is Bilk beer, which contains ordinary cow's milk. The fact is that in 2006 there were unusually high milk yields in the country, the supply exceeded demand, and milk disappeared in huge quantities. Then one employee of the liquor store came up with the idea of adding milk to beer. So the world famous drink “Bilk” arose, which is distinguished by a delicate and creamy aftertaste.
The strength of milk beer is even higher than some standard beer brands - 5 degrees.
8.27-degree beer
Beer called “Sam Adams Utopia Beer” was born in America when the Boston beer company brewers decided to take a leading position among manufacturers of strong beer. The first attempts and technological developments gave the world beer with a strength of 17 degrees, then the maximum number of degrees reached 21.
As a result, the brewers achieved a fortress of 27 degrees, in this issue beer is now for sale. It has the taste of strong port wine, and all because before sale the finished beer is aged for at least a year in oak barrels of port or strong cognac.
Beer is sold in a volume of 0.75 liters and costs about $ 150.
7. Beer flavored Margarita
The smallest brewery in America is known worldwide for the production of beer with unusual tastes. They made beer with hemp, coriander, garlic, and even Canadian maple syrup. It seemed impossible to surprise the consumer with new tastes, but the brewers introduced the world to Mama Mia Pizzabeer. Pizza beer!
The base of the drink is Margarita pizza. The finished dough with the filling is ground into crumbs, brewed in boiling water and the resulting infusion is boiled in an ale, and then beer pizza is born. Or pizza beer? All in all, pizza flavored beer!
The drink leaves a garlic aftertaste, and while exotic lovers drink beer, they taste the flavors of oregano, basil and tomato.
The cost of one bottle of beer is only $ 2.5, and the fortress is 4.6 degrees.
6. Spruce beer
Beer is produced in New Zealand, however, for the first time spruce beer was brewed not in this country. The drink was popular back in the 18-19 centuries among sailors, as spruce beer acted as a prevention of vitamin deficiency.
But now the drink is made at the only brewery in New Zealand. Beer has a pleasant coniferous aroma and has a smack of tea.
The strength of the drink is 5 degrees, and it costs about $ 6 per bottle.
5. Chicha
A drink revived in Latin America. Why reborn? The fact is that chicha is a fairly ancient type of alcohol, and it was obtained in a very unusual way: by chewing yellow maize. Maize, under the influence of human saliva, secreted maltose, then the chewed mass was poured with water and left to ferment.
In the modern world, the production of a drink is considered unhygienic, so the mass production of chichi was closed. Only recently, American brewers found volunteers for chewing Peruvian corn and prepared chicha according to an old recipe.
Chichi fortress reaches 50 degrees, and the cost of the drink depends on the number of degrees.
4. Millet Tongba
The basis of the tongba is wheat porridge, which is boiled and left to ferment. Then herbs are added to the porridge and the resulting mass is dried up to six months. Tumble the dried mass into special wooden mugs, pour boiling water and alcohol can already be consumed through the tube.
Boiling water in the cooked mass can be added up to six times. The drink has a bread flavor, sometimes ginger is added to it for spice.
The strength of the drink is about 6-8 degrees, and the cost of a tongba is only 20 cents.
3. Pulke
Pulque is a Mexican drink; for the Mexican people, it is a local favorite. It is impossible to store the drink for a long time, and therefore beer over time has eradicated the mass production of pulque. Now the drink is popular only in the territory of the manufacturer, and Europeans did not like sour and astringent taste of pulque.
The strength of the drink varies from 5 to 8 degrees, and the cost per bottle is about 60 cents.
2. Jandia
The production of the drink in the Indian tribes is reserved only for women, and the process of creating the handia is very laborious and painstaking. First, the necessary herbs are collected, then the herbs are dried, ground and mixed with ground rice into flour. After they form the mass into small balls and again dry in the sun.
Check the correct preparation of the mass by burning: if the sun-dried balls are burned without a trace in the fire, then the basis for the future drink turned out to be correct.
The mass is mixed with rice, porridge is boiled and left to roam in the sun. The resulting cloudy liquid is jandia.
The strength of the Indian drink is about 8-10 degrees, and the price is only 10 cents.
1. Wine with mice
Yes, with real mice.
Such an exotic drink is made in Vietnam and is considered a cure for most diseases. Among men, it is known that the drink has the effects of Viagra and is able to return potency.
Producers take rice wine and add live newborn mice into it, whose bodies have not yet been covered with wool. Drink with mice insist for about a week, and then it is ready to drink.
The strength of the wine reaches 57 degrees, and the cost of a miracle drink depends on the country of manufacture and the quality of the drink.