What drink in Russia? Features of the Russian national drink. Meda, mead, and brose


Long before coffee and tea drinking in Russia these magnificent healing drinks. Slaboalkagolnye mead and little or soft sbiten were especially popular, and even for the reason that honey to the early twentieth century was much cheaper than sugar. Cooked and mead from birch juice, cranberries, raisins, lime blossom, cherry. Where does the name "honeymoon"? But from there: during the wedding and after the young were treated alcoholic mead another month. That said: "I was there, honey, beer drinking. By mustache flowed, but the mouth is not horrible. "

(We know what he is horrible! Situation - worse governor. And the governor called a stallion, who lit the filly for mating but then dragged him into the vestibule to cool, and summed the right to breed. Here in the whiskers will flow! "It was only neigh" tili-tili dough - the bride and groom? "to the governor's face did not lose).

Let us shall weld, honey or mead, and drink, so that not only his mustache dripping. The easiest way is brewed from honey: 6-7 liters of water add a kilogram of honey and a handful of hops (15-20 grams), and stirring, and boiling this case 2 hours. Foam will shoot to a complete transparency. Cool and add 45 grams of yeast, diluted in the same cushy fluid. Wrapped and put on two or three days to wander from time to time stirring the liquid and our reining it in cold water. Then strained it, pour into bottles and put in a cool place to ripen 2-4 months. The longer, the better - depends on taste.

Learn about the readiness of honey on the strength and taste of the drink. Who loves spices, can be immediately found with more hops and clove, cinnamon, lavrushechku, thyme, rosemary, cardamom, pepper, ginger. However, pure honey has natural fragrance source of honey, and you can get the aftertaste either lime blossom, or flower, or buckwheat.

And you do not want to wait 4 months? Want to just quickly honey foam?
You and faster. Then let's reduce the amount of water up to three liters, and will cook over low heat, too, for three hours. Then add 25-30 grams of hops, and another hour as a cook. What povykipelo, dolem boiling water. Cold, and in the form of heat strained through a couple of layers of gauze. Wrapped and marlechkoy'll cover - let wanders and hisses. And when the fizz almost stop, pour into bottles and wait three to five weeks of maturation drink. At the ripe honey, you can add 1 cup of strong tea. Strain several times our nectar, and cool. And now you can and drink sweet honey. Hail!

You can speed up ripening, if you add a piece of rye crackers. Can use a combination of honey with sugar, raisins, raspberries, with a cherry. There is no limit to your imagination. The main thing - transparency of the finished product, its effervescence and taste.

For the very impatient to accelerate the maturation drink by adding the yeast, divorced with a tablespoon of flour or without. But this is not a real honey, and mead. Mead is brewed very quickly: a liter of boiled water breeding 150 grams of honey, cooled to a temperature of 40-50 degrees, add 30 grams yeast (preferably soft than dry) and give to wander day. Strain, add citric acid or juice of half a lemon. Cools and drink mead. Our health! Mead is not subject to prolonged storage. So we'll have to drink up all. Once again, our health!

But mead, that's hot!
To my brose "
All eat it:
And the warrior and podyachy,
And the waiter, and the footman who
And all the honest people are.

Sbiten hot drink and podyachi! Sbiten-sbitenek drinks schegolek.

It has long been drunk in Russia. Especially Russian long cold winters. Sbiten very well warmed person from within, healing from ailing adults and children. Because mead is drunk hot. That went through the bazaars and fairs with sbitenschiki wrapped in blankets with copper barrels. What were named baklazhniki. And then the flasks flick of the wrist become samovars. So now we know dad samovar in his face. A near baklazhnikov Kalashniki swirled with hot rolls and gingerbread. Also its a pretty penny at brose had!

Sbiten - it will not just honey or molasses boiling water. It added, and cardamom, and cloves, and wine and brandy and cloves, and ginger, and Lavrushka, and tea, and nutmeg, and mint, and magnolia, and hops, and sugar. But the most important component, of course good old honey. Cook sbitenek? OK.

Let's start with simple: in the hot water per liter add 100 grams of honey, give cinnamon, cloves, mint and ginger to taste. Boiling in low boiling half an hour.

You can brew mead at fault. Per liter of dry red wine take 150 grams of honey. Add lemon, nutmeg and a couple of pinks studs. Bring to a boil and drink hot.

And you can dream up cognac: 750 grams of honey volem a liter of water, add a teaspoon of tea. Spices put what you like, do not forget about Lemon. Bring to a boil, let it brew for about 15 minutes under my pillow. Then drain and dolem 50 grams of cognac.

Especially healers Brewed Raspberry mead. A kilogram of honey diluted in a pint of raspberry juice with three liters water. Boil will 1-1,5 hours. Then cool to room temperature and add 50 grams of yeast. Leave overnight in a warm place. Sit there quietly! In the morning pour into bottles, corked and soak in a cool place 4 weeks. Who crimson brose? Sbiten hot drink and podyachi! That something is particularly good and therapeutic!

I just want to reiterate how to distinguish falsification of honey from the present. Drips on the palm, a drop of honey, hold on it in indelible ink. If the chemistry comes through, so the bees were fed sugar and honey is not real. And remind their regular pay, how to animate candied honey - put the jar in a saucepan with water and bring water to a boil. Keeping in boiling water until the honey again, not "melt". But for brose and honey-mead us Sgoda and candied. At sbiten swords of all that is in the oven! So what next - a truly Russian tasty and healthy drinks. Drink to your health! Well, I'm here with you with a barrel Pritula, can you?