What is Vodka

Vodka

Vodka is a distilled alcoholic drink which is made by any type of grain and starchy food material like rye, wheat, potato, corn and grapes which contain starch and sugar. Vodka is the composition of water and ethanol, sometime added some flavor.  World popular tasteless neutral spirit Smirnoff made by corn.

Vodka is the main drink of Russia because they claimed that they invented this drink in 13 th century but in other side Persia claimed that they made this things in 11 th century. According to Russian word, vodka means water of life and this literal translation is little water. The homemade distilled vodka called Moonshine. Its alcoholic content is 40 %. Traditionally this is served neat with ice and other mixer, some time mixed some water.

PROCEDURE OF MAKING VODKA

First, grains are cooked and ground and mixed with the hot water. 

Mash is obtained. Malt or special enzymes are mixed to convert the starch to sugar.

Yeast is added for fermentation.

Then it is go for the distillation. Vodka develops at about 190 degree proof.

Distilled alcohol goes for the purification. High quality vodkas are also filtered through tanks containing charcoal.

Now the time of bottling, this purified spirit diluted with water to decrease the alcoholic strength. Vodka can be bottled in same day, when it is made.

TYPE OF VODKA

VODKAS OF WESTERN WORLD

• GILBEY’S –  It is mainly produced in North America. This is 100% grain neutral spirit. Very popular Smirnoff vodka produced under Gilbey’s.
• GORDON’S – It is low cost vodka, mainly available in bottle. This is available in outside Britain.
• KAMCHATKA- It is mainly produced in North America. Its taste is smooth and crisp.
• POPOV- It is mainly produced by grain, so its taste is smooth and fruity. This vodka is generally British drink.

VODKAS OF RUSSIA AND EASTERN WORLD 

• POLISH VODKA- Belvedere and Chopin are mainly polish vodka which is easily available in market. Off course, they also produced flavored vodka, like Zubrowka which is greenish in color and flavored with a type of grass.
• RUSSIAN VODKAS- This is traditionally made from grain. Some famous brand is Kamlin, Russakaya and Redyar etc.
• FINNISH VODKAS- This type of vodka mainly produced in Finland. Diesel, Mosses and Koskenkorva are the most popular band of Finnish vodka. 

Introduction of Beer

BEER

Beer is an alcoholic beverages, made by cereal mainly barley. Beer is making by process of brewing power. It has low alcoholic content i.e. 3 % to 8% and some Indian beer have 12 %. It is especially serve chilled.

Brewing materials are:

Malt: Barley is used for making beer because it is helpful to the yeast in breaking down the sugar.  Otherwise beer can be made of any cereals. The cereal goes through a process which converts it to malt.

HOP: This is one type of flower which other name is Homulus Lupulus.  It is used for brewing process which gives the beer characteristics flavour (bitter) and fine froth. There are several different kinds of hops suitable for the brewing of different beer. In India, it is produced in the Kashmir valley.

Sugar: Specially graded refined sugar is used which helps in fermentation and the production of alcohol.

Brewers yeast: Yeast is microscopic organism which act is catalysts during fermentation and converts sugar in alcohol and CO2. Two type of yeast is generally used for fermentation.

Sacharomyces Cerevisiae (Top fermenting yeast), for ordinary beer.

Sacharomyces Kurlsbergenesis (Bottom fermenting yeast), for lager beer.

Finning: It is clarifying agent, used during the storing of beers.  It attracts all the impurities /sediments to the bottom of the cask during storing.

Priming: It is a solution of sugar and hop added to some beers during storage. The function of the solution is to develop the condition of the beer by the remaining yeast reacting with the sugar to give off CO2 and alcohol in the cask. This is called second fermentation.

Brewing Water: Generally mineral water used for this process which help to develop the special characteristics of beer.

BREWING PROCESS

First, the barley is ripened, soaked and the spread on floor to germinate. After germination it is dried or roasted. The starch in the cereal changes to sugar. It is called malt.  The malted barley is crushed and called grist. The grist mixed with hot water. This mixture called mash. The extract is allowed to infuse. The extract is called roust.

Then the extract is drained to a containers called ‘copper’, hops and sugar is added. The liquid is then boiled to concentrate. The extract is strained off to remove hops. Cool to approximately 16 degree centigrade or 60 degree F. Then it is going for fermentation. Yeast is used and fermentation starts. The CO2 is given off and is colored to use in case of bottle beer. After 36 hours of fermentation the yeast is collected to resise. The beer is allowed to mature in oak cask or trunk finning are added to brightens the beer, the beer is allowed to settle. There racking is done. The beer is tasted for quality and consistency before being send out for trade. 

Defination Of Gin

GIN

Gin is a spirituous alcoholic beverage flavoured predominantly with the essential oil of juniper type berry and sometime other flavoring such as anise, caraway seeds and orangeica root.

The juniper belongs from the pine family, the best berries which are the sources of flowering. The chief sources are Italy, Australia, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Sweden. The berries contain an essential oil of highly aromatic character and of pronounced medical property.

Gin was the first made of Holland. The name gin come from the French word “Genievee” or Dutch word “Jenver” born meaning Juniper. It was for many years. “The poor rotation in the family of distilled liquors but it has at least come into its own mainly as ingredient of mixed drink. The flavour of good gin seems to blend almost with all other beverages.

White brandy, whisky and rum are natural spirit and their characteristics are imported to the spirits by the by product of the distillate.  Gin differs in the aspect, gin is rectified in such a process that it deals at least a dears of all the by products and yields a silent or natural spirit which infect is pure ethyl alcohol which is then flavoured, sweeten and bottled and sold. It don’t require any maturing.

Introduction of Coffee

Coffee

Coffee is the second popular brewed drink which serve hot and cold both. It is good for health because it is loaded with anti-oxidents and benificial nutrients.

There are many kinds of coffee. But those with the finest flavour come from the tree (Coffee Arabica) and the other main bean is (coffea Rebeska), it has a more natural flavour.

The flavour of coffee beans is equally determined by their supas and acid contents, which may vary according to condition in which the beans are grown and the degrees to which they are roasted.

Once they are hervested. The raw, green beans must be roasted to develop their flavour, aroma and colour. Brief washing gives bean a pale colour and release a mild flavour.

The amount of coffee to use depends on how strong the drinker wants his coffee and on how finely the beans are grounded.

COFFEE MAKING

Everybody appreciate good coffee but good coffee depends on various thing besides the actual making.

There are many different ways of making coffee. Filteration method is recognised as the best.

Sparking fresh water always be used for different method.

1. Pot Method.

2. Vaccum method

3. Percolator method

4. Drip Pot method.

For the pot method, ground coarse coffee should be use.

Fine but not pulverised for the vaccum method, medium for percolator and fine for drip pot method.

Irish  coffee is another variation of coffee. It consists primarily of coffee. Flavours with sugar and spirit.

THE WORLD OF COFFEE PRODUCERS:

• Brazil
• Columbia
• Costa Rica
• India
• Kenya
• Venezuela

              Besides these the following varieties are sometime served

1. Instant coffee: It is powdered and soluble extract from coffeebeans.
2. De-caffinated coffee: Caffain has been removed by solvants.
3. Espresso or Expresso: It is strong dark coffee made from beans rosted until they are almost black and ground to a powder.
4. Demitasse: It refers a strong black coffee served in small cups after dinner.
5. Cappuccino: This is the combination of equal parts of espresso and frothy steamed milk. Sometime topped with whipped cream and cinnamom.

SOME FAVOURITE SPIRIT AND LIQUOR COFFEE INCLUDE

1. Irish coffee: Irish whisky.

2. Carriebean coffee: Rum

3. Calypso Coffee: Tia Maria

4. Bala laiska Coffee: Vodka

5. Pighland Coffee: Scotch malt whisky

6. Monks Coffee: Benedictine

7. Cafe Napoleon: Cognac Brandy

8. Cioueho's Coffee: Tequila

Speciality Coffee: Liquor and spirit based coffees are now very popular