Rakija traditional alcoholic drink in Serbia

Ten years ago I visited Adelaide in Australia. I tasted there the most beautiful wine ever. They have really beautiful wines. In my native country Serbia the most famous alcoholic drink is so called rakija,it is kind of cider. It can be made from grapes , peach,plum,apples,pear or other fruits and every houshold has it. They sometimes use it as a medicine. From Greece I usually buy an alcoholic drink ouso.

Rakija or brandy,cider is a strong alcoholic beverage. It is obtained by single or double distillation of the mass obtained by alcoholic fermentation of fruit. After the first distillation, the so-called "Soft" brandy with a lower percentage of alcohol, and re-distillation of "soft" brandy resulted in "toast". Over time, the process of "roasting" brandy in Serbia has taken on the character of a tradition.

Here is a photo of bottle of plum rakija made by my grand father.

Wine is also popular in my country.

I found some interesting text about History of wine.

'Early in the development of agriculture men discovered howto make alcoholic drinks from grapes and corn. The ancientEgyptians drank both wine and beer, and the Greeks carried on a lively trade in wine throughout the Mediterranean. Grapevines are all of a single species although there are hundreds ofvarieties adapted to different soils and climates.Wine is the fermented juice of fresh grapes. The juice of the wine grape contains sugar, and growths ofyeast form on the outside of the grape skins. In wine-making, the grapes arecrushed in a wine press and the yeast converts the sugar to alcohol, when there isno air present, by a process called fermentation. Red wine is made from dark grapes, and white wine from white grapes or from dark grapes whose skins havebeen removed from the wine press at an early stage. The most famous winegrowingcountries are France, Germany and Italy. Wine was made in England in theMiddle Ages, but the climate is not really suitable for grapevines. Wines must bedrunk quickly once they are opened; otherwise, bacteria will use the air to convertthe alcohol to vinegar. The bacteria are killed by a higher alcohol content than isfound in wine and that is why sherry and port, the specialties of Spain and Portugalrespectively, are fortified by the addition of spirits to make them last longer.'

What alcoholic drinks are popular in your country?

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