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Photo: Flickr user Mr. T in DC

Created by: Anonymous

Edited by: SoCal Pastry Chef, Desiree Lowe, Alisa Escanlar, Emily, Colin Saunders

Translations: 伏特加 (Chinese), ウォッカ (Japanese), الفودكا (Arabic), वोदका (Hindi), Водки (Russian) All Translations

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A clear, colorless spirit that can be made from a variety of grains and plants which include beets, molasses, potatoes, and grains. Vodka is made in a similar fashion to whiskey, by fermenting and then distilling the simple sugars from grain or vegetal mash in a pot or column still.

Vodka is generally tasteless and difficult to detect in drinks. It is used to fortify other beverages and is easily blended. There are types of flavored vodkas that originate from Russia and Poland - they include Kubanskaya, Limonnaya, Okhotnichya, Pertsovka and Zubrovka.

Vodka is produced many regions around the world which include, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Russia, Sweden, the United States and Australia. Different regions use different ingredients to make vodka.

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Vodka (, ) is a distilled liquor. Vodka is composed solely of water and ethyl alcohol with possible traces of impurities and flavorings. Vodka is made from a fermented substance of either grain, rye, wheat, potatoes, or sugar beet molasses. Vodka’s alcoholic content usually ranges between 35 to 50 per cent by volume; the standard Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish vodkas are 40 per cent alcohol by volume (80 proof). Historically, this alcoholic-proof standard derives from the Russian vodka quality standards established by Tsar Alexander III in 1894.from research by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev The Muscovite Vodka Museum reports that chemist Dmitri Mendeleev determined the ideal alcohol content as 38 per cent; however because in that time distilled spirits were taxed per their alcoholic strength, that percentage was rounded upwards to 40 per cent for simplified taxation calculations. For such a liquor to be denominated “vodka,” governments establish a minimal alcoholic proof; the European Union established 37.5 percent alcohol by volume as the minimal proof for European vodka.Gin and Vodka Association, http://www.ginvodka.org/history/vodkaproduction.html Although vodka is traditionally drunk neat in the vodka belt — Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries — its popularity, elsewhere, derives from its neutral spirit usefulness in cocktails and mixed drinks, such as the bloody Mary, the screwdriver, the White Russian, the vodka tonic, and the vodka martini.

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