From its humble medieval origins as a medicine, vodka has conquered the world. In 2020, the worldwide sales of vodka earned around $45 billion, and the U.S. consumers consumed almost one billion liters of the potent alcoholic beverage.
What is the source of vodka?
If you want to make vodka, you must first ferment any foodstuff that contains sugar or starch, then distill it to increase its alcohol content. Feeding sugar to yeast will allow the yeast to make alcohol. According to Vodka: A Global History, vodka can be made from fermentable grains such as corn, rice, wheat, and sugar cane.
The product created from the fermentation step is too low for spirits. Upping that number requires heating a container known as a still. Alcohol can be collected separately from the water if the boiling temperature is lower than that of water. The American brand Everclear is a liqueur that has an alcohol percentage of 95 percent.
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Why is it used to preserve things?
The first records of a distilled vodka-like spirit come from an Islamic chemist named Jabir ibn Hayyan, who invented a distilling device to capture the vapor from heated wine for scientific purposes. According to the book, the monk Isidore adapted the Italian drink aqua vitae to make vodka in Russia by the 1430s century. The first vodka was likely bad and used for medical purposes.
voda became the preferred beverage of the Russian empire over the course of a few centuries after the distillers got better at their practice, according to the book.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the popularity ofvodka spread with Russian Soldiers. Pyotr Smirnov, a former serf, began selling something that looked like a clear beverage in the 1860s.
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