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Visit to Kvass in Russia

editor — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:54:00 +0000

TURNING BREAD INTO BEER Ail unlikely resurgence in Russia’s bread-based, low-alcohol beer, Kvass, has seen the drink rapidly go from old-fashioned to new and fashionable. Kvass is made using stale bread, plus fruit and spices, and is around 0.5%-2.0% ABV, making it more of a lightly fermented soft drink. There are major commercial brands of kvass brewed in Russia, varying geographically depending on whether the area prefers a sour or sweeter flavor. Restaurants have also started making their own kvass, brewing it to suit the different foods served, and this small-scale production is changing the appreciation of one of Russia’s

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Russia

editor — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:41:00 +0000

Russia is really a nation of nations The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with a variety of ethnic cultures under the Soviet banner. Actually there are some 185 different racial groups: Ukranians, Greater Russians, Uzbeks, Tartars, Khazaks, Armenians, Georgians, Jews, Lithuanians, Moldavians, Turkomans, Kirghiz, and many minority groups. There are even two villages of Russian Negroes in the Caucasus Mountains. Is the Soviet Union in Europe or Asia? It’s in both. The low Urals mark the traditional division between Europe and Asiatic Russia. We must be careful to note that today Russia is technically but one, the biggest one to

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