Kitty said: Yes.Who invented vodka?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Who invented vodka?),it will help you,my kids.
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The origins of vodka (and of its name) cannot be traced definitively, but it is believed to have originated in the grain-growing region that now embraces Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. It also has a long tradition in Scandinavia.
Little is known about the early history of the drink in Europe. The first written record of vodka in Poland dates from 1405 in the Sandomierz Court Registry. In Russia, the first written usage of the word vodka in an official document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Catherine I of June 8, 1751 that regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.
Another possible origin of the word can be found in the Novgorod chronicle in records dated 1533, where the term "vodka" is used in the context of herbal alcoholic tinctures. A number of pharmaceutical lists contain the terms "vodka of bread wine" (водка хлебного вина) and "vodka in half of bread wine" (водка вполу хлебного вина). As alcohol had long been used as a basis for medicines, this implies that the term vodka is a noun derived from the verb "vodit,'" "razvodit'" ("водить", "разводить"), "to dilute with water." Hence "vodka of bread wine" would be a water dilution of a distilled spirit .
While the word could be found in manuscripts and in lubok (лубок, pictures with text explaining the plot, a Russian predecessor of the comic), it began to appear in Russian dictionaries in the mid-19th century.
Vodka is now one of the world's most popular spirits. It was rarely drunk outside Europe before the 1950s, but its popularity spread to the New World by way of post-war France. (Pablo Picasso once defined the most notable features of post-war France as "Brigitte Bardot, modern jazz, Polish vodka.") By 1975 vodka sales in the United States overtook those of bourbon whiskey, previously the most popular hard liquor. In the second half of the 20th century, vodka owed its popularity in part to its reputation as an alcoholic beverage that "leaves you breathless," as one ad put it — no smell of liquor remaining detectable on the breath.
According to The Penguin Book of Spirits and Liqueurs, "Its low level of fusel oils and congenerics — impurities that flavor spirits but that can contribute to the after-effects of heavy consumption — led to its being considered among the 'safer' spirits, though not in terms of its powers of intoxication, which, depending on strength, may be considerable." (Pamela Vandyke Price, [Harmondsworth & New York: Penguin Books, 1980], pp. 196ff.)
Interestingly, other peoples in the area of vodka's probable origin have names for vodka with roots meaning "to burn": (Polish: gorza?ka; Ukrainian: гор?лка, horilka; Belarusian: гарэлка, harelka; Lithuanian: degtin?).
The second half of the 1970s witnessed two massive attacks on the priority and rights of the Soviet Union to market liquors named "vodka". The first assault was along the lines that the Russian Revolution "discontinued" Russia's trademark for vodka, which was "naturally" transferred to emigrated manufacturers of vodka, Smirnoff in particular, because of prohibition by Soviets, so that officially the Soviet Union started manufacturing vodka in 1923. This was refuted fairly easily. The second assault, around 1977, by Poland, was more serious, and the Soviet Union undertook the historical research to substantiate Russia's priority, which was completed by 1979, and in 1982 the international arbitrage considered it convincing enough to grant the USSR the priority in vodka as Russian original alcoholic beverage and recognised the Soviet trademark motto "Only vodka from Russia is genuine Russian vodka". The author of the research published his findings under the alias William Pokhlebkin in the book A History of Vodka (see references below). Despite the clear bias of the exposition in the book towards the goal (to prove the Russian priority), it is a serious, substantiated research and reveals quite a few facts, as well as debunks a number of myths, on the origins of vodka, both as product and as name.
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RUSSIAN!!!!!!!! Vodka is synonymous with a Slavic word meaning water. The history of Vodka is ancient, dating back to medieval times, when the alchemists held the secrets of distillation. It was probably popularized in Eastern Europe, Poland or Russia, being the best bets. Gradual improvements to the process of distillation developed and in 1771, the Liebig condenser was invented by German chemist Christian Ehrenfried Weigel. This is very close to the condensing process of today.
Vodka is made from neutral spirits, (which are distilled spirits produced from any material at or above 190° proof). Usually it is distilled from grain or potatoes. The end result is ethanol. It is then charcoal filtered, rectified or distilled again to ensure all congeners and taste is removed. In the United States, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' law states that "Vodka is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color." The exception to this law is flavored Vodkas.
Vodka made its way to America when Vladimir Smirnoff sold the American rights to his family's vodka formula to a Rudolph Kunett, an immigrant in the 1930's. It had practically no popularity until 1946, when a bartender at the **** 'n Bull in California mixed Vodka with ginger beer to create the first Moscow Mule.
Vodka is not always clear, nor is it flavorless. Most western Vodkas are generally tasteless and more suited for mixing cocktails. The Eastern European Vodkas have a tradition of adding subtle distinguishing flavors ranging from herbs to peppers. They even have different customs for drinking Vodka. Paul Harrington of the Alchemist does not particularly care for Vodka, and confesses his prejudices. Yes, it is true that in a mixed drink, it is very difficult to taste the difference in Vodkas. However you can tell the difference the following morning. The superior Vodkas are filtered many times and some, Ketel One for example, is only bottled from the middle of the batch. But, if you drink enough of anything, a hangover will result!
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