Polish Vodka?

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Vodka has a reputation for making you impotent.

There is some truth in that statement I guess, but I'll attribute it to the fact that alcohol makes you impotent in large enough quatities. Unlike malt whisky, if you hit vodka hard it doesn't hit back, but the alcohol is there all the same.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Steve Toy:
It's a nice feeeling though, one eye shut, isn't it?

Indeed it is, because you still have one open enough to see the drink overflowing in the glass

Fred, I once tried some firewater in portugal when with the army, that was one episode best forgotten.
An interesting story on the subject of vodka, a guy I know had access to some cheap vodka, enough to say that! anyway, a bar manager he knows asked him how much he was selling it for, the guy replied £15 a bottle, the bar manager asked him to get him a box.
Anyhow, you can guess what is coming, he had a visit from the weights and measures people, he was only syphoning the cheap plonk into legit bottles and selling it as the dear stuff!
Hope you did not have too much of a hangover fred...

Finnish makes me fine and polished,
while fine Polish makes me finnished.
Or was it the other way round?

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Originally posted by Unnaimed:
Finnish makes me fine and polished,
while fine Polish makes me finnished.
Or was it the other way round?

Try another glass

Our Polish Aupair brought us back a bottle of Vodka from the homeland disguised as a Fire Extinguisher even though I dont really like Vodka I thought the packaging was cool
I´ll probably drink it one day

John

Another blast with another classic Polish Vodka - Zobrowka - this weekend. Two bottles, so expect a short, or even a permanent silence after ther weekend!

Fredrik

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Originally posted by Steve Toy:

[Sensible advice on moderation!].

Oh, and between each shot necked, eat something light like a canopé of biscuit, cheese, olives salami, onions, caviar, whatever.

Na Zdravoviev!

Dear Steve,

Pawel, purveyer of Zobrowka says that a good trick is a long glass of apple juice to be taken as necessary between the real stuff, which shall be policy this time. Actually I am not so worried about the really long term! Is there one? Herford is the allged home of apple juice though an awful lot comes here from France, because there is no way the Hereford Orchards could ever supply the biggest Cider makers in the world. Of cousre the best do use real local apples! There is a reason Bulmers are now a part of the commodity market rather than a really independent company!

Fredrik

Any kind of fruit juice is good as an in-between. When I was in Slovakia if you asked for a vodka with fruit juice they always turned up in separate glasses.

Dear Steve,

Isn't is odd, but the method looks entirely sane to me, and yet in UK we talk of taking more water with it, which in my view spoils a good malt!

Fredrik

Ahh, a thread that takes me back to the good old days of the forum. I wonder what Vuk is doing now...
John

Dear Friends,

The next classic Polish Vodka is still in the future, and the anticipation is building! But tonight I had two glasses of rather nice bottled Polish beer.

Firstly Tyskie and then Lech to follow.

A good session is planned for Friday after work, so I expect I shall be resting on Saturday (and Sunday}! [Low bandwidth smiley]

Fredrik

PS: Apparenty there was very funny advert for Tyskie in Poland not so long ago. I am not entirely sure it is PC though. I got it rather quickly. Tyskland is the Norwegian for Deutschland...

Dear Friends,

If you fancy a real treat and enjoy beer, try Tyskie. I actually bought four cans (in Worcester) on the way from work to try it again. Tremendous.

The icing on the cake is that it is 99 pence per can!

Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
How would you describe the taste of Polish Vodka?

It is some years since I had it, but in our late teenage years a friend and I discovered the -to us- exotic-sounding 'Sliwowicz', Polish plum vodka.

I remember it as being very, let us say, 'warming'.

I believe that sometimes it is added to tea to give it some pep.

James

On adding Polish Plum Vodka to tea...

I can just imagine! Have you ever had tea made with gin instead of water. The perfect 'hair of the dog!' Fredrik

PS: I must added, - reportedly and allegedly. I have yet to try it, but apparently it does work. At a slight tangent in Poland the best day at a weddinng is the second, where the guests are really those the groom wanted and is significantly finer than the first! How dull English weddinds seem to me!

It is precisely at a moment like this that I wish i knew where one could have bought a fine Polish vodka (or even a Finish one in fairness) in Uk!?

I guess that though it is cheap in its origen though more than fine in its outcome, it will be wickedly expensive inUK?

Fred

Found another splendid Polish beer though!

Okocim!

At the moment I think that I prefer Lech to Tyskie, and now I have found a source in glass rather than can, which is still incredibly cheap! I think Okocim is probably the tastiest of the three, so I shall keep experimenting!

Fredrik

frederik,

just found your thread.

the best polish vodka you can order in berlin (and we drink a lot of vodka here - believe me) is wyberova - just great!

try to avoid everything with grass in it - it just tastes awfully perfumed... (grasovka).

if the going get's tough (and the weird turns pro) a shot of stolichnya is always welcome (/though from russia). all the russians i know love stolichnya.

(the polish beer is pretty good too

all the best from :

+blackforest.

Dear Christian (blackforest), and other dear friends,

After some extensive home dem'ing I'll nail my colours to the mast (having not tried every bottled Polish beer, of course) and say that I preffer Lech to Okacim and Tyskie, all of which are nicer from glass than a can.

I have another bottle of Pan Tadieuzs [Vodka] coming next week, and have finally found a source of fine Polish Vodkas here in UK, so I shall be trying theses out over the coming weeks.

Poor Poland needs our help as much as anything else from buying their exports, and it seems to me that no harm can possibly come from trying out beverages that have sustained a Great Nation in times of considerable sadness - they will again become a vital part of Europe and the world I am sure, even if their government has taken a less pleasant turn lately. Not my view, but that of every Pole I have talked to about it.

Growing pains of democrasy (which Poland will ceratinly grasp effectively), but how can it ever be painless?

Fredrik

Sounds like suitable fun for a Saturday, with Sunday spent suffering before Monday work! Hehe!

Fredrik

On Thursday! Right!! I think I understand! Hehe! All the best from Fredrik

Dear Frank,

There may be a case for me emigrating to Poland I think!

Glad you managed to keep going!

I have another Pan Tadeusz coming my way on Monday (a sa gift which is mildly embarassing), but I think I can also find some Wyberowa, and Zywiec beer this weekend.

To be honest as a pleasnt cool drink without a wicked kick in its legs, Lech takes a lot of beating. Much nicer than the blamd, Anglocized things like 'Carlsberg, brewed in UK!'

Real English Ale is of course another story!

It is my aim to get my Polish collegues as enthusiastic over this as I am over their fine beers too.

Of course nothing is going to persuade them to like Scotch!

I must be early tonight. Much to do in the morning before work.

All the best from Fredrik

So Poland got beaten in their first Football Match in the World Cup. I wonder what will happen today to England?

Fredrik

Dear Frank,

Not with the garanteed acuracy of reuters, but I bellieve Poland lost 2:0, and England won 1:0.

The report of the England game, which I had, hardly indicated it was great footie...

I singularly failed to find any Polish Vodka in Hereford today. The place is a good fifty years behind, I can tell you, except that the thug element seems to have crept in very fast over the last years. I guess that is everywhere...

Not just sunny Hereford, but oppresively hot...

I am wilting. Fredrik

PS: Hereford will never have a Gay Pride Parade! In fact I think being a bit queer in Hereford never really caused any comment, which suggests that the place is not only old fashioned, but quite tolerant as a well. Essentially it is so out of date that the politics veer between Liberals and Conservative, just as if the 20th Century had never happpened. The Socialists always loose their deposit at elections...

Sounds like a plan! The contact gen is to be found in my profile.

It si too bloody hot, here. And we are not even half way through the summer.

My chip shop has announced a rise in prices, because of a potato shortage, which must be down to the lack of rain.

Mind you, chips are cheap anyway, but I think we may be on the way to a record breakingly hot summer, like 1976.

Fredrik

Dear Frank,

Rubenstein also recorded the Empereor Concerto that year! In the old days Radio Four's Kaleidescope used to run up to ten o'clock, and I was in the bath transfixed when they played several minutes into the first movement!

That was the summer I was first trusted to drive the combine harvester at home as a 14 year old. Thinking back that may not have been entirely legal, but never mind!

What was amazing was the rainy end to that summer. I simply started to rain and did not stop some time about mid September. My father was onto his third wife by then, and strangely she was only five years older than me. The household was not an especially happy one, though this coupling has nothing on my Norwegian mother who in 1993 or '94 married an Irano-Jordanian six year younger than me!

Fancy a Lutheran Norwegian marrying a confirmed Muslim! Neither party would be considered the architypal tolerant liberal. Knowing what she was like [I have only spoken to her once since 1997], I guess she does not walk a minor third behind or cover her face in public! That must be fun...

However a fine Pan Tadeusz will be mine tomorrow! So I return to topic!

All the best from Fred