There was a lot of beer-related posting recently. In response I sad that I prefer variety of liquor's colors. So I'd like to write here about the liquors errhhh I mean alcohols that are related to weddings.
Firs of all the champagne required for toast. The champagne flute is obligatory here to underline that this wine is really sparkling ;-)
I've never heard about beer served on a wedding reception. Did you?
I've never seen any open-bar at polish wedding too. However I think I would find that very pleasant... What do you think about that? Or maybe you would like a alcohol-free type of wedding?
Of course in Poland vodka takes the major place on all weddings. I personally don't know how people can find any difference in taste of our polish vodka brands. For me all of those brands are terrible inventions of post-PRL age without any roots in our tradition and good taste. I'd love Poland to have an traditional well known tasty alcohol like anise-flavored spirits, whiskey, or brandy.
I received a gift on my wedding --- a bottle of 12-year old Metaxa from Greece. It's a very intence tasty and strong alcohol made mainly from grape. Grape grown on sun, than are picked, some of them are magically transformed into muscat wine added to the mixture, other are used sun-dryed, everything is distillated and transformed into liquor, mixed together with many ingredient that are keept in secret and left for years in oak barrels. Real passion is needed to make something like that. And the final taste is incredible. I really wish that poland had some special alcohol like that...maybe made from apples?! We had apple wine in the far past... It's such a petty that we lost our tradition in years of wars and occupation...
What do you think about it?
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Do you always think that walking in someone else's shoes is better? Whisky taste like old slipper in my opinion. And polish traditional alcolol.. hmm.. how about mead (honey to drink)? Do you taste it? I think that it's traditional and taste good.
ReplyDeleteAnd in polish weedings there are now something like fashion to "Country table" where except of lard and home baked bread is something like "Bimber"! Home made vodka, it's also traditional and kick with double impact :D
We have a lot good alcohol really. Try out the "Żołądkowa Gorzka", no matter if you choose original one or pure, they are great. I find it at the same level as Beherovka. And what about "Soplica Wiśniowa", It's polish, and it's great. Polish Wyborowa, Chopin are world famous and really good quality. From all things, alcohol making is one, in which we, as a nation, are good. Shame that we don't have any reasonable motor industry (even our southern neighbours have Skoda)
ReplyDeleteThe tradition called "Country table" about which said raspi0(s3635) is great idea. 2 years ago when I was in such weeding with this "Country Table" the food from there was sometimes better than form my table ;).
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to alcohol i prefer polish and traditional but it is in good taste to try something else.
I've also seen special wedding vodka with label called for example: "Wódka weselka Stefana i Ani" ;) it is great idea to have own vodka on the wedding.
I've heard that few alkohol companies will try to put on market tradicional polish knight tincture made from very various fruits, herbs and other ingrediends.
ReplyDeleteFor now in my opinion the best polish vodka is Chopin and Belweder but those are expensive ones.
The best known polish vodka all over the world is of course Wyborowa.
I found this alcohol on every continent:D
When I was on wedding (and I was on many:) ) there was an open bar, which I think is very good idea. You can choose and drink what you want, you don't have to drink only vodka - everyone is happy and you don't drink too much, what is surprising :). But as you all, I think we should have something, which is known in whole world - some extra alcohol, that we can be proud of, and not only our vodka, which we can drink all the time :)
ReplyDeleteAnd when we talk about beer - you are to sleepy when you drink beer, so there wasn't be fun at the wedding :)
I can't agree with p0rn0. That post-PRL vodka, what you called, is actually historical. Zubrowka, Zoladkowa they're polish and very popular even in Japan. And I hope I don't have to mention polish mead.
ReplyDeleteJust because it's not greek Metaxa doesn't mean it isn't good.
I was at the polish wedding with open bar and it was great idea - I hate any bottles on table.
When it comes to taste..there is a problem. everyone has his one one. Lately I had the occasion to take part in a vodka test for my own wedding. Not knowing which is which I had to decide which one's the best. Maybe the one that everyoby said that was great (wyborowa) or maybe good old (finlandia) or maybe the one that my father promoted (white lady)? Being sceptical about the "white lady" we started the test. My fiancé has brought us some glasses with vodka. We didn't knew what was in each glass.
ReplyDeleteAfter several rounds of testing our conclusions were:
-the most known vodkas are not usually so good as their opinion ("Zoladkowa czysta de luxe", "Finlandia"..)
-some taste like brake fluid ("Sobieski", "Wyborowa", "Luksusowa")
-not so known vodkas work well with taste, and the feeling on the day after ("Biala Dama")
-some well known vodkas aren't really what it looks like..simply faked? ("Absolut", "
Smirnoff")
-after several rounds all of them are beginning to have the same taste. The fact: it was I that loosed the taste :-)
An experienced man like my father who drank some oceans of all sorts of alcohol around the world was right.
Pros for the "Biala Dama":
+looks nice on the table
+taste nice, no brake fluid, You could even say it's mild
+it's relatively cheap comparing to "Finlandia" and "Absolut"
Cons:
-it doesn't smell to good :-)
Beer isn't great for a wedding, I think it's better on the day after.
Wine and whiskey are also ok. Don't bother with a bar-coctail table. The guests are not on a disco party to drink long drinks :-)
We have a sort of alcohol that is known and good and Poland is famous for.
Have You ever tried "Vodka Orkisz" for example?
"Soplica Wisniowa" is great.
"Country table" is also great.
Honey is more traditional in Lithuania.
For example, their "Sutkinis" honey is called in our country: "Su*insyn" and it's the favourite drink of our ex president Olek.
On my wedding, it will be 90L of "home made" with 3 tastes :-), the best.
I have similar feelings like Bartek,
ReplyDeleteand yes, you can actually taste the differences between vodkas
Biala Dama, Pan Tadeusz, Danzka are in my humble opinion very good
absolwent, absolut, smirnoff are horrible
Open bar is also a great idea, when you want something else to drink, you have plenty of choices
I don't like any kind of Vodka, I would prefare Wine if I have to choose.. Beer is reserved for friends meeting or really hot days.. About special alcohols.. hmm Vodka is our special alcohol;) But "jabcok" is good candidate for our next-gen special alcohol:)
ReplyDeleteI agree with Michal that Polish vodka is of our pride. We are among the most popular high-percent alcohol. Vodka like Belvedere, Chopin, Luksusowa, Wyborowa, Żubrówka, Żołądkowa Gorzka are well known in the whole world. Do you know that Bruce Willis will advertise Sobieski vodka during next 4 years?! He will earn 4 mln dollars. Sobieski is going to make one's debut in European and Chinese market and Bruce will be a face of our alcohol. Isn’t it great?
ReplyDeleteLook at this discussion about vodka (UK forum)
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061121065553AAjMi71
Polish articles about our vodka market:
http://www.rynki.pl/index.php?id=66&option=com_content&task=view
http://www.rynki.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102
http://recordsc.webd.pl/sheffield/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53
I have grown up not in PRL and I love vodka ;)
Im not a specialist in this kind of topic ;] But i thought that wine from apples sill exists, is called 'jabol' and costs around 5 zl? :D As for drinks on wedding.. im planning one in near future and i have been thinking about putting there a table with various beers so if anyone would like to drink a beer instead of vodka he could go there and choose something. I have few friends who prefer good beer instead of vodka.. :)
ReplyDeleteI can't agree with the author of the text. There is a lot of quality polish alcohol which is widely known all over the world. A lot of people in foreign countries buy Żubrówka, Wyborowa, Chopin and so on...
ReplyDeleteI remember that in high school I went with my class to London on language-camp, it was surprise for us when we found "Wyborowa" "Żywiec" and other alcohols in almost every shop in the city ;]
ReplyDeleteThis fact confirms that we have one of greatest vodkas in Europe (and I believe all over the world). Personally I prefer "Żołądkowa Deluxe" or "Wyborowa" ;]
Oh... I found maybe useful link for someone:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ilemogewypic.pl/alkomat.php
Virtual breathalyser (based on mathematical algorithm) ;]