Akvavit or aquavit is a distilled spirit that is principally produced in Scandinavia, where it has been produced since the 15th century. Akvavit is distilled from grain or potatoes and is flavoured wi
Brännvin is an old Nordic term for distilled liquor, generally from potatoes, grain, or wood cellulose etc., and is today primarily used as a name for "Nordic-style" spirits, and then mainly divided i
Akvavit
…Ukraine: Оковита Brännvin, a more general term that includes unflavoured brands Poitín, an Irish distilled spirit occupying a similar place in the culture…
A bottle of brännvin
Brännvin distillation, 1910s
An old brännvin keg
Skittles at Faggen's. Drinking scene with a bottle of brännvin from Carl Michael Bellman's Fredman's Epistle no. 55, by Peter Eskilson, 1868.