Brännvin
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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
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.
Vodka
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Vodka is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage. Its varieties originated in Poland and Russia. Vodka is composed mainly of water and ethanol, sometimes with traces of impurities and flavourings. Tradit
Brännvin
…century. From the early 1870s, distillery equipment was improved. Progressively from the 1960s, unflavoured Swedish brännvin also came to be called vodka. The first Swedish product to use this term was Explorer Vodka, which was created in 1958 and initially was intended for the American export market…
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Russian vodka in various bottles and cups
A Vodka museum in Russia, located in Verkhniye Mandrogi, Leningrad Oblast
Historical vodka stills at the Museum of Folk Architecture & Life in Pereiaslav, Ukraine, 2007