Galina Suikieva, How to Distill Milk Vodka

Abstract

Galina recalls how people made milk vodka in the past. 2 buckets of cow’s milk were left to ferment for a week. Then it was poured into a big pot sitting on a tripod, and a fire was set underneath. The big pot was connected with another smaller pot with a special pipe (tsorg). The vodka vapor in the big pot moved to the small one through this pipe. Before distillation, the pipe was smeared with mud.