Distilleries: quality alcohol or fake?

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

It is so usual in Russia, and in many other countries of the world, that not a single holiday, not a single celebration is complete without alcoholic beverages. Distilleries are one of the largest businesses. Here are underground enterprises, taking advantage of the demand for the products of one manufacturer or another, selling counterfeit goods.

How to choose real branded alcohol?

Coming to a good store, we sometimes do not think that counterfeit products can be displayed on the shelves. If you're lucky, then instead of the elite drink that the distilleries produce, you will come across a quite tolerable fake. But in many cases, you can run into a real poison. In pursuit of profits, counterfeiters use cheap hazardous alcohols.

The first thing to notice is the row of bottles of the same product. Let's say whiskey or vodka. At the factory manufacturer in bottles, the drink will be poured equally evenly, millimeter to millimeter, as the machine pours. And the products that fake distilleries produce will be poured differently everywhere. Accordingly, it is better to leave this store.

Cognac lovers to identify the realdrink, you need to turn the bottle over. Remember that real cognac is thick and oily in consistency. A drop should fall from the bottom, and traces of dripping will remain on the walls. If the bottle is filled up to the neck, you need to shake it. Large bubbles should go first, then small ones. This indicates the quality of the drink. Unfortunately, the label is now almost impossible to determine the authenticity of alcohol.

Which alcoholic drinks are better - imported or Russian?

We know high-quality alcoholic beverages in foreign products. Many people prefer to buy whiskey or cognac only imported. Since the days of the Soviet Union, the idea has firmly settled in my head that the alcohol that Russian distilleries produce is of poor quality. This prejudice persisted due to the shortage of these products during Prohibition, when you could only buy "scorched" alcohol. At present, the situation is exactly the opposite. Due to the latest events taking place in world politics and the sanctions imposed on Russia, now imported alcohol is not so popular. Underground producers take advantage of the lack of foreign alcohol on the shelves, supplying their products to the maximum.

Distilleries of Russia

We have a large number of good distilleries. Many of them have proven themselves in the alcoholic beverages market due to their excellent quality and reasonable prices, unlike imported alcohol. "Radamir","Nemanoff", "Kursky", "Volgogradsky" - this is not the whole list of the largest producers of alcoholic beverages in Russia. These factories produce high-quality liqueurs, vodka, bitters, gin.