Turkish spirit "Raki". Maybe not well known alcohol as much as Polish vodka. But when you start to enjoy it makes addiction. Actually when someones try raki first time he/she can hate it because of smell and taste. It contains around %40 alcohol and mostly people are mixing it with water. And it becomes white color when you mix it with water.So what can you eat with Raki? Well, when you say -raki to someone, probably it will remind him fish. Honestly Raki&Fish is one of most popular combination in Turkey. Espacially next to Bosphorus and Golden Horn You can find top class fish restaurants.
Beside fishes, people like to eat cheese and melon while drinking raki. And other cold served dishes like Haydari, Fava and different kind of dishes with oliveoil.
There is special glass for drinking raki. It' thin and deep glass. But if you cant find these kind of glass, some people using turkish tea glass.
So, let's talk about taste of Raki. Have you ever tried Ouzo? Greek spirit. If you are in to different kind of alcohols I am sure you tried Ouzo. Because its well promoted drink than Raki. Raki and Ouzo similar taste and similar smell. Because both are producing by fermented and distillaited by fruits, mostly grapes. And smell is coming from anise.
I started to my words with the name "Turkish Raki". But Raki blongs to all balkan countries not unlike Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Croatia. And almost all of them are using same name for Raki. For example Rakija in Bosnia and Croatia, Raki in Albania, Rachiu in Romania etc.
Another most important thing is Rakı must be Cold. There must be icecubes in glass or glass must be in ice. Theres also special ice bowl for raki glass called Ehlikeyf.
Most famous raki brand is Yeni Raki. Others are Tekirdağ, Efe raki, Kulüp Raki, Burgaz,Ata, Fasil, Çilingir etc.
In this video below, you can see people from different part of Turkey who is enjoying Raki with nice music. Its a commercial video of Yeni Raki. BTW Alcohol commercials are not allowed on TV :P But they made good video.
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