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 SCOTLAND’S INNIS AND GUNN BREWERY INVENTS A NEW STYLE OF ALE by: Hrayr Berberoglu Beer is the world’s most popular alcoholic beverage. It may be ale or lager. The former is brewed using malted barley, water, hops, and specific yeast strains for quick, high-temperature fermentation. Ales are generally sweeter, full-bodied, fruit, copper-tone brown beers that can be produced in pubs within a few days. Etymologically, cognate (1) of ale is Old Norse (øl), Old English (alu or ealu), Old Prussian (alu), Lithuanian (alu), and Finnish (solut). |   |
| | | Burgenland - Austria’s sweet wine paradise by: Hrayr Berberoglu Burgenland, located in eastern Austria and bordering Hungary, enjoys a worldwide reputation among connoisseurs for producing outstanding sweet Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese wines. The region was part of Hungary until 1921. A referendum established that the population wished to be part of Austria. Although viniculture existed for millennia in the area, the vintners were preferred to produce large quantities of wine until after the region became part of Austria. | |
| | SPANISH IBERICO HAM by: Hrayr Berberoglu Allain Ducasse, one of the most celebrated and respected French chefs today, said of Iberico ham: “This ham is truly one of the world’s gastronomic jewels”. He serves Iberico ham from Spain in all his restaurants. Most French chefs believe that food originating on their homeland is superior to anything grown or caught outside it. The fact that a world famous French chef is using Spanish ham because of its superior appearance, taste and texture is rare. Iberico ham’s excellent taste derives from its ascendancy. The Iberian pig still lives in its original habitat, the dehesa, a mixture of forests and meadows in southeastern Spain. | |
| | CHINESE WINE HISTORY AND MODERN WINES by: Hrayr Berberoglu This vast and most populous country of the world with its indigenous vine species (vitis amurensis, vitis thunbergii) has a very short western-style wine enjoyment. Wine is still poorly and assuredly not understood. Young people living in major cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Canton, Xian) with money in their pockets want to experience and experiment new tastes. To them wine is a novelty and an “in“ alcoholic beverage. Drinking merlot with coke may revolt a western wine enthusiast, but to a Chinese, sweet and alcoholic means more than fruity and dry. Some even add a few cubes of ice to cool it! | |
| | CHENIN BLANC by: Hrayr Berberoglu Chenin Blanc gets no respect in North America. You may call it the most undervalued of all grapes, and even though it is white, people still insist on calling it Chenin Blanc, as if there was a red variety. South Africans call it something different altogether – Steen. Don’t ask me why. | |
| | POLISH VODKAS OF DISTINCTION by: Hrayr Berberoglu Vodka is a diminutive for of the Slavic word voda (water). It means little water. The first record of vodka dates back to 1405 in Poland. Although Russians claim to have produced vodka before Poles, the Poles insist and can prove that they were the first. | |
| | | WORLD’S BEST AND WORST AIRPORTS by: Hrayr Berberoglu Air travel appears to be most popular for long distance travel. Tourists and business people prefer using this method of transportation.
Despite the inconvenience of time-consuming, and occasionally intrusive body and luggage controls, people fly, even, pay high prices. (Rating-1.00) | |
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