Folklore festival with Mead
Beregynya annual festival in Lutsk, Volyn region featured lots of folklore, crafts, music and dancing, special church service and a parade. Locals poured on the streets to enjoy the sight, show themselves and check out others.
I saw a particularly good exhibit by 12-15-yr-olds and helped out my family to sell their mead. Mead is sth of a mix between cider and wine, made purely of honey, water and hops, 15 grad proof or so, served mostly chilled. It’s been around Europe ever since druids. If it was not so complicated to set up a small business in Ukraine, I would long ago embark into the family business of marking this drink. And even though receteering and petty crime has gone down in the past 15 years, the govermnment corruption has grown stronger. So we keep this treat exclusively to our family circle and some rare festival outings. Although if my readers would like to try some…
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May 28th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I’d love to try some mead!
Lucky you… and what a pity for the rest of the world that you are hindered from manufacturing and marketing it.
Gotta hate bureaucrats everywhere. Even here in Canada, it is bureaucrats in the government as much as (if not more than) politicians whose corruption impedes progress.
Unfortunately, in Canada (and increasingly in the USA) an idiotic notion prevails that a *truly* free market is a nasty, evil thing and that government exists to make it all right.
Such people refuse to face the reality of how well that worked (not) in the “good old” USSR … and that what passes for a free market system in the west is actually just “crony capitalism” which is the business model for the leftover soviet apparatchiks in eastern Europe. So blind are western “progressives” that they as often as not resent Ukraine and Ukrainians for exposing the truth.
Sigh.
Oh well, enjoy your festival and have a shot of mead for me! I hope you’ll be posting more pics … and how about the recipe, maybe?
May 29th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
enidd says yes please to the mead too! that festival looked interesting, enidd would have liked to have sampled such a thing while she was in ukraine.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Dear olechko. Hehe cute of you at the exhibition. Did you say mead? I think we have time for one more shebang with some mead before enidd leaves for good!
May 30th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Dear Enidd and Little Miss Moi, I shall not return to Kyiv without several liters of this wonderful spirit!
Dear Pawlina, I will make sure to post the recipe as soon as I get it out of my dad. He gets secretive at times, but I know it involves lots of honey and hops. Yes, the currest matter of state allows me to be lazy and moan on my blog about not being able to do things here, sigh.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:19 am
Mead has also been around in Ireland for forever. Bit too sweet for me though….lovely pic of the lady with the embroidered table scarves at the festival….