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Karelian balsam - an excellent souvenir

Karelia in summer is a popular tourist destination. Countless lakes, rivers, white nights and a peculiar northern nature ... But I want to bring home something in memory of this wonderful land: something originally authentic, which you can not buy in stores in other regions of Russia. Karelian balm is an excellent choice . Reviews of him say that he is good as a souvenir to his beloved, but it is also useful as a gift to friends or colleagues Am. This liqueur drink is produced both in ordinary bottles, and beautiful, souvenir, in the form of bells, chess pieces or in ceramic jugs.

There are several types of Karelian balsams. They are all useful and tasty. There is a "Valaam", produced in an elegant pot-bellied faceted bottle, "Kizhi" and, in fact, "Karelian". But if the first one really likes the beautiful half of humanity because of the greater sweetness and aroma of orange peel, then the latter carries a piquant bitterness, and therefore is suitable for men, and also serves as the basis for a variety of cocktails. This strong alcoholic beverage (40%) will be an excellent accompaniment to cigars. Drink it from small liqueur piles, and also add to coffee or tea.

In the northern region there are two distilleries, which produce "Karelian balsam" - in the capital of the republic, and a small town of Lochdenpohja. The products of both bakeries are worthy of all due respect, but since the Petrozavodsk combine has more opportunities to participate in world contests on the bitter market (the so-called bitter hard drinks 40-45% abroad), the label on the bottle of this plant is full of various medals. As a souvenir, you can choose a bottle, where Kizhi is represented on the label.

Karelian balsam is a wise gift to elderly parents, as it possesses numerous healing properties and at the same time is not sold in a pharmacy. Thus, older people will not have the impression that you gave them a medicine. The composition of this strong drink includes more than thirty kinds of roots and northern grasses, including chaga - a means widely recognized by modern medicine that prevents the development of cancer. The taste of alcohol softens the rowan, cranberry, cranberry and crimson fruit drinks and pure water from deep wells. Sweet Karelian honey gives the bitter an indescribable taste.

In addition, Karelian balsam has other useful properties. Plantain and St. John's wort remove inflammation, kalgan normalizes the work of the stomach, sage and linden have long been used for colds, and leaves of cranberries normalize metabolism. Well, the berry of a dogrose is just a storehouse of vitamins. Naturally, do not forget that the drink has a strength of 40%, so you should use it with caution. Elderly people are best to add it on a teaspoon in tea, especially at night,

Since the bitter reduces the stimulating effect of caffeine, it relaxes and warms well.

But as an additive to coffee "Karelian balsam" has the opposite effect. Try to prepare a cocktail "Northern Viagra": in a cup of freshly brewed coffee (100 g) add 50 g bitter and slightly ground ground fried walnut kernels. This strong drink is an excellent ingredient for a variety of alcoholic cocktails. It is best combined with vodka, but also with cranberry and cherry liqueurs. You can prepare and "non-alcoholic" cocktail, simply pouring the balm into a glass with Coca-Cola or cherry juice.

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