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[David E. Crawford]

I'd recommend reserving the Malta for light-duty rust removal rather than
actual consumption.

Our one semi-local Russian grocery (in Orlando) usually carries various
brands of forgettable stuff in plastic bottles that I call "kvas soda", i.e.
brown and fizzy but not a lot of flavor and no ethanol.  However, they also
carry small jars of brown goo, "Концентрат Квасного Сусла", which you can
combine with prescribed quantities of sugar, warm water, yeast, and about 24
hours of fermentation time to produce a quite acceptable tabletop brew that
you'd think came right out of the yellow tanker-trailer...  It takes the
edge off of yardwork in the Florida hot summer sun quite nicely...

And whatever happened to the real Baltika No. 9?  The BBC reported last week
that Baltika is now producing a Number Zero, appropriately designated and
constituted for export to Iran...

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David E. Crawford
Titusville, Florida
United States of America
28.51N 80.83W
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and 
> Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Janneke.vandeStadt at WILLIAMS.EDU
> Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 08:33
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] BKYC KBACA
> 
> As it happens, I'm actually in a position to offer two cents 
> on this one: I'm in
> San Juan, PR, with a bottle of "Malta" in my little hand! 
> 
> Tony's use of "genre" is most apt here, I think.  I can see 
> how one might be
> reminded of kvas after a sip or two of Malta, but it is 
> definitely much more
> syrupy, and, I would add, has far less flavor.  
> 
> My husband would not be caught dead in the same room as kvas, 
> but he will
> happily imbibe Malta.  I'm still working on him.
> 
> Hasta la vista,
> 
> Janneke
> 
>  
> 
> Quoting "Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]" 
> <anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV>:
> 
> > While I would agree that it's definitely in the same genre 
> as kvas, I
> > find it quite a bit sweeter and thicker--and because of 
> that, not nearly
> > as refreshing.  But maybe the recipe has changed since the 
> last time I
> > tried it.
> > 
> > Tony
> > 
> > Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
> > Director, JSC Language Education Center
> > TechTrans International, Inc.
> > NASA Johnson Space Center
> > Houston, TX
> > anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov
> > Phone:  (281) 483-0644
> > Fax:  (281) 483-4050 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and 
> Literatures list
> > [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of E Wayles Browne
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:01 PM
> > To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> > Subject: [SEELANGS] BKYC KBACA
> > 
> > There is a Caribbean beverage, malta, made by the Goya Company and
> > widely available in North American grocery stores. Would SEELANGS
> > readers agree with our impression that it tastes very 
> similar to Russian
> > kvas? If anyone is afflicted by beskvas'e, this might be a worthy
> > substitute.
> > --
> > Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics Department of Linguistics
> > Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
> > 
> > tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> > fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> > e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
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