Yambolska Rakia Drinking Glass

Local Rakia from Yambol known as Yambolska Rakia often comes in 700 cl or 1 litre sized bottles. On these bottles sometimes is a Rakia drinking glass. It's not free as they up the price if this is with the bottle. You will find many homes in Yambol with these glasses in their kitchen. Hardly any in villages as they never buy Rakia but drink their own.

I personally have around five of these, all bought during the first year here when my own prodution wasn't in action. They are of good quality and I always use this glass to drink my own Rakia. As you can see the black print is slightly worn away where it has been picked up and drunk every evening over the last few years.

Bulgarian Homemade Rakia In Jeopardy Before EU Entry

This article was published back in 2003 well before Bulgaria became entangled with EU regulations concerning duty from home made distilled rakia. I'm sure it was a warning shot from Bulgarian politicians who knew that one of the conditions for Bulgarian EU entry was rakia making accountablility to become mandatory. This of course could prejudice Bulgaria becoming an EU member if not applied.

It is now know that it continues to be an ongoing battle for Bulgarians to have the freedom to produce alcoholic products from nature and their own hand from within Bulgarian and the EU.

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Home-Made Rakia Stilled by Vine-Growers Only Only people growing vineyards or other fruit of their own, will be let to still home-made rakia up to 50 litres per household, the Budget Committee adopted at the second reading of the amendments to the Excise Duties Act. From August 1, 2004 on, all the private-owned small distilleries will have to be equipped with special gauges to measure the quality of the liquors. The amendment stipulating higher fines to be levied on illicit distilling will be debated next week. Liquors in plastic bottles exceeding 1 l to be banned, the MPs passed. They, however, allowed liquors to be sold in glass bottles up to 1.5 l. The MPs are to adopt the notorious new excise duties on fuels next week, too. -------- Sourced from new.standartnews.com on Saturday, 29 November 2003 Image via Wikipedia