Anyone who's done Bulgaria, will know at least a bit about Rakia.

This salad is often consumed as an appetiser with rakia.

For some peasants, a flask of rakia is one's only luggage.

Many folk songs have been composed during rakia production.

Normally, rakia is colourless, unless herbs or other ingredients are added.

On the right, there are a few small tables where colourful local characters drink coffee or down shots of rakia.

There are many kinds of rakia, depending on the fruit it is produced from:

He would then light the candle, take a sip of rakia, taste some bread, drink wine, and go back into his house.

Plum or apple rakia is distilled in the northern region of Bosnia.

Main courses come off the grill; the drink of choice is rakia, a Bulgarian brandy.

Until then, beer was practically unknown in what used to be a mainly rakia and wine-drinking country.

By tradition, distilling a certain amount of rakia for home use has been free of taxes.

Wine is, together with beer and grape rakia, among the most popular alcoholic beverages in the country.

Union representatives say that many employees routinely spend working hours drinking beer or rakia, a local home brew.

Albanian families are traditionally known to grow grapes in their gardens for producing wine and Rakia.

Commercially produced Rakia is usually around 45%.

We order another rakia and, as I watch the waves lapping against the sand, I'm tempted.

The meal is often accompanied with wine or Bulgaria's traditional alcoholic beverage rakia.

The production of premium quality plum brandy (rakia) has become a part of the local culture.

Travarica (herbal rakia) is usually served at the beginning of the meal, together with dried figs.

They also mixed yeast rakia with plum ţuică, but kept the same concentration of alcohol.

The rakia goes down well.

By the end of the century, rakia took its current standard form and its consumption surpassed that of wine.

He would take with him a loaf of bread called good luck, prepared particularly for this ritual, rakia, wine, and a wax candle.

He summoned Rakia Idrissou, the elderly woman who is the village exciser.