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  Mongolia Today - online magazine
Airag is produced throughout summer in a specially made hide skin bag.
Fresh airag is basically mild but if kept for long enough it may turn sour and acidic.
Airag is widely used for treatment of many diseases.
www.mongoliatoday.com /issue/4/airag.html   (389 words)

  
 Mongolia Today online magazine
Airag or fermented mare’s milk is a beverage of choice for Mongols.
Tasting slightly acidic, it is both a mild drink, a food and medicine, helping herders to stay healthy and strong.
Though drinking too much, one can easily become drunken, especially given that airag is usually served in huge, up to five liters bowls.
www.mongoliatoday.com /issue/4   (0 words)

  
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To ferment the drink, a portion of airag from previous batch is used as a starter.
To distil a vodka, vigorously beaten airag is filled in a big pot and a cone- shaped wooden barrel is put on the it correctly, a handle bucket “jalavch” is hanged up, a bowl shaped cover is put on the barrel and finally cold water filled in.
Next, as kindling a fire, the airag is boiled and there made of steamed alcoholic component, and dark brown drops are completed in the bottom of the handle bucket with the cold water or Mongolian vodka is formed.
www.khaliuntravel.com /details.php?menu=35   (1001 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Airag   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Airag is widely used to cure lung and respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, to activate the digestion, and to improve the overall strength of a person.
Airag is served to the guests at the beginning of a celebration or feast.
Drinking too much airag, one may easily become drunken, especially given the fact that usually airag is served in huge bowls.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Airag   (319 words)

  
 Sake-Drenched Postcards - A Tour of Ulaanbaatar
Airag is probably the most favorite drink of the Mongolians.
Airag is generously served at weddings, big parties and ceremonies.
To make airag from mare's milk, put it into a hohuur (a big leather bag made from cow's skin) and beat it until it gets fermented.
www.bigempire.com /sake/mongolia.html   (1419 words)

  
 Gobi Home Page
Mares are milked and the fermented milk is the Mongolians' favorite drink "the airag" which can then be distilled in an alcohol, "arkhi", a typical Mongolian vodka.
Airag is offered as a ritual to the visitors.
When entering into a ger, airag and cheese are and blown snuff bottles are exchanged.
www.oneearthadventures.com /gobi/people/people.htm   (1394 words)

  
 Culture Mongolia - Festivities   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the beginning of the festivity airag is served three times to all participants, in a quantity established by the director of the celebration.
Once everyone has consumed three bowls of airag, the sönchin pronounces the words "dugaraa jigderlee", meaning litterally "the serving of airag has reached a level", whereupon the head of the celebration gives permission to the singer and musicians to begin their performance.
When the end of the celebration is approaching the head of the host family holds a long blue khadag and a bowl full of airag and invites one of the participants skilled in the recitation of poetry to pronounce a blessing, which is selected as appropriate to the type of the celebration.
www.culture.mn /mongolia.php?recordID=festivities   (676 words)

  
 MOngolian_dairy_products
After that Airag should be transferred to the special large pot that has very small opening on the top, through which long mixture is installed.
A bowl of airag is placed in the bottom of the metal barrel shape container, an empty bowl is fitted inside it towards the top of the barrel and a third bowl of cold water is placed at the top.
The airag is heated, evaporates and condenses on the bottom of the cold bowl and drops into the empty bowl.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/02014/English/DairyProducts.htm   (1783 words)

  
 Progress Report Hole 7 - Got Horse Milk? -- Golf Mongolia
Airag is an acquired taste, and some is better than others.
I've had airag when I visited Mongolia two years ago, but I had never seen a homemade still in a ger producing airag vodka, or arkhi.
It's airag season now and every ger has liters of it waiting to be shared with random visitors.
www.golfmongolia.com /Progress%20Report%20Hole%207.html   (690 words)

  
 Extracts:
Inside, we were invited to sit on nursery-size stools, then loaded with dumplings and urged to drink large amounts of airag, which was served in pot-bellied china bowls.
Airag is to the Mongolians what tea and biscuits are to English country parsons.
Mongolians only endure their frost-bitten winter months with the promise of airag by the vat in the summer.
www.nomadom.net /mongolia/extracts.htm   (707 words)

  
 Ubdeli restaurant in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia - Drink for your Health
Airag is produced throughout summer in a specially made hide skin bag.
Airag is widely used for treatment of many diseases.
So, in order to make enough airag for a family, as well as guests it is necessary to have at least a dozen mares.
www.ubdeli-mongolia.com /mongolia/food/drink-for-your-health.html   (382 words)

  
 MONGOLIAN FOOD
Fresh airag is basically mild but if kept for long enough it may turn sour and acidic.
So, in order to make enough airag for family, as well as visitors (no shortage of willing) it is necessary to have at least a dozen mares.
In addition, to get good quality airag it is necessary to stir the milk mix no less than 1,000 times each day.
aduuchin.tripod.com /mon/id14.html   (437 words)

  
 BryBlog: Part Six: Gers, Airag and Vodka   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Airag: A common and popular Mongolian alcoholic beverage made from fermented mares milk.
Sold in recycled pop bottles, airag can be found most anywhere and it is common for your driver to purchase quantities from the side of the road.
Airag isn’t as bad as you would think it is. I was expecting something quite ‘creamy’, yet it is quite watery and fizzy, given the fermentation.
www.bryan-crosby.ca /2006/10/part_six_gers_airag_and_vodka.html   (2354 words)

  
 The Triangle Online- The Student Newspaper at Drexel University   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The latter I'm sure you are familiar with, but airag is a delicacy one could say does not have universal appeal.
Airag is a revolting homemade concoction made of fermented horse's milk (rotten yogurt), and I can precisely compare it to drinking balsamic vinegar straight up.
After a satisfying main course of lamb and noodle stew, the family sang songs and poured as much airag and vodka as we could handle.
www.thetriangle.org /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=aae35908-9d6e-420a-ad65-50401f51ac75&page=2   (558 words)

  
 Mongol Exclusive Tours Co.,ltd.
Airag /fermented mare's milk/ is probably the most favorite drink of the Mongolians.
Airag, the fermented mare's milk, has three times more Vitamin C than cow's milk.
Airag is further fermented to make shimiin arkhi (milk vodka).
www.mongol-tours.mn /about_e.htm   (6438 words)

  
 Mongolia's Naadam used to define civilization: archery, wrestling and horse riding
Winning horses and riders are showered with fermented mare's milk, or airag, the national nectar.
Airag is offered to anyone who visits a ger, or yurt, as the mobile Mongolian tent-like huts are known.
And huge vats of airag were brewing beside thousands of tents in the outskirts of Ulan Bator, where the country people camp during Naadam.
www.gluckman.com /Naadam.html   (1488 words)

  
 Mongolia Travel – Mongolia Travel Guide – Ulaanbaatar Hotels and Air tickets, Tours
Airag is Mongolian respect and safely drink so you never to spit and drop it outside.
Mongolian famous and tasty airags originated from Bulgan.
Airag gives strength and cheerfulness and it destroys pathogenic microbes in the intestines and helps improve the living body metabolisms.
www.mongoliatravelguide.mn /info_National_food_beverage.html   (964 words)

  
 Mongolia asian culture page with food information and recipes from asia
The main drink is salty tea, but men also drink either vodka or a home-made drink called airag, which is made from fermented mare’s milk.
Herders make their own unique home brewed airag, which is fermented mare's milk with an alcoholic content of about 3%.
Airag is the important drink during Tsagaan Sar, however, "Shimiin arkhi" (milk vodka) and regular vodka accompany food as well.
asiarecipe.com /monculture.html   (2549 words)

  
 I reached Airag after two and a half days crossing the desert
I reached Airag, an "oasis" town in the middle of the Gobi, after days of struggle crossing the desert.
Airag is on the railroad line that connects UlaanBaatar with Beijing, China.
Like all the towns and villages along the line, Airag’s link to the outside world is by way of the railroad.
www.new-millennium-ride.org /gobistory.htm   (6681 words)

  
 Carnegie Museum of Natural History Anthropology
Airag contains five times more vitamin C than cow's milk, but also yields vitamins A, B1, B2, B12, D, and E and contains between 1 and 2.5% ethyl alcohol (Kosikowski 1982: 43).
Because the people have few vegetables in their diet, airag is an important dietary staple.
Airag is available for at least 6 months out of the year, starting in May when the foals are born.
www.carnegiemnh.org /anthro/olsen_mongolia4.html   (1140 words)

  
 Absinthe Forums at the Wormwood Society > Base alcohol differences?
A friend of mine went to Mongolia last summer where he tried kumis, or airag as they called it there, and he reported it tasted like carbonated sour milk.
Their airag was made from mare's milk as well as milk from camels.
Airag made by different families taste different, he said, and the bottled one that can be bought in stores was too sour to be good.
www.wormwoodsociety.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t1366-50.html   (1321 words)

  
 Travel Guide Mongolia - Drinks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Airag or fermented mares milk is Mongolian national drink.
Mongolian vodka is made from airag has a rich sorts of remedies, because containing a ferments, sugar, minerals and earth micro elements such as vitamin A, B, C, D, globulin and others.
Its contain is similar to airag, but widespread for treatment of chronic digestion and liver deseases, also, for preventing from them and cosmetic purposes.
travel.guide-mongolia.com /food/drinks/drinks.html   (338 words)

  
 NOMADS - Tents in the city
She touches her elbow in the traditional fashion as she extends her arm to offer us a bowl of airag, fermented mare’s milk.
Airag is considered a delicacy by Mongol nomads who drink up to 10 litres of the stuff a day.
We are seated inside a Mongol yurt or ger whose shape closely resembles a dome.
www.newint.org /issue266/tents.htm   (874 words)

  
 airag stock images / stock images of airag photos search
Airag (fermented horse milk) and Mongolian sweets in ger, central Mongolia ?
Aaruul or milk curds dry on the roof of the ger.
Mongolian twin girs drink airag inside their ger or yurt.
www.photographersdirect.com /stockimages/a/airag.asp   (585 words)

  
 Mongolia part 3 (English)
Mares can only be milked if their foals are close by, so you can recognize a ger of an airag-making family by a group of foals tied close by.
Airag is always free, so I have no idea how these families make their living.
Airag is as important in Mongolian culture, as vodka in Russian or vine in French.
dinets.travel.ru /ecamel3.htm   (4223 words)

  
 Nutrients in mare's milk and when to wean the foal. Imbalance and the lack of minerals may cause OCD, developmental ...
Learn what nutirients are important to the nursing foal and if they are available in the mare's milk.
He should be receiving a good quality foal feed that meets his nutritional requirements and makes up for the lack of trace minerals in his mother's milk.
Once the foal is weaned we can have our airag, which is made from fermented mare's milk and is served in a bowl.
www.thewayofhorses.com /mares_milk.html   (542 words)

  
 Airag: Milk ‘n’ cheese from the stable - Food Mall
Airag, the traditional beverage of Central Asia is made out of fermented mare’s milk.
Kumis or airag is traditionally made by milking the mare and storing their milk in bags made of horse hides called as “saba”.
This milk is churned by a long wooden stick, for a 1000 times, and the fermentation process starts in the night, imparting a mild alcoholic taste to the drink.
www.foodmall.org /entry/airag-milk-n-cheese-from-the-stable   (589 words)

  
 Mongolia - OpenSteppe - Web Trade and eCommerce Mongolia
The diet is for a great deal based on mutton and dairy products; the things given to them by the animals.
The preferred local drink is airag, fermented mare's milk.
In the last century the nomadic society did come under threat by the destructive ideals of communism.
www.opensteppe.com /mongolia.htm   (0 words)

  
 airag - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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 The Making of Airag
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Mongolian herdsmen enjoy a fermented milk drink called Airag.
Each summer after the mares have foaled, they are brought into the Ger camp with their young.
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