Name: The History of Budapest In Three Cups
Uploaded: 2021-03-26T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 3 min 26 s
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Because in this city, you have to indulge in a glassful of Hungarian history.

Without further ado, let's bring in our experts.

who heads up the House of Hungarian Pálinka in Budapest.

Pálinka is deeply woven into the fabric of Hungarian society.

And the history of Pálinka began in 1300s

when the Queen and the King of Hungary were all suffering from gout.

They stumbled upon this earlier version of Pálinka,

It is made from a huge variety of fruits,

apricots to plums to cherries to pears to apples.

The usual alcohol content is typically between 40 and 50 percent,

Really, Unicum is a bitter herbal liquor;

See this Dr. Zwack was the physician to the Emperor of Austria-Hungary.

which is made of 40 different kinds of herbs and spices.

The recipe's a secret, so I can tell you that,

And for you non-drinkers, there's soda water.

My name is László Kiss, and I am a soda water maker.

The fact is we don't use many ingredients, only carbon dioxide and water,

but the different ways of mixing, how much water with how much carbon dioxide,

and also how much pressure you fill these bottles with is crucial,

It was in Hungary where the large scale production of soda water started.

Ányos Jedlik invented it in the 1820s, and the consumption of soda water has boomed since then.

I think anyone who feels Hungarian inside starts to smile when they see a soda water bottle.

- That was strong. - That's a good drink. - That was great.

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