Moonshine. Table conversations in the Siberian village

The film Daria Grishanova

The moonshine in the Russian village was driven by various authorities, regardless of various prohibitions - from the state monopolies of the royal times to the anti -alcohol campaign of Gorbachev.

Now in Russia it is allowed to make moonshine for itself - but not for sale. There are lovers, including in cities for whom moonshine is a hobby, and not cheap. Moonshine devices are in open trade (although the authorities have been tightening control recently). But, as before, many make moonshine to save.

Stories about the new and old traditions of moonshine and the table -accompanying them in the village near Tomsk - in the film of Daria Grishanova "moonshine".

Sergey

You can’t just put it on a stream for himself, here everyone is trying to achieve something of their own. Basically, people seek to make vodka, it is not so difficult with normal equipment. Why do I just need vodka? I like just such a product, this is called Archpriest.

My grandmother and my grandfather were always driving moonshine in the bathhouse. At night it all happened

Previously, [moonshine] was criminally punishable, even if you just had a device. If you found the device at home, then there was already a fine, punishment, and so on. My grandmother and my grandfather were always driving moonshine in the bathhouse. It all happened at night. There were weddings, all kinds of partying, it was impossible to put alcohol on the table: as there was an anti -alcohol campaign, they exposed in the teapots of porcelain, iron. I even have a sister from such a teapot for a moonshine. There was a compote for children, in the same other big kettle, she was small, she thought it was a compote, she sipped right from the nose.

I drank three glasses - and in Lulia

The next goal is to get grapes and make grape vodka. But this, I think, will be only when I move to Krasnodar, only there it will be solved. We select the “heads” - the head fractions, there are all sorts of bad substances, which, in fact, cannot be drunk, such as acetone, there is a whole bouquet. What was previously called Pervom was very appreciated, drank three glasses - and in Lulu, there is all the bad substances.

Petrovich

The whole village was walking, we went to hang out for a week

No, we are not persecuted, they bring us. The moonshine used to be her own. We cooked from potatoes, we had no idea about sugar. Potatoes, malt, barley and wheat were germinated - then you dry and coolest coarsely. Healthy in barrels - who is a bucket, who have two. The potatoes were freezed in winter, sweet to be. The yeast and hops laid a little. I myself freezed potatoes for weddings, party. Especially in winter they drove. Guests, weddings. Do you buy, or what? The whole village was walking, they went to hang out for a week. Where to buy it all? There was vodka in the store, but there was its own, and its natural, no one ever poisoned, there was no idea.

I was born in 1937. I was four years old, the war began. I remember my father carried me in his arms: "You will be the master. Listen to mom." He gave parting words, carried in his hands. There is a funeral, in December 1942 he went missing.

[When he grew up, he began to work on horses, then on a tractor, in 1960 he went to the tractor driver. [Village] began to bend when the state farm became. In 1967, they began to move slowly. And they didn’t let anyone out on the collective farm: they won’t give a certificate, you won’t get a passport - where will you go? So everyone lived. They worked at workdays when they would give a little bread, what kind of bread - oats.

The son -in -law set to distill a small, three liters of a tank. [I have no my apparatus. Will I mess around? I will not want ready soon. So, a glass, I never drink a lot. I will pour a glass, pull it, I will sit again, we sing well. The food is good, all of its own.

Baba Galya

Grandfather will bring, get a spoon, a match - one, and it flashes

I am on the flask of water, four buckets, 10 kilograms of sugar and a pack of yeast. This is homemade, the husband himself did. He put the trough, he lowered the hose, here is a flask. He poured water here or stuffed snow, from here the moonshine ran. They put on jam. Sweetness, the most important thing is that it was. If you want strong, to burn, 60 degrees, and if weaker, then dilute. If a good moonshine, then it is 60 degrees. Grandfather will bring, get a spoon, a match - one, and she flashes.

Now I have no [moonshine] at all, not even mash. I do not put anything. My parents [did not drive]. Mom will only put the mash, but the moonshine never drove. Probably did not know how. Our dad worked as the chief accountant. And my eldest brother was mentally ill, therefore we never put anything, we were afraid. There were many children, there was a small house, a room and a kitchen, the family is big - my mother and dad were on the bed, and we are all on the floor, and the brother will take a knife and walks around. Mom says: "You are not sleeping. If I get someone, I have this in my head, then I’ll recover."