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[[File:Kumys-bottle.jpg|thumb|Olympian Slozo, the best known brand of Slozo|150px|right]] | [[File:Kumys-bottle.jpg|thumb|Olympian Slozo, the best known brand of Slozo|150px|right]] | ||
'''Slozo (驴奶)''' is an alcoholic beverage made from a mixture of fermented mare's milk usually harvested from the wooly | '''Slozo (驴奶)''' is an alcoholic beverage in [[Daxia]], it is made from a mixture of fermented mare's milk usually harvested from the wooly Daxian donkey and ethanol. Its a very popular drink but especially in the countryside where production is artisanal and limited in scope. [[Imperial Slozo]] is the largest national producer and has established a number of large production plants. It commercializes the drink with the name of Olympian Slozo | ||
===History=== | ===History=== | ||
The production and consumption of Slozo in [[ | The production and consumption of Slozo in [[Daxia]] dates back to the prehistoric era when the domestication of donkeys took place. Archeologists have found many examples of ancient milk drinking bowls, jugs and milking pails in the sites of the Taunga culture. The milk drawn from the donkey's udder would then be placed inside animal skins and left to ferment, while another portion might be churned with a stick and turned into a butter like substance. At this stage in its development, Slozo would not be an alcoholic drink. The traditions of Slozo making clearly made out of Old Night into the Shang era and beyond. | ||
With the advent of rice and cane based alcohols, which were usually drinks of the middle and upper classes, Slozo was left as a niche weaker drink for the poorer classes, made only in small batches by local farmers. It is during the Shang era when the alcoholic properties of corn based ethanol were discovered and the adding of ethanol to Slozo began. The resulting alcoholic content made it comparable to the other beverages of the time. The recurrence of droughts and the resulting limits on the planting of rice due to its high water consumption led to the greater planting of corn and thus ethanol. Alcoholic Slozo became a much more widely consumed drink around the late 600's. The Thrice Cursed War that caused the downfall of the Shang dynasty and caused decades long devastation and disruption to agricultural production almost marked the death knell of slozo. Production of slozo and other alcoholic drinks only stabilized during the mid Chen dynasty as order was restored and trade routes to [[Rusana]] and [[Duamacia]] which brought alternate sources of corn to the empire were reopened. | With the advent of rice and cane based alcohols, which were usually drinks of the middle and upper classes, Slozo was left as a niche weaker drink for the poorer classes, made only in small batches by local farmers. It is during the Shang era when the alcoholic properties of corn based ethanol were discovered and the adding of ethanol to Slozo began. The resulting alcoholic content made it comparable to the other beverages of the time. The recurrence of droughts and the resulting limits on the planting of rice due to its high water consumption led to the greater planting of corn and thus ethanol. Alcoholic Slozo became a much more widely consumed drink around the late 600's. The Thrice Cursed War that caused the downfall of the Shang dynasty and caused decades long devastation and disruption to agricultural production almost marked the death knell of slozo. Production of slozo and other alcoholic drinks only stabilized during the mid Chen dynasty as order was restored and trade routes to [[Rusana]] and [[Duamacia]] which brought alternate sources of corn to the empire were reopened. | ||
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