Food & Drink

The Most Interesting Liquor You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

It’s Called Rakija. It’s Huge in Serbia. And You Can Try It for Yourself.

By Sam Eichner ·
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Say you’re in Belgrade.

Random hypothetical, sure, but just stick with us...

Say you’re wandering the streets—sunlight filtering through the trees, ivy gripping the crumbling facades above, pigeons doing pigeon things—and you find yourself thirsting for something stronger than Serbian beer.

Say you stop at a kafana (any old kafana will do).

And at that kafana (it’s like a bar-café hybrid, by the way), a group of weathered gents are sitting around a table, chatting in a strange language and drinking a pale liquor from beaker-shaped shot glasses.


Sam Eichner

Sam Eichner likes literature, reality television and his twin cats equally. He has consistently been told he needs a shave since he started growing facial hair.

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