Żubrówka + apple juice anyone?

What is a Polish long drink? Answer: 1 litre of vodka!
But joking aside, mixed drinks did not really get off the ground in Poland until after its independence was regained (1989). To this day many devotees insist that vodka, brandy and other noble tipples are too good to drown in juice or soda.

Be that as it may, one long drink that is graining in popularity in some quarters is cold Żubrówka (bison vodka) and cold apple juice which seem to create a nice symbiosis: 1-2 jiggers of Ż in a tumbler topped up with sok jabłkowy. BTW, did you know Poland is one of the world's top exporters of apple concentrate used in making apple-juice world-wide?

it's called 'tatanka' ...

... or "Szarlotka" - depends where you are.

What about "Polish flags?" made with vodka and malinowy syrup, I think it was. Anyway, it's red.

flagowe...?

first goes juice and then vodka in a shot glass...
i think

yeah, that's a pretty darn popular drink.

yep, after the first shot, you can find me laying under the table... ;)

lol... somehow i doubt it. :) I've shared tatanka? with a few people and now I have to empty the LQ store in Chicago when i go there. lol

i am thinking i heard some other name for this drink though.. no idea what it was though. not sharlotka... hmm

lol ;P


Żubrówka is an 'emergency' drink at my house ;) if there is nothing else, ...


i know it as tatanka...i've never heard somebody calls it szarlotka, but maybe it depends...

Emergency??? You can't let the situation deteriorate to such scandalous situations where there is hardly any booze at home!

As a friend of mine would say to his wife: "no vodka at home and you had a nerve to buy bread instead?" ;)

it's all about wine with me...

It's often called apple pie here in the UK so I guess that's where the szarlotka comes from? Taking my name in vain. Nobody sought my approval for this outrageous act LOL

lol....i know two szarlotkas, it's an apple-pie and a dude from PF... and i can't drink any of them...

Trust me, you're better off with a nice glass (or two) of Cabernet Sauvignon.

i thought so too.... what would you cook to that wine, pie?

zubrowka + apple juice is also sometimes called 'zubry w sadzie' = bisons in orchard :)

But I prefer something called "Made in Poland" it's made of vodka "Gorzka żołądkowa" mixed with Sprite and few fresh cucumber slices, del-ico-us

I still don't know how Polmos Białystok managed to convince not only foreigners but also Poles that Żubrówka is the best polish vodka. Which clearly isn’t the case. :/

Many years ago I liked żubrówka. Then one fateful long afternoon and evening I had a whole bunch of glasses of wine and then someone broke out the żubrówka and I had a few shots and ... I don't think we really need to go into any more details.

To this day the very smell of żubrówka is liable to give me flashbacks .... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I had the same thing with Jack Daniels for more than a decade. But it's me who's to blame for that, not the fine folks in Kentucky. Same goes for your Żubrówka experience.

Everyone raves about Zubrowka with apple juice as if that's the ONLY combination that works.

I've tried this many times and wasn't that impressed.

A better drink is to mix Zubrowka vodka with Kaktus juice (made by Tymbark)

Kaktus is great stuff. I agree, it's a very versatile mixer.

Żubrówka and apple juice is a bandwagon drink. Sb drinks it and everyone hops on board. It's not that good.

Baileys and milk, yummy...

I have some emergency Zubrowka, but there's not much left. But then it's the same amount I have had left for the last six months or so. Isn't apple juice something you drink the morning after? You can't take the hangover cure and the hangover-causer simultaneously, can you?


Have you ever drunk Baileys from a shoe? - Old Greg

yummy and girly...and sweet like hell! :)

Yes, that's why I drink it at home.

Baileys from a shoe, hehehe. Would that be an old brown one?

I can't drink sweet alcohol makes me sick as hell.

I can't drink too much of it either. It's a taste thing more than a get drunk thing. How does Korean food make u feel or haven't u tried it?

That's why I just don't understand alcopops. What's wrong with beer, dry white wine, whisky or (normal) vodka?
Having said that, it's a little easier to drink vodka with some sort of mixer. Even if that mixer is a load of bread and kielbasa.

KIMCHI! It's an acquired taste... I can stomach some of it but not octopus or chicken feet or blood sausage or fish cakes or anchovies with the head.

Kimchi is very tasty. I ate authentic Korean food and I liked it. I ate the modified variety in Japan but it was edible.

The Poles would like kimchi, it's spicy cabbage. U can buy kimchi noodles in Piast.

I think it is funny because I will cook cabbage and kielbasa sometimes and he will not eat it because he "doesn't like cabbage" haha kimchi is yummy smells awful though.