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  • The family will feed you and share their "airag" with you.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • I noticed that Dushuluun has a penchant for dipping into the airag tipple - a concoction of mare's milk that turns slightly alcoholic as it ferments -- and Tserendulam chewed him out for being intoxicated by 11 a.m.

    Photo Journeys: Alison Wright: March 2008 2008

  • I noticed that Dushuluun has a penchant for dipping into the airag tipple - a concoction of mare's milk that turns slightly alcoholic as it ferments -- and Tserendulam chewed him out for being intoxicated by 11 a.m.

    Photo Journeys: Alison Wright: Mongolia: Altai Mountain Eagle Festival 2008

  • Airag is fermented mare's milk, similar to vodka, except that vodka doesn't have much of a taste, and airag definitely tastes like animal.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Men brought flasks of airag fermented mare's milk and left stumbling drunk but still able to ride like the wind.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRUCE KIRKBY 2010

  • Men brought flasks of airag fermented mare's milk and left stumbling drunk but still able to ride like the wind.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRUCE KIRKBY 2010

  • Men brought flasks of airag fermented mare's milk and left stumbling drunk but still able to ride like the wind.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRUCE KIRKBY 2010

  • From sharing a cup of airag - fermented mare's milk - with a Mongolian nomad family to riding in a rickshaw through an Indian market to listening to chanting monks in a remote monastery in Bhutan, Natural Habitat Adventures 'new Asia360 travel division will provide authentic cultural journeys and inspiring treks throughout the world's largest and most diverse continent.

    unknown title 2009

  • Most Mongolians still practice shamanistic rites like visiting hilltop ovoos (stone cairns), while the traditional alcohol of airag (fermented mare's milk) is available in the supermarket, packaged in plastic bottles.

    Asia Times Online 2009

  • The fermented milk is turned into airag, the national drink.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009

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