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  • an alcoholic beverage made from distilled, fermented mare's milk, among the Mongol Buryats of Siberia.

    Apart from being the national drink of Buryatia, it is also used by the Buryats in their religious ceremonies. The Buryat and his tarasun have been compared to a Scotsman and his whisky... It is described as a form of "milk whisky".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasun

    cf. kumis

    June 17, 2025