{"id":12816,"date":"2015-07-25T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2015-07-25T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:13:13","slug":"cider-and-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/cider-and-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cider and Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/apple-cider-vinegar-diet.jpg\" alt=\"apple-cider-vinegar-diet\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/apple-cider-vinegar-diet.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/apple-cider-vinegar-diet-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the Prohibition era, Americans\u00a0made banned alcoholic drinks from legal fruit.\u00a0Poland is currently brewing legal drinks from banned apples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poland has condemned Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine. Russia has responded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-28603140\">banning the import<\/a> of Poland&#8217;s fruit.<\/li>\n<li>This is a significant blow to Poland&#8217;s farmers, and the ban is\u00a0thought to cost 0.6% of Poland&#8217;s GDP.<\/li>\n<li>Innovative Polish farmers have taken to making cider from their surplus apples, and production has surged from 1.9 million litres in 2013 to 18 million litres in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t the first time that an alcoholic drink has been made from\u00a0a food surplus.\u00a0Bailey&#8217;s Irish Cream was first invented as a way to use up excess milk, by mixing it with whiskey.<\/li>\n<li>This also isn&#8217;t the first time that Poles have brewed alcohol against the wishes of Moscow. During Soviet times the Russians turned \u00a0a blind eye to Polish illicit alcohol production, perhaps because an inebriated population was less likely to rebel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some Polish farmers are hoping to turn the apple growing region around Lublin into a Tuscany-like region for tourists and connoisseurs, except\u00a0for cider. Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/europe\/21659748-when-drinking-national-duty-apples-apples-everywhere\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/europe\/21659748-when-drinking-national-duty-apples-apples-everywhere\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Prohibition era, Americans\u00a0made banned alcoholic drinks from legal fruit.\u00a0Poland is currently brewing legal drinks from banned apples: Poland has condemned Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine. Russia has responded by banning the import of Poland&#8217;s fruit. This is a significant blow to Poland&#8217;s farmers, and the ban is\u00a0thought to cost 0.6% of Poland&#8217;s GDP. Innovative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,75,74,76,77],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-cider","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/apple-cider-vinegar-diet.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12822,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions\/12822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}