Try.” “Yes,” I said. It was still early in the afternoon, but I didn’t want to be impolite and reject an elder Bulgarian’s friendly offer of homemade rakia. Boris poured a tall glass ...

When in the Balkans, you’ve gotta have rakia. The tastes and flavours of all the incredibly delicious food here in Bulgaria is really making us look forward to exploring this cuisine even more.

Join a Belgian traveler on a wild adventure to places most people never visit! Watch as he films unique spots and has awkward (but hilarious) conversations with locals along the way. Expect laughs, ...

If Bulgarian rakia is a little harsh for your tastes, another unorthodox Balkan beverage to sample is pelin: wine, fermented with herbs typically found in absinthe.

But the real star was the rakia list, which features 50 varieties from across the Balkans, from a Serbian one made with raspberry to a Bulgarian one made from quince.

New data released in Bulgaria strongly suggests that the locally produced alcoholic drink rakia may be an efficient cure for the outbreak of E. Coli, which involves a previously unknown strain of ...

Bulgarian archaeologists recently discovered an 11th century fragment of a distillation vessel used for the production of the country's traditional fruit brandy, which is known as rakia.

Bulgaria is seeking to register the alcoholic drink rakia, made of fermented grapes, as a protected designation of origin under Council Regulation 510/2006 on the protection of geographical ...