Kilju
Finnish home made alcoholic beverage / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Sugar wine" redirects here. For the presence of sugar in wine, see Sugars in wine.
This article is about a traditional Finnish drink. For the county in North Korea, see Kilju County.
Kilju (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkilju]) is the Finnish word for home made alcoholic beverage typically made of sugar, yeast, and water.
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The ABV is around 15–17%, and since it does not contain a sweet reserve it is completely dry. Crude fermented water may be distilled to moonshine. Kilju for consumption is clarified to avoid wine fault, it is a flax-colored liquid with no discernible taste other than that of ethanol; an alcoholic beverage used as an ethanol base for drink mixers.