Brännvin

In the Nordic countries, Danish: brændevin, Faroese and Icelandic: brennivín, Norwegian: brennevin, Swedish: brännvin , is an old Nordic term for distilled liquor, generally from potatoes, grain, or (formerly) wood cellulose etc. Beverages labelled brännvin are usually plain and have an alcohol content between 30% and 38%. It can be plain and colourless, or flavoured with herbs and spices, such as Akvavit. The common style of brännvin in Iceland, spiced with caraway – Brennivín, although, not unique to the country, is considered to be Iceland's signature distilled beverage. The word means "burn[t] (distilled) wine", stemming from Middle Low German: bernewin (Old Swedish: brænnevin). It also exists in Dutch: brandewijn and German: Branntwein, gebrannter Wein, ultimately cognate to brandy(wine), also French: brandevin.

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