Makin’ Rikia

Hi, all – hope you’re doing well!

A few weeks ago, we went to help make / see how rikia is made. the volunteer I’m replacing – Billy, made this great video about it:

Making Rakia from Billy Knox on Vimeo.

The process is pretty simple – put a bunch of fruit in a barrel for a few months, take the resulting crazy looking mixture, put it in a canaster above a fire, gather the vapor and send it through a tube through cool water to condense it, and the resulting liquid is rikia.

To see more of Billy’s stuff go here, lot’s of great pics of this day of rikia making and lots of other stuff.

Here’s my documentation of the process: