# the man who created vodka
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875
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**Created:** [September 10, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875 "2008-09-10T22:09:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/1 "2008-09-10T22:09:16Z")
is my homie :ohnoes :banana :giggedy
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### Author:  [@JiM\_P\_2001](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JiM_P_2001)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/2 "2008-09-10T22:10:14Z")
> [@slwrthnu](#):
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> is my homie :ohnoes :banana :giggedy
Then who’s the man that got you your last drink at Sutters?
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### Author:  [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/3 "2008-09-10T22:16:20Z")
> [@JiM P 2001](#):
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> Then who’s the man that got you your last drink at Sutters?
my lover ;D
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### Author:  [@Allstar\_Graphics](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Allstar_Graphics)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/4 "2008-09-11T04:36:05Z")
wierd. sooooo i just got the text message driving to work this morning, haha i got home and fell right to sleep pretty much
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### Author:  [@JiM\_P\_2001](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JiM_P_2001)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/5 "2008-09-11T04:45:38Z")
I almost got in a fight with the bartender because he wouldn’t give me 3 beers at once… He turned out to be pretty cool, I want to get a bunch of people together there on Wed nights again…
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/6 "2008-09-12T10:05:40Z")
in before wat
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### Author:  [@Jimmerz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimmerz)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-man-who-created-vodka/238875/7 "2008-09-12T22:13:26Z")
Vodka has been an integral part of the Russian economy for centuries. Yet, in its current form, it is only a bit more than one hundred years old.
The origins of vodka (and of its name) cannot be traced definitively, but it is believed to have originated in the grain-growing region that now embraces Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. It also has a long tradition in Scandinavia.
Little is known about the early history of the drink in Europe. The first written record of vodka in Poland dates from 1405 in the Sandomierz Court Registry. In Russia, the first written usage of the word vodka in an official document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Catherine I of June 8, 1751 that regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.
:ninja