Searching for Moonshine in Post-War Bosnia 🇧🇦
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Join me as I travel to this beautiful town in southeastern Bosnia as I hunt for the magical nectar of the Balkans: rakija. Along the way, I learn about Goražde's dark past and meet some of its resilient people.
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0:00 A Bosnian Bus Ride
4:03 War Memorials
11:20 The Sock Lady
23:36 Hunting for Rakija
33:21 Never Give Up
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Bro your a legend. I love the fact your walking around and actually showing a different side of Bosnia and not like these majority of TH-camrs who just end up in Sarajevo and Mostar. They dont show anything else about the country.
And you actually interact with the locals aswell which is awesome.
Greetings from a Bosnian Down Under 🇧🇦 🇦🇺
Cheers mate, thanks for watching and for your kind words :)
and he also knows a lot about history of area...i love it
Ive never seen any TH-camr going in Gorazde, for example this time, or in any of tuhis places in Batkans that you visited! Im learning from you abouth the country ive been born. well done! thank you, and i much apprichiate job you are doing! (Sorry for my bad spelling, but i never learned english in school, only by listening)
Glad I could show gorazde to you, it’s a really beautiful place! No worries on the English spelling, I spell things wrong all the time :) Pozdrav!
I love absolutely every video from you, thank you for this passion
I’m happy you enjoy, thanks for watching!
@BenTheRules your welcome 😉 I wrote you on Instagram but no reply 😞
Nice lady that you had talked with. Thank you Ben. Nice video!!!!
Such an interesting video. Great job!
thank you brother 😎
I find learning the language easy with you because you speak then captions in English I love that. Great videos new subscriber , I hope in future you show more of the food
Thanks!
Benjamin you becoming Bosnian 100% with that learning Bosnian Language 🫡🤩🤩👍 im really happy for you bro
hvala, pozdrav!
Dear Bosnian language does not exist!!
@@goranzekaj943 Dear, stop eating shit so much in youtube comments, youve clearly lost brain cells otherwise you would know the Bosnian dictionary came 200 years before a Serbian one. Maybe look into what Vuk Karadžić borrowed from the Bosnian language?
@@goranzekaj943 we know it doesn't exist just google it and you will find all answers, ti Zli mali Servine rodjen od Kuje truhle ❤ Servi-Sluge to je vama najgore os svega sto nikad necete biti uspijesni lijepi i pametni poput Bosnjaka i Hrvata, vi ste Ciganika teska pogledaj se u ogledalo Truhlo smrdljivi ❤
lol bosnian language...thats like saying i speak canadian haha...no such thing as bosnian people or language.
Nice Job Man!
Thank you Ben much appreciated
Odlican video i konačno si rekao "prijatno"😄👏You communicate with people really well. Continue to show towns and cities on foot. It is interesting to see it from a foreigner.
Yes I finally learned how to use prijatno correctly, took long enough 😂 Thanks for watching!
Love all of your videos bro! Especially the ones in Bosnia 🇧🇦 hope you get to visit the city in from one of these days it’s called Teslic, I haven’t been there in so long but it’s an absolutely beautiful place!
Still remember the food they gave me in Međugorje in 2010... šir, šunka, vino... Everything was homemade and so tasty, i mean as real food not the processed stuff you usually find in big cities and as a country man i felt at home.😊
I was recently near Medugorje (video coming soon) and they had so much great homemade stuff
@@BenTheRules i'm glad to read that, now i'm curious to see the next video and the places i've been!
Best rakija is in the Prijedor-Banjaluka area and I say that as a Hercegovac so I am not biased. You won't find much of it in Bosniak dominated areas because we are mostly Muslims and while many of us still do have a drink every now and then it is frowned upon to actually make the alcohol in areas where Bosniaks are the majority. You might find a Serb or a Croat who makes it in those areas but very few Bosniaks...
Ben, you might be interested in Joe Sacco's graphic novel, Safe Area Gorazde, which is a great and beautiful read. It's about the war, but so much too about the city, its people and its struggle.
just read the first few pages online, gonna order a hard copy asap, thanks for putting me on
Good luck finding anything in that smog! xD
I have bought rakija, fig jam and honey in Medjugorje... and all the villages around it.
I went near there recently and found all kinds of cool stuff, it’ll be in my next video :)
Dude I like your Bosnian adventures I hope u can come in the summer its even more Beautiful I hope u enjoy svaka ti cast you speak really good im really surprised Bosnian is not easy
Hvala tebi! I should hopefully be able make a trip or two this summer
To complete the list of products that are much better done homemande than buying them at a store: Ajvar (for me personally best balkan food product), All sorts of Jams (especially from plum and apricot), different variants of cheese, Kajmak especially, all sorts of hams and dried meat, honey... then also main dishes like Pasulj, Sarma and all sorts of Pita
Absolutely. Not to spoil the next video but I had a lot more success in Herzegovina finding good homemade stuff
Thats a good list and correct 😂
Put the tittle "The best moonshine, but it's not what you think" for algorithms you will get better traction
Happy Saturday
You too have a great day 😎
Fantastic,nice .
ok, my friend, for good rakija, sljivovica and other fruit kind brandies, go to the north, city called Gradačac. Every year they have an expo which is build around single fruit, plum. good luck on your journeys.
see if you can find apricot brandy (rakija), quince as well, those are really great ones, if they are made by masters, and Gradačac have them for sure. cheers.
Thanks for the info, i'll check it out
@@BenTheRules August or September are the rakija months in Gradacac and Tuzlanski kanton.
Dont go to Visegrad i will be there this summer, i was born there i will show you around town. I also have a lot of Rakija for you . good job and thank you.
nice, go to visoko and go inside the pyramids
sounds spooky.... but in all seriousness I will go to the pyramids someday
@@BenTheRules you will love it plus the mystic and enegery there is very uniq, only place in the world like that, pyramid is still active it's healing 💪
Yes go explore the Bosnian pyramids good idea
Nisi morao traziti domacu rakiju po kucama, imao si kupiti tu u kafani odmah pored autobuske stanice. A i u jos nekim kafanama ima da se prodaje domaca rakija. Trebao si pitati vise ljudi ono sto te zanima. Pozdrav
Kako je Potjeh tražio rakiju 👍 😃
just go to the serbien side 100% there is rakija
Hahaha ova zena je tako smiješna,a Ben ti dobro pricas Bosanski,i dobri su ti sagovornici
Hahaha ona je bila zanimljiva, posebno kako miješa bosanski i njemački
Ne znam sta je tu smijesno! Zena otvorila srce.
Wrong, my friend, the best brandy is where the most plums are grown, namely Brcko and Gradacac, those two cities produce more plums than the whole of Bosnia, even if we are talking about plum brandy. Greetings
Nice I’ll have to check it out, I’ve been planning to go to Brcko for awhile so I’ll see if I can make it happen. Pozdrav!
Are Bosnian pyramids in Visoko on your tour list? 🔼
I will inevitably make a trip to the pyramids someday, yes :)
@@BenTheRules awesome, I'd like to see your video and impression on those, it will be ace :) Semir Osmanagić, the founder guy, seams like a very interesting man. I planned to visit the pyramids. Also, hopping to see your video on Travnik, as it is in my visiting schedule. Cheers.
Die Dame spricht beide Bosnisch und Deutsch. Sie verwechselt die beiden Sprachen auch bisschen. Scheint mir so dass sie schon lange Zeit in Österreich geblieben hat
I think since I’m not a native Bosnian speaker, she thought I would understand better if she spoke German.. that was not the case though 😂
@@BenTheRules Got you, so u also speak German!?
No not at all, I was pretty lost when she was mixing the languages. I know a few phrases of German from when I used to live in Switzerland. But I lived in the French part so I was only exposed to it when I went to other parts of the country
@@BenTheRules I noticed that many people in your videos tried to speak German to you. It is because the places you visited have a large diaspora in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking Switzerland. I guess that younger people living in larger cities have tried English on you. Next time this happens, just tell them: "Ne razumem nemacki, vas jezik razumem mnogo bolje "
Don’t say “babushka”. Nobody ever says that there. That term does not exist in the Balkan region. That’s Russian.
I only use babuska because everyone knows what it means. Plus I have heard multiple words for grandmother in balkanski so I’m not even sure what the right thing to say would be… what is the best word to use in that case???
@@BenTheRulesyou say Baba in Christian areas.
@@BenTheRules Yes, there are multiple words for grandma. “Baka” or “Baba” are the words used mainly among Serbs and Croats. Bosniaks mostly use the term “Nana” with different variations of that word such as Nena, Nane depending on the region. Than, Bosnisks also use the term “Majka” or “Stara Majka” in some regions. There’s even a term “Bika” in the eastern Bosnia.
@@BenTheRules You would say ''baka'' or ''nana''. It is right that noone ever uses Babushka in here, the word is non-existent basically. That is Russian. You can say whatever though, I'm sure we will understand. Keep up the good work and thanks bro.
Have you gone to Republika Srpska or just the Federation?
Haven’t spent much time in Srpska but I plan on going when I’m back in the region this spring/summer
@@BenTheRules glad to hear
@@BenTheRules it's all the same . bosna i hercegovina je bio naziv te republike u vrijeme jugoslavije ( kada je bilo kakav oblik nacionalizma prakticki bio kazneno djelo ) ,ali se kolokvijalno nazivala Bosna .. ove podjele na federaciju i srpsku bi trebao pokusat ignorirati barem ti kao stranac...jer za tebe zaista nema razloga da padas pod te nacionalisticki motivirane gluposti.Bosna i hercegovina, tj. Bosna je jedna drzava...i puuuuuno bi im bolje bilo kada bi se i oni sami tako ponasali i tako svoju zemlju dozivljavali...meni je cisto zao ( iako sa bosnom nemam nikakve bitne veze ) ,i zalosno, sto takva lijepa,bogata zemlja,u kojoj zive vrijedni ,marljivi i sposobni ljudi , prolazi ovoliko lose...a vjerujem kako su upravo te podjele razlog sto bosna stagnira,ili cak propada....zalosno je sto mladi ljudi odlaze iz bosne,kada im ona sama pruza puno vise od zemaja zapadne europe. ...za primjer uzimam poljoprivrednu proizvodnju, stocarstvo , i preradu voca,povrca,zitarica i mesa.
Hey Ben, make a few episodes about Seveah, it is a music direction specific for Bosnia no one does it else in the world it is our kind of a Soul Music that is telling the stories from the pas usually about love and suffering but it's like true songs singing about specific event that took place back in the days etc...
Odi u Piramude Visoko its great tour
Regarding Rakija (which a general term for all destil spirts on Balkan and I think you rather are searching for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz which the one made from the plumbs), I would guess you find it more in the villages with majority orthodox population rather than muslim (they dont drink that much, partially religious reasons ).. but I might be wrong nowadays, havent visited in a long time :)
I think to some extent that's true, I know some muslims from Bosnia who don't drink, but I also know plenty who do :)
@BenTheRules
Yes, it's true, but people who don't drink alcohol are religious,and they believe in God
@@el.zu.6571 hard to tell that they dont believe, maybe they are just not strickt
Odi ti u Krajinu tamo ima svega