kvass
- n fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley
- If you come to tell me that Italian macaroni is better than Russian kvass you don't show much eagerness to reach an agreement.
- Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast.
- He quits, plants himself by the table, sighs, and sets himself to his kvass.