A new liqueur Trade-Fair Krambambula (alcohol content 20%, sugar 16 g/100 cm³) hit the market.

It is a unique and delicious drink prepared on fresh black-currant fruit drink.

…Starting from school time we remember the fable by Kondrat Krapiva about an old man carting together with his wife to the fair.

We do not know what fair this vivid and cheerful couple was going to visit, but what we know for sure is that in 14-16 centuries a lot of towns in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania got the Magdeburg Right, a right to self-rule: Brest in 1390, Mensk in 1499, and a little later - Grodno, Slutsk, Polotsk, Slonim, Mogilev, etc.

The municipal government in those towns was headed by the Wójt, who worked together with the City Rada consisting of 12 to 20 members. There was a judicial authority on criminal cases called Lava. Everyday issues were solved by burgomasters. It was allowed to build a city hall. Citizens of a self-ruled town obtained a higher status, they became free. The cities having the Magdeburg Right (like Mensk, Polotsk, and Mogilev) were allowed to hold international fairs twice a year, which attracted merchants from all over Europe.

Our cheerful old man seemed to go to the Mensk fair. Let us go with him!

…Be sure to prepare the Rich Merchant cocktail: mix one part of Trade-Fair Krambambula and one part of dry white wine, add ice. Dry wine may be replaced with champagne.