A historical record shows that vodka has been produced & consumed in Central Europe as early as the 12th century. Before the Russian Bolshevik revolution of 1972, vodka was relatively unknown and unheard of Russia 
and Poland.
The word vodka is said (by the Russians) to have been derived from a Russian term for the distilled spirits – ‘Zhiznennia voda’ or ‘water of life’. Very much a like the latin term ‘aqua vitae’ was used in western Europe for other spirits. The word vodka is believed to be derived from the Russian word ‘voda’ or the polish word ‘woda’, both of which mean approximately the same things. which means ‘dear little water’. It was known that first time vodka was made from whatever raw materials that was plentiful. In the early days distillation were based on wine, not grain, & therefore end result would have resembled a crude brandy rather than a pure spirit that is the vodka of today.
DEFINITION OF VODKA
Vodka may be define as neutral spirit which are distilled and filtered or treated with a charcoal or any other materials so as to be without distinctive character, taste, aroma or colour.
The clear, colourless and tasteless spirit we now know as vodka was first made in a laboratory in St.Petersburg in 1810 when a scientist accidentally discovered that activated charcoal was capable of absorbing fumes, odurs and flavours.
By 1818, a Russian named peter Smirnoff had founded the first distiltery in Moscow and had began to filter grain spirits through charcoal to produce the type of clear, colourless neutral spirit we now known as vodka.
However, attempts to introduced the spirit to the American market did not meet with much success until 1948, by coincidence rather than design. A restaurant owner was trying to introduce ginger beer to the United States. Experimenting with ways to server it, he added vodka and lime juice and named the cocktail Moscow Mule. Its neutral nature lent itself to almost any mixture of juice and soon many vodka-based cocktails were being served all over the nation. Some of these cocktails are still popular today, cocktails like Bloody Mary, Vodka Martini and the Screwdriver.
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