Authors : Cem Zeren, Zeki Aydin, Zafer Yonden and Serbay Bucak
Abstract: Illegal alcohol consumption is one of the important public health problem in Turkey/Hatay, same as in the world. Researchers investigated the compositions of The Turkish traditional homemade raki is called Bogma raki which produced from grapes, figs or plums by GC/MS System. Commercial products and Bogma raki samples were analyzed for the amounts of ethanol, methanol, 1-propanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol, 2-methyl-1-propanol (isobutanol) and 3-methyl-1-butanol (isoamyl alcohol). The highest alcoholic strengths were ranged from 21-71% vol. in the illegal alcohols while the commercial alcohols had a very uniform alcoholic strength around 41.5% vol. Additionally most of the samples contained detectable amounts of trans-anethole, isoamyl alcohol, butanol and 1-propanol. Compared to commercial raki samples we have found substantial differences in the amounts of methanol, higher alcohols and toxic effects of homemade alcoholic beverages. Researchers conclude that this study is giving us significant data about the volatile components of illegal alcoholic beverage, Bogma raki in this region.
Cem Zeren, Zeki Aydin, Zafer Yonden and Serbay Bucak, 2012. Composition of Bogma Raki, Turkish Traditional Alcoholic Beverage. Journal of Food Technology, 10: 87-91.