Marskin ryyppy

[1] This practice is said to originate in the Chevalier Guard, where Mannerheim once served, in which every man was entitled to one shot of vodka per day.

[1] The drink was originally created by Mannerheim's adjutant Ragnar Grönvall after the Marshal asked him to do something about the horrible flavour of the low quality vodka available during the Continuation War in the early 1940s.

According to some sources the drink is to be made of: The rights to the trademark Marskin ryyppy belonged to Mikkelin Klubi for a long time.

In the year 1995 they rented the rights to produce Marskin ryyppy to a British company, Allied Domecq, for whom the drink was made by Lignell & Piispanen in Kuopio, Finland.

In November 2005 Mikkelin Klubi announced that they had sold the trademark to an international beverage producer, Pernod Ricard.

A bottle of Marskin ryyppy.
A bottle of Karhuviina (literally: "bear brännvin "), with a quarter of its alcohol content containing sulfites , an example of the low quality vodka sold in the 1940s.