I remember this drink from the times of the USSR, and I remember for sure that it was cognac. Nearby, if anyone remembers, there was always Pliska, Zlaty Pyaski
meet this "Slynchev Bryag"
Personally, among the cognacs of the USSR, I only drank Armenian Ani ( very expensive for those times), or Chechen Vainakh ( which you won’t find during the day with fire), but it was so rare that I still remember the aroma of each of those cognacs ( I didn’t lose my memory of any royal, although it was this same royal that they drank in decalitres when the Union ended).
And from Slynchev Bryag only the label remained 
Personally, I am sure that then, that today it was a suitable swill from the hydrolysis processing of grape wine, this is, to put it in our language, ordinary moonshine. By the way, it was this moonshine that was patented in the USSR as a method of distilling hydrolytic mash, which is used by all moonshiners in the world. It’s nice, damn it, I’m a professional in drinking moonshine.
Well, let's get back to our three-year-aged brandy moonshine.
They don’t even call it brandy anymore, it’s some kind of alcoholic drink 
The drink is made from wine distillate, which has matured for at least 12 months in an oak barrel with ethyl alcohol, but not less than 3 years. 
Here is the verdict from the manufacturer. But, let’s call this drink Slynchev Bryag brandy, it has a golden color, a pronounced aroma and not at all soft alcohol. No balanced taste of vanilla and dried fruits. Dries harshly with alcohol without any woody notes.
But the drink is good enough in its pure form for discerning lovers of moonshine. The cork will also please you, it’s ours, or rather not ours anymore 
Here in Ukraine it’s hard to find something without a dispenser 
All you have to do is wait until morning and if your head doesn’t hurt, then there’s no better drink...
because for some it is bad because it is harsh, dry and strong, but for others it is good for the same reason.
Personally, I’m both in favor, because it’s a gift!
The Sunny Beach resort (in Bulgarian - Slanchev Bryag) is located 90 km south of Varna and 25 km north of Burgas (Burgas airport is 35 km). The average air temperature in summer is +25...+28 degrees, water temperature is +22...+24. Sunny Beach has a “Blue Flag” for the ecological cleanliness of its beaches, as well as the compliance of sea water with all sanitary and environmental standards.
The beach of Sunny Beach is wide and sandy. In some places, the width of the beach reaches 60 m. The beach has everything you need: umbrellas, beach bars, beach volleyball courts, standard water activities are offered: boat and yacht trips, jet skis, water skiing, paragliding. The sea is calm and shallow, the entrance to the water is gentle, which is ideal for relaxing with small children.
Sunny Beach embankment
There are hotels of all categories in Sunny Beach; there are already more than a hundred of them. Many hotels have been built recently. For young people and supporters of economical holidays, there are 2* hotels offering a basic set of services. Restaurants and cafes are at every step; in the evening you can “have fun” in discos, nightclubs and numerous coastal bars.
Informally:
When choosing Sunny Beach as a holiday destination, you should understand that this is one of the European youth centers of sex and alcohol tourism with all that it implies. This is almost a quote from the Bulgarian media. If the goal is to seek adventure and expand the boundaries of communication, then this is definitely what you need. You can even find a place that is not too noisy to live. There is everything. This is a real resort metropolis. Talking about price levels is pointless. There are also ultra-expensive establishments, and others aimed at budget-conscious tourists. The resort is growing at an unrealistic pace. About 20 years ago there were several dozen hotels in the park area. Now the development is colossal. This is the largest resort on the entire Bulgarian coast.
In addition, here is the Action Water Park - the largest water park on the Bulgarian coast. Just a couple of kilometers from Sunny Beach is the ancient city of Nessebar, a cultural monument protected by UNESCO. It is more than 5 thousand years old, and it captivates all tourists with its original architecture.
Informally:
Despite the fact that Sunny Beach has everything, souvenirs should be bought in Old Nessebar. The choice is huge: souvenir magnets, Bulgarian ceramics, embroidery, all kinds of “hand-made” crafts, wicker bags, CDs with folk music and DVDs with films about Bulgaria. The competition is also incredible, so the prices are extremely low. A souvenir magnet will most likely cost 5-10 times less than at Burgas airport.
During the Soviet Union, summer holidays in Bulgaria were considered prestigious, but getting into the country was not easy. Now times have changed, to travel to Bulgaria you only need to have the appropriate visa. Among the Bulgarian resorts, one of the largest and most famous is Slynchev Bryag, which means Sunny Beach. It is very popular among European youth. The surrounding nature, gentle sea and magnificent clean beaches create excellent conditions for relaxation for families with small children.
History of Sunny Beach
is located 90 km south of Varna. You can get to it from the nearest airport in Burgas by taxi or municipal bus, traveling only 35 km. Sunny Beach is a new district of the oldest European city of Nessebar, founded almost three millennia ago on a small peninsula. It is considered a historical and architectural monument of Bulgaria and is now under the protection of UNESCO.The history of Slynchev Bryag began in 1957, when it was decided to build a resort complex near Nessebar. Its construction began in 1958. The first hotels, parking lots and equipped beaches appeared next to the two wells that supplied Nessebar with drinking water. The resort began to develop especially actively after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It plays a big role in the tourism business in Bulgaria. The infrastructure is updated every year, new hotels, cafes and entertainment complexes appear.
Beaches of Sunny Beach
Slynchev Bryag attracts tourists with its wide sandy beaches. They stretch along the coast for 8 km. In some places their width reaches 60 meters. The beaches are equipped with everything you need for a good rest. They are equipped with sun loungers, umbrellas and sun canopies, there are bars, sports grounds for beach volleyball and football. Among the water activities, vacationers are offered walks on the sea on catamarans, jet skis and banana boats. Those interested can fly with parachutes or go scuba diving.
The Slynchev Bryag resort (photos presented in the article) has a unique microclimate. It is surrounded by the Stara Planina mountains, covered with coniferous and deciduous forests. In summer, the water heats up to 24-25 °C, and the air temperature is 28 °C. The cleanliness of the beaches meets the most stringent requirements and is marked with the Blue Flag, a prestigious award from the International Environmental Fund.
Hotels and restaurants
The beach season at the Slynchev Bryag resort begins in the second half of April. By this time, the hotel base is already ready to receive vacationers. The hotels of the complex can accommodate up to 80 thousand people at the same time. In addition, the city has 35 thousand apartments. Hotel administrations note that most vacationers purchase an all-inclusive package.
There are more than 100 hotels in Sunny Beach, belonging to different categories. Low prices for accommodation in 2* hotels attract students and young people from Germany, England and other European countries. The share of tourists from Russia is about 7% of the total number of vacationers. There are no problems with food in the city; there are cafes and restaurants on every corner.
Slynchev Bryag (Bulgaria) is the most “party” place for young people in Bulgaria. There are night bars and discos here, the most popular clubs being Iceberg and Mania. The city also has expensive hotels and restaurants for wealthy tourists, so each guest chooses what he needs.
Entertainment at the resort
Reviews from travelers about their holidays at the Slynchev Bryag resort are proof that the city has created an entertainment industry.
In addition to numerous themed bars and restaurants, tourists enjoy visiting the ACTION water park. It occupies an area of 36 thousand square meters. meters, which is divided into children's, family and extreme zones. There is also a seating area where you can have a tasty snack. The park features more than 30 types of different slides and water attractions. On the border of Slynchev Bryag and Old Nessebar there is a children's mini-water park with small slides and shallow pools.
In the center of the resort area there is a Luna Park with attractions for children and adults, and on the city embankment there are cinemas showing films in 5D format. In addition to the three-dimensional image, the effect of presence is achieved through movable chairs and various special effects.
Among other entertainments, vacationers are offered ATV rides, jeep safaris, bowling, electric scooter rentals, a variety of bus excursions and much more. On the outskirts of the resort there is a go-kart track and a paintball court. Large companies have an interesting time here.
The cultural program of the Slynchev Bryag center includes the international competition of performers of Bulgarian songs “Golden Orpheus”, restored in 2015, and performances by folklore groups. Classical music lovers attend concerts of symphony orchestras. Various exhibitions and fashion shows are held here every year.
In the post-perestroika era, trips to Bulgaria were popular and cheap.
Now the waiting time for a visa is 2 weeks, and the price in foreign currency is practically no different in value from the currently popular Egypt and Turkey, while losing very much in service...
When I got ready to visit in August 2009 Bulgaria, then in order to maximize savings on travel costs, I decided to get there by bus. If I had known in advance that the journey would take a whole day and a half instead of the promised one day, I most likely would have chosen to fly by plane.
From Kyiv there was a good road only to Odessa, after which potholes, bumps began, and in some places we even drove on a dirt road. I’d better not say anything about the roads of Moldova and Romania, because even ours are not bad compared to them. So in some places it was simply scary to drive. Finally in the morning we reached the border between Romania and Bulgaria, where we wasted almost 2 hours. It was not possible to buy anything in duty; all prices are indicated either in Bulgarian currency or in Romanian currency, and this is in the absence of an exchange office. So we were left without any purchases...
The first city on the route of our bus was Balchik. So at 10 o’clock many passengers on our bus were already happily swimming in the sea. When did we finally get to Sunny Beach, everything was already indifferent. It was already 3 o’clock in the afternoon, considering that in Varna they changed the bus for us, after which some of the tourists traveled for almost two and a half hours while standing...
And by the way, I felt very uncomfortable when on the bus our escort tried to hand everyone a carton of cigarettes. But they are actually expensive in Bulgaria.
And here’s the picture: three o’clock in the afternoon, incredible heat, before that we spent a day and a half in a sitting position... And finally, the hotel. We chose a “C”, simply because “Fives” are incredibly expensive, and “Fours”, in fact, are no different from “Cs”, only in price and the fact that they are located 20 meters closer to the sea. I was very pleased with our hotel, a neat room, only 500 meters to the beach, and located almost in the center of Sunny Beach.
But the Bulgarians disappointed, it was the men, not the women. They are lazy, greedy and cowardly. Tourists are treated like simpletons who need to be profited from. This was the first time I came under such constant pressure - in restaurants, cafes, shops and everywhere else. It's just very unpleasant. Every local always wants to sell you something. And the food in some places is simply disgusting. Grilled chickens are so overcooked that the meat becomes black and crystallized, almost completely bitter, impossible to eat. And the kebabs are burnt and tough; in Bulgaria they are never cooked on the grill, only in the grill, so, by and large, they are not kebabs at all. Strange, but the quality of food did not depend in any way on the pricing policy of establishments of various categories. It got to the point of absurdity when a restaurant charged 2 leva for using ketchup on the table. And in one restaurant the bill included payment for the use of napkins...
The work of exchange offices deserves further outrage. Each one says that there is no commission and the rate is set to sell, not buy. As you know, the purchase rate is always lower, sometimes much lower. But this becomes clear only when you look at the receipt... Or the exchange rate is set at a fairly high rate, but a commission of 10 leva or a percentage of the amount exchanged is taken, most often 10 percent. For those who are in Bulgaria It’s still only the first days and I haven’t yet understood this whole system, the title of honorary simpleton is guaranteed.
But I liked the sea. It is saltier than the Black Sea and “waves” almost every day, so you can ride the waves with pleasure. And the shore is convenient: sandy and flat, where a large number of people are not so annoying.
However, the huge inconvenience of the beach is that most of its territory was filled with sun loungers, on which almost no one was lying. But it was impossible to spread a towel in this area and sit on it. The use of a sunbed is paid - the sunbed itself is 7 leva and also an umbrella 10-15.
Ahead of the stretched rope there was also no place to lie down, because sometimes the area with sunbeds almost reached the sea.
What else is worth mentioning? Yes, it’s worth mentioning what left the most pleasant impression of the entire trip to Bulgaria - visiting the city Neserb, named by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site.
The area occupied by this peninsular city is even less than 500 square meters; it is connected to the coast by a thin crossing of only two lanes, probably an embankment. If you don’t pay attention to the same problems with the Bulgarians, who use any excuse to get drunk, then the city is amazing. Narrow streets, small two-story houses, local national souvenirs... Nice and beautiful.
To sum up the trip and my impressions of Bulgaria – once was enough for me.
The Sunny Beach resort (in Bulgarian Sunny Beach) is an amazing harmony of majestic mountains and gentle sea, the largest international resort in Bulgaria, with a beach stretching for several kilometers, the width of which reaches 120 meters, beautiful fine, golden-yellow sand and clear sea. The entrance to the water is surprisingly flat, the sea near the shore is very shallow, and children, even without knowing how to swim, can splash around in the shallow water to their heart's content. For the cleanliness of the beach and sea, Sunny Beach was awarded the prestigious international Blue Flag award (Blue Flag, a certificate of beach quality established by the European Commission for the Environment and awarded annually to areas based on the results of testing the cleanliness of water and sand). It is conveniently located in a crescent-shaped bay, from the north it is surrounded by the Stara Planina mountain range, the resorts of Elenite, Sveti Vlas, in the south, just behind the natural sand dunes, literally 5 minutes away, on the peninsula, there is the ancient and romantic city - museum of Nessebar, the east is open, and in the early morning the sun rises over the Stara Planina ridge (almost where the mountain dies into the sea), the rays of which are especially beneficial for health. 
Sunny Beach is ideal for a family holiday; a wide variety of entertainment will bring pleasure to you and your children. If you love water sports, the resort has all the conditions for surfing, water skiing, sailing, various banana boats, jet ski rentals, and yacht trips. There are all conditions for tennis, volleyball, mini golf, bowling, bowling, bicycles, and fitness rooms. There are many playgrounds for children with swings, slides and other things; fun games and competitions with prizes and children's discos are often held. For young people 
there are nightclubs, over 250 restaurants (including the attraction restaurants "Caligula", "Khan's Tent" and "Pri Bombata", as well as the popular restaurant "Gianni"), many bars and discos (the most famous: "Mania", " Soho", "Iceberg", "Golden Apple", "Planet", "Azure", "Dulcinea", "Camellia", "Siren"). The largest variety casino in the Balkans is open in Sunny Beach, there are summer and puppet theaters and outdoor cinema areas. In July 2003, in the Sunny Beach resort, on an area of 46,000 sq. meters, one of the largest water parks on the coast opened - the ACTION water park (water park website); - offering more than 30 water attractions (kamikaze, extreme, free fall, Niagara, lazy river, adventure island, etc.) where you can have a wonderful relaxation with the whole family.
Sunny Beach Hotels
On Sunny Beach there are more than 200 hotels along the sea (90% have three or four stars), a large number 
restaurants, taverns, where vacationers can enjoy not only amazing cuisine, but also folklore performances, bars, nightclubs, casinos, discos, cafes - a full range of entertainment for a good mood. Recently, a lot of new hotels have been built, the resort is expanding, roads and supermarkets are appearing (Perla Mladost - open all year round, open 24 hours a day in the summer).
Beaches
The beaches in Bulgaria are all municipal, free, but a sunbed with an umbrella costs money (7 lev umbrella and 7 lev sunbed) Although you can just lie down on your towel or mat - there are more than enough free places, swim and sunbathe, enjoying the sun and sea. The beach is separated from the hotels by a pedestrian street - "Promenade". The beach season lasts from May to October.
Story
The Sunny Beach resort was opened in 1959 (its fiftieth anniversary was recently celebrated). Administratively, Sunny Beach is part of the city of Nessebar, the old part of which is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria. The resort became famous back in the Soviet years; It was prestigious to send children from the USSR and Warsaw Pact countries there. At that time, Bulgaria was almost the only foreign country where it was possible to send children on vacation, since the Iron Curtain existed. Currently, the resort has many modern hotels and apartments for private residence.
Weather
The climate of the Sunny Beach resort is mild, the breath of the sea softens the heat even at its peak 
summer, the average daily temperature in summer is 27 degrees, there is a lot of sun - about 1700 hours, the water temperature is from +20 to +26 degrees, and its salinity is two times lower than in the Mediterranean Sea.
Transport
The distance of the Sunny Beach resort from the international airports of Burgas (Sarafovo district) is 25 km, Varna – 95 km, public transport and taxis are frequent.
Attractions:
The excursion program is quite rich, the famous Shipka Pass, the ethnographic open-air museum Etar, unique Bulgarian monasteries that survived centuries of Ottoman rule. You can go on a trip to the Botanical Garden of Balchik and Cape Kaliakra with an evening folklore show and national cuisine, take a walk around ancient Nessebar, go for two days to 
Sofia and the Rila Monastery, go to the Valley of Roses or the Garden of Frozen Stones. There is a unique opportunity to visit the city “on seven hills”. From Sunny Beach to Istanbul it takes about 6 hours. The excursion program lasts 1-3 days, during which you can see powerful mosques, huge bridges over the Bosphorus and magnificent palaces and museums. Before your trip, be sure to check your Bulgarian visa - it must be double-entry in order to enter Bulgaria from Turkey at the end of the excursion.
