Some scientists think that yoghurt's predecessor was a fermented milk drink called "kumis".    From Wordnik.com.  [Want to live 100 years? Eat Bulgarian yoghurt] Reference

P = Product&pid = 57 calling kumis alcohol mixed with horse milk is a bit of insult, there's no mixing with alcohol, it gets there naturally, as in bear for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Roasted Blend] Reference

Cold milk and kumis can be had in all these yurtas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

They also make yogurt, kumis and gallons of arequipe there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cheese Run « Unknowing] Reference

One day when I called in passing to drink my kumis, I found the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

A Tatar tribesman tried it that second night — ferocious, drunk on kumis and dangerous with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

They make the popular, mild doble crema cheese, plus yogurt and kumis, and they also bag milk (milk is mostly sold in bags here).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cheese Run « Unknowing] Reference

The friendly proprietor gave us all yogurt or kumis (something that to me tastes much like yogurt) and we thanked him and departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cheese Run « Unknowing] Reference

It was Rushad himself who would bring the opium tincture to the festal hall, late in the proceedings, and see it dispersed among the myriad pitchers of beer and kumis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

The 'strengthening kumis', the ambrosia of the Yakut gods, does not run dry in the wooden vessels, for luxuriant grass covers the ground, and cows and mares give abundant milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

Owing to this consideration I was always offered the best milk and kumis, and when the old woman handed me a jug she carefully wiped it with her fingers first, or removed every trace of dirt with her tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

The national specialty is kumis, fermented mare's milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

My companions raised their glasses of kumis and I followed suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

I started to wonder whether kumis might have hallucinatory qualities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Refusing it when offered may cause you to offend the person making the offer but I can't personally recommend drinking kumis or it cousin shubat made from camel's milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Already the women who had accompanied me were cir­culating among them — ostensibly, to refill their cups with beer or wine or rankly pungent kumis, the fermented mare’s milk favored by the Tatars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

I swallowed, “... if they did, if they hoarded their opium, if the cook who is enamored of Nazneen the Ephesian rendered it into a tincture, and the women of the zenana served it to the garrison in kumis and beer and wine, on the night of the vahmyâcam, when there is bound to be feasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Wine was poured, beer and kumis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]