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Kettle One
Mr. Perfect
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Who makes a good Vodka these days? Man, I bought some Kettle one and it tastes like I'm drinking rubbing alcohol.
Some will die in hot pursuit
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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Grey Goose!
I've tried that. It's better thank Kettle One, for sure.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Grey Goose!
+1000 Grey Goose Gibson ..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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W.D.
Dirty little liquor secret.
Most top brands are owned by one corporation.
Kettle One
Ciroc
Smirnoff
Gordon's .... I think
McCormick .... I think
Funny how a company keeps their name off the bottles.
Branding.
http://www.diageo.com/en-row/Pages/default.aspx
Dirty little liquor secret.
Most top brands are owned by one corporation.
Kettle One
Ciroc
Smirnoff
Gordon's .... I think
McCormick .... I think
Funny how a company keeps their name off the bottles.
Branding.
uummm....thats not really a secret. just because they have the same parent company doesnt make them the same product.
inbev owns over 200 beer brands, the majority of the mainstream beer market.
It's the one that tastes like vodka. All the others are 'hint of pepper' or 'just a whisper of ostrich feather'.
It's rotten potatoes. It's like asking if jaegermeister is a premium version of rotten cabbage. I guess so.
Smirnoff is the standard in my experience.
It's the one that tastes like vodka. All the others are 'hint of pepper' or 'just a whisper of ostrich feather'.
It's rotten potatoes. It's like asking if jaegermeister is a premium version of rotten cabbage. I guess so.
the vast majority of the vodkas on the market are grain, not potato(including your smirnoff). of the thirty or so vodkas we have in my store, precisely zero are potato(which i actually prefer over grain based vodka).
there are only a few potato vodkas that i can get. other markets may have more, but they are solidly in the minority.
$18.00 here in OH; $12.00 in KY for the 1.75 liter.
Now you know why I make a road trip once a year!!
Actually, I like Skyy if I'm out.
Domestic? Smirnoff. Economy? Platinum 7XXX.
absolut is good, as is Skyy. Belvedere is good, too, but somewhat overpriced.
It seems, that almost all Vodka bottled in the US is 100% undenatured grain alcohol and then cut with de-mineralized water to the correct proof. It then is filtered through granularized and powdered charcoal during the bottling process. It is the same for all brands!
If your brand of Scotch Whiskey is bottled in the US, it is brought over in what looks like a metal beer keg at between 125 and 160 proof (usually at the higher proof) and is reduced to 80 or so proof with de-mineralized water, filtered and then bottled. By bringing the whiskey on drums at high proof, the bottler saves a considerable amount of money. Adding domestic alcohol to improve the proof of imported booze is forbidden under Federal law.
So, save your top shelf Vodka bottles and refill them at home with brand X Vodka. Even your most sophisticated guests will not be able to tell the difference-especially if you pre-chill it in your freezer and serve it so cold it hurts the fillings in your teeth (Polish and Russian style).
By the way, why not try a drink called the Polish Flag. Take a water tumbler, preferably one of those barrel shaped ones and fill it 1/2 way with freezing cold high octane Vodka (at least 120 proof). Then carefully float spiced (salt, pepper & Worcester sauce)tomato juice on top to fill up the glass. Then drink it down in one gulp!
It's ok to burp afterwards.
Vodka is supposed to be made from potatoes- like Stoli and a few others from Eastern Europe. Most of the ones made in the US are made from Everclear type grain alcohol mixed with water and vodka flavoring- which is why some of them taste like rubbing alcohol- because that's what they are.
hate to burst your bubble. stoli(my favorite grain vodka) is grain just like everybody else. its not even russian anymore. latvia. havent noticed a degredation in quality though.
chopin is just about the only potato vodka i know i can get. while there are plenty of potato vodkas in existence, few of them are imported into the states and even fewer are available in all markets.
Chopin is prolly the best I have had.
I only have 100+/- brands of vodka in my stores, so I may be a little off[;)]
All US vodkas are distilled until they are nearly pure alcohol, then (usually) diluted, because that's what a liquor has to be, in order to be called vodka.
You could make USDA vodka from anything which had alcohol in it.
I think they use winelees or wine lots which didn't work out, in some places.
In some parts of Europe the word "vodka" may refer to a distilled drink with more flavors from the original ferment remaining.
Edit: you cannot distill alcohol from water purer than about 96 percent. You need a different process. So when the vodka is stilled to 95%, all you have is alcohol and a bit of water.
No one mentioned Barton or Heaven Hill. Damn yuppies. [:D]
Barton vodka-the very best vodka 12 bucks a half gallon can buy!!!![:D]
So, save your top shelf Vodka bottles and refill them at home with brand X Vodka. Even your most sophisticated guests will not be able to tell the difference-especially if you pre-chill it in your freezer and serve it so cold it hurts the fillings in your teeth (Polish and Russian style).
My thoughts exactly!
I've been refilling the same Grey Goose bottle for 10 years, with 100 proof Smirnoff. Every "vodka lover" that comes to my house raves about how smooth the Grey Goose is, and then thank me for sharing my expensive vodka with them, I just smile. [;)]
quote:Originally posted by forkliftking
No one mentioned Barton or Heaven Hill. Damn yuppies. [:D]
Barton vodka-the very best vodka 12 bucks a half gallon can buy!!!![:D]
Have you had Aristocrat?
You can really tell the difference, but of course, if you drink it fast enough, you won't know or care.
quote:Originally posted by searcher5
quote:Originally posted by forkliftking
No one mentioned Barton or Heaven Hill. Damn yuppies. [:D]
Barton vodka-the very best vodka 12 bucks a half gallon can buy!!!![:D]
Have you had Aristocrat?
Is it 12 bucks a half gallon?
I really like grey goose straight from the freezer, but my tastes overload my budget on goose. Rue33 is a short step under goose and half the price, its my weekend go to vodka.
Its worth the extra money.
$12.40
Its worth the extra money.
I don't know, man, you can buy a lot of other stuff for 40 cents. Them 40 cents add up! 'fore you know it, you got enogh fer some zig zags, or some blunts.
Maybe some of them there peach seegars!!!!
quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
$12.40
Its worth the extra money.
I don't know, man, you can buy a lot of other stuff for 40 cents. Them 40 cents add up! 'fore you know it, you got enogh fer some zig zags, or some blunts.
Maybe some of them there peach seegars!!!!
I was assuming that you were like me. And took at least two days to go through a half gallon.
You're right. If you're drinking a half or more a day, you are going to have to give up buying a couple of loose cigarettes at the convenience store every few days.
The damn powerball went to $2 minimum. So that would be at risk.
529 will be underfunded and LTC premium isn't going to get paid either.
(but it sure is tasty if you can squeeze out the extra coin)[;)][:D][:D]
Is there a plasma center near you?
quote:Originally posted by searcher5
quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
$12.40
Its worth the extra money.
I don't know, man, you can buy a lot of other stuff for 40 cents. Them 40 cents add up! 'fore you know it, you got enogh fer some zig zags, or some blunts.
Maybe some of them there peach seegars!!!!
I was assuming that you were like me. And took at least two days to go through a half gallon.
You're right. If you're drinking a half or more a day, you are going to have to give up buying a couple of loose cigarettes at the convenience store every few days.
The damn powerball went to $2 minimum. So that would be at risk.
529 will be underfunded and LTC premium isn't going to get paid either.
(but it sure is tasty if you can squeeze out the extra coin)[;)][:D][:D]
Is there a plasma center near you?
sarcasm, son, sarcasm. I thought it would be apparant without the green italics.
The process may look the same to one guy on the line but there may be differences he didn't see.