Posted: 6/14/2008 12:04:32 PM EDT
So I have a cheap bottle of vodka and I just opened it. This stuff smells like frickin' varnish. Goes well in lemonade though(sugarfree low carb lemonade ).
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Mythbusters is wrong about a lot of things. They claimed that you can't prevent a car from starting by plugging its exhaust. |
Myth: You can turn low-end vodka into top-shelf vodka with six filtrations of a domestic charcoal water filter (i.e. Brita filters) They set up the experiment so that the vodka testers would each get 8 shots of vodka: 6 from the filtration stations (single filtered, twice filtered, etc...), 1 top-shelf vodka, and 1 unfiltered low-end shot. The tasters were asked to rank the shots. The tasters were: Anthony Dias Blue, vodka expert, executive director San Francisco World Spirits Competion Jamie, degree in Russian literature Kari, former undercover martini tester Kari: "I'm wondering if you might have contaminated your experiment by mixing on the mustache" Jamie: "either that or they're actually very sensitive and able to pick up on subtle variations in the chemistry in the vodka" Kari was a terrible judge, giving a much higher score to the unfiltered cheap vodka than the top-shelf vodka: Kari's worst: 3rd filtration Kari's second worst: top shelf Kari's third best: the cheap, unfiltered vodka Jamie was a better judge: Jamie's second worst: the cheap, unfiltered vodka Jamie's second best: fifth filtration Jamie's best: top shelf Anthony showed off his tasting skills: his ranking corresponded exactly to the number of filtrations, with the top-shelf vodka picked as the best. Anthony: "Passing a low-end vodka through a filter will make it better, but it won't make it a top shelf vodka" They analyzed the vodka samples and found that there was no difference in chemical composition between the filtered vodka and the unfiltered vodka. You're better off buying the top-shelf stuff than wasting a bunch of water filters. busted |
Looks fancy. Doesn't even have a plastic bottle! 
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Yeah, my shitty vodka almost cost 20 bucks for a 750mL. |
Come on down and stay with me for a weekend, we will drink good cheap vodka, shoot expensive ammo and ride around around on $4 per gallon gasoline. Danny 
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$4 gallon gasoline! OMGz! It's actually like $5.11/gallon here. Yay, let's tax the oil companies some more so we can get lower gas prices  . Stupid liberals.ETA: All my page 2 are belong to me.
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I bought a Brita just for this reason. The key is activating the fiter media with water prior to filtering. You can SEE the difference as the oily swirls diminish after the first filtering, but no additional benefits are gleaned after three filterings.I was filtering Smirnoff red label, so I wasn't starting with shitty vodka. Three filterings of 1.75lt takes about 40 minutes.There was no detectable loss in volume. It really isn't worth it to me, I just buy Tito's or more recently Dripping Springs($29.22/1.75lt with tax), and spend my time more wisely(drinking it instead of fucking with it,although this seems to be the ARFCOM way to shoot it a little and fuck with it alot  )
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Holy fuck. I don't really drink vodka, but the cheapest Gin I will drink (Gordon's) is only $9-11 or so for 750ml. Tanqueray is $20. |
Yup, that sucks. For $20 I can get a 1.75L of Smirnoff triple distilled. Not great vodka but a hell of a lot better than some of the cheap crap mentioned in this thread.
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