Local vodka to hit store shelves
 

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/m...15_120401_5744


PEMBERTON (NEWS1130) - We have locally crafted beer, hundreds of delicious wines from the Okanagan and now B.C.'s first homegrown vodka. Pemberton Distillery's Schramm Vodka is made from organic potatoes grown just a few stone throws away from the operation.

Tyler Schramm says, unlike mass produced vodkas you've seen on store shelves, this one is different, "We're only double distilling our vodka and through doing that, we're maintaining a bit of character and flavour, which makes it when you sip it, it tastes like no other vodka, it defintely has an aroma you don't get from other vodkas."

Making a single malt whiskey is next on Schramm's list of projects.

Is it available at all liquor stores? or only the signature ones?

the next question is, is that flavour any good?

I'm intrigued to try it, but $50 is pricey for vodka.

Interested in the Single Malt.

i wonder if it is comparable to grey goose

^ lol.. More like a rougher smirnoff probably

goose is so smooth because it's distilled so many times, even smirnoff is done 4-5 times I belive, this is more of a sipping vodka for flavour, which I doubt will catch on

I read somewhere that if you take any regular cheap vodka and run it through coffee filters it becomes much smoother due to removing impurities which are generally removed in a multiple distilling process
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i heard you can use those brita filters to distill vodka, but after a couple of times it messes the distiller up

I thought that the more distilled the better/ finer. I also thought that the less scent the vodka had, the more pure it was.

So the way the guy explained this vodka, makes it sound like overpriced garbage. I will probably try it once though lol

Grey Goose is all marketing, and is designed for pussies who can't stand the taste and burn of alcohol but wanna look baller and get shitfaced. Established in 1997 with no history or reputation, it is the Miley Cyrus of alcohol; 100% marketing.

If anybody's interested, here is a great article on the creation of Grey Goose: http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfin...eatures/10816/

Chopin vodka is widely known to be one of the best; it is also a potato vodka as compared to wheat which most other vodkas are made from. Potato vodka usually have a different aroma than wheat vodkas most drinkers are used to.

potato alcohol stemmed from ppl who couldnt even afford garbage so ur right :)

Tested on Mythbusters

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/04/e...red_up_vo.html

Top shelf filtration

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

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amen to that... Chopin, Pravda, Wyborowa single estate and Ciroc are good. For a cheaper flavored vodka, try Pearl. Pearl is about 25 bux a bottle and comes in a bunch of flavors. It's good bang for the buck and much better than the Absolut and Smirnoff crap.

Any place locally I can find Pearl? They are not listed on BC Liquor Store website. Do they have non-flavoured ones?

I like Iceberg Vodka, from Newfoundland, for cheap vodka.

Iceberg is constantly ranked amongs the best tasting

when I worked at a club downtown our rail vodka was polar ice, I don't mind it at all
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lol i dont like polar ice, reminds me of the police on the boxes

hahah, agreed 100%

best vodka is ukrainian, russian, polish

^Word & word

Belvedere is pretty good vodka, i got a bottle of some Belvedere Intense from heathrow airport, pretty good booze 50%, 100 proof premium vodka i had no complaints

http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/e...se-low-res.jpg

Żubrówka is also good stuff, it has bison grass in it. http://www.bcliquorstores.com/product/462440