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A good half of your vodka brands are just repackaging ADM or the local equivalent farm waste ethanol with water local to the bottling location (and maybe extra
by fl0wenol 12y ago
A good half of your vodka brands are just repackaging ADM or the local equivalent farm waste ethanol with water local to the bottling location (and maybe extra distillation or filtering passes if you're lucky).
It's the bottled water business model, but swankier.
Even Hangar One, a favorite of mine, is at least half neutral grain spirit from industrial farms. Thankfully they re-distill it with pot-distilled grape vodka, which rounds it out (no rubbing alcohol flavor).
- tptacek 12y agoDave Arnold on Cooking Issues tells a story from when he ran the tech program at the French Culinary about buying pure potable lab ethanol and diluting it down himself for "perfect" vodka at a tiny fraction of the price. Vodka sucks, is the moral of that story.